The Secret Witness Quotes

“A child ignored by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth. —African proverb”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“toxic blood is not thicker than water.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“What are you so happy about?” she said. “Just a nice day.” “It’s a hundred and seven.” “Better than freezing.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“You get up, eat, sleep, use the litter box, eat, sleep, chase ghosts and laser pointers, and eat again. Is that the secret to happiness? Don’t think about anything, just live in the present?”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“Several decades ago, a study had found that labeling children as criminals changed their self-image. Children filled the role of the titles shoved on them.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“The rich are boring. All their cases are either greed or lust, which I suppose are the same thing. We have to keep ourselves entertained in our careers as we get older, don’t we?”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“I realized something: I had done everything I could. There was nothing for me to feel guilty about. I did my job, and the outcome was out of my hands. You did what you could. You can’t ask yourself to do more than that.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“Solomon felt a shard of fear and got angry at the fear. But he swallowed it down and didn’t show anything on his face.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“think the goal of life is to change money for time, not time for money. Because we all run out of time first. People don’t realize that and waste their lives, and by the—excuse the pun—time they figure it out, it might be too late.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“That anybody could get their men to fear them, but only real leaders could get their men to love them.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“Solomon leaned against the wall. He noticed a couple of the prosecutors looking at his cane, and he held it between his hands, lightly tapping the tip on the carpet. A young prosecutor, a kid with shaggy brown hair and a disheveled suit, offered him a seat. “Prefer to stand, thanks. I can sneak out of here faster if I need to.” “Not a fan of meetings, huh?” “Let’s just say there was a lotta Angry Birds played at the meetings I used to attend.” “Angry Birds?” “Yeah. The game where you shoot birds at pigs? I’m not that old, am I?”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“The cat stretched out in Billie’s arms, opened his eyes just enough to see Solomon, then closed them again. Delighted where he was. People spent the majority of their lives figuring out how to be happy and a sliver of it actually being happy. But Russ was happy now.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“he sat on his couch with Russ and watched the sunrise as he let his thoughts take him where they wanted to take him. Sometimes, that was the only way to really see what you were thinking.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“The first of those rules is that you cut toxic people out of your life. No matter who they are, friends or family. You can’t heal when someone is holding you in place. And toxic blood is not thicker than water.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“Solomon hadn’t meant to hurt her, but she needed to hear it. He’d seen it before: devoted children thinking it was their obligation to take care of ailing parents who required constant supervision.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“Judges were the last form of tyranny left in America.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“No, I don’t believe that. I think the goal of life is to change money for time, not time for money. Because we all run out of time first. People don’t realize that and waste their lives, and by the—excuse the pun—time they figure it out, it might be too late. Their lives are on autopilot.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“There were times when the darkness was too much, and he couldn’t absorb any more.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“Whatever it was that made someone human, they didn’t have.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“Solomon had grown up in a different generation. A generation that had certain protocols that you just didn’t violate. And there were things from childhood ingrained in you that never left.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“Solomon had grown up in a different generation. A generation that had certain protocols that you just didn’t violate. And there were things from”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“Even in atrocious circumstances, children could make the best of it. He wondered at what point in life adults lost that skill.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“No one’s normal. There’s no adults in the world, Billie. We’re all just faking it.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“Reading and watching the news shrinks your frontal cortex by a microinch every year.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“That’s the great thing about the truth. It’s true whether we believe it or not.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“just know that some people are happier than others, and there’s some rules you have to live by if you want to be one of those people. The first of those rules is that you cut toxic people out of your life. No matter who they are, friends or family. You can’t heal when someone is holding you in place. And toxic blood is not thicker than water.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“watched the sunrise as he let his thoughts take him where they wanted to take him. Sometimes, that was the only way to really see what you were thinking.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“In many ways, they were both the undead. Whatever it was that made someone human, they didn’t have.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“That’s how the cookie crumbled. What can you do?”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness

“I just know that some people are happier than others, and there’s some rules you have to live by if you want to be one of those people. The first of those rules is that you cut toxic people out of your life. No matter who they are, friends or family. You can’t heal when someone is holding you in place. And toxic blood is not thicker than water.”
― Victor Methos, The Secret Witness