Hidden Scars Quotes

“Because some people have so much hate inside them it affects everything they do, everything they say,’ Kim answered. ‘It eats at them and makes them ugly. They feed off victory. Every little triumph gives them energy and power because then their hate has had effect. It’s had an impact. It has triumphed.”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“You knew he was growing away from you. You’ve managed to isolate him over the years and get rid of anyone he was close to so that it was just the two of you. Your failure to conceive a child prompted you to pull him even closer. That was bearable as long as you had each other. Just the two of you, but then you saw his text message to Wendy and that was the final straw. You knew you were losing him.”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“How many lives had been lost or ruined? What had been the cost of being forced to end a relationship because it didn’t fit with convention? What could have been saved if they’d been allowed to stay together?”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“This woman was unrecognisable as the chirpy, friendly person who had shown them around the clinic. Now she looked older, meaner, harder, and she had a weapon in her hand.”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“Nope, and if I’d lied about that, I’d have been out five months earlier, but I ain’t gonna lie. I hate the queers. I don’t mind the blacks, the Indians, the Romanians or the Jews. I just hate the queers.”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“Please help. Both staff and patients are sworn to secrecy. This is not the professional clinic it seems to be. Patients are being starved, beaten, humiliated and raped. Please let the authorities know so they can investigate properly. They need to access the third floor. Please help before someone else dies.”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“Often when people had jobs such as his they shouted their opinions from the rooftops, defended their positions, justified their beliefs, even tried to convert the opinions of others.”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“Kim was trying to understand why she hadn’t yet taken a dislike to this young man. He was rich, privileged, entitled and deceitful to his parents, and yet open and honest with them.”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“Wouldn’t have stopped the name calling, would it? Wouldn’t have stopped the “lesbo” slurs shouted at my back. Wouldn’t have stopped me feeling frightened that every day those calls would develop into something physical. Living with that kind of fear isn’t living at all. I didn’t want to stand out. I just wanted to be normal.”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“With over a million inhabitants in the city itself and thousands of visitors daily, he could stay in the middle of Birmingham city centre and she’d never find him.”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“I can tell by your micro expressions that you’re horrified by what we do and you’re looking for some sign of evil here. It doesn’t exist. We don’t torture animals and drink their blood. We don’t sacrifice babies at any altar. We help people to change something about themselves they don’t like. How is that any different to cosmetic surgery, Botox or assertiveness training?”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“Twelve hours ago, she’d been on the cusp of leaving this team behind forever, and now she was belly laughing cos Penn had invented a whole new reality.”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“You already know of our purpose, Inspector, and as I can see you’re not a supporter, I won’t explain our work any further.”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“Hey, we all make mistakes, but now I’ve got you, we can either talk out here, in there or down at the station, but one way or another we are going to have a conversation.”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“Richard Von Krafft-Ebing was a German-Austrian psychiatrist and one of the founders of scientific sexology. He became a proponent of the sickness model of homosexuality and believed that treatment came from the prevention of masturbating.”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“To be clear, I explained to Mr and Mrs Mills that my job is to help people come to terms with their sexuality, to understand it, to ensure they don’t see it as a defect in their genetic make-up. To build them up, to embrace who they”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“Over that cuppa my mum explained that life would be harder, that I would face bigots, homophobes, ignorance and stupidity. She told me that I had to rise above it and be true to myself and never to conform because of other people’s opinions.”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“That’s preposterous,’ Diana exploded, finally moving forward and taking a seat. ‘I told you yesterday that he had quiet times, that he was broody, unpredictable.”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“She walked past him without saying a word. She wasn’t sure why he was trying to have a pissing contest with someone who hadn’t even taken their dick out. She had handed the case right to him. She put down”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“Calm down. I was only joking. She’s not your sister, but if she can’t take a joke, I’ll spare her fragile feelings. Talking of fragile, does anyone know where Stone went?”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“Why had Jamie preferred the option of moving out when pressed to find a job? What had been at the core of his bouts of depression? Had his religious upbringing played any part in his decision to leave the family home?”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“The hands that wanted to pummel him into the middle of next week had stayed in his pockets just so the team remained intact.”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“It was complete bullshit, but the therapist had swallowed it and patted himself on the back for a job well done.”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars

“Being beaten to a pulp by one of her old enemies had left deeper scars on her psyche than it had on her flesh. She had known that the physical part of her recovery would take at least eight weeks. The broken bones had mended and most of the pins had been removed, all but one in her right hip that was now with her for life. There had been nothing easy about her rehabilitation, but the focus on mending her body had distracted her from the thoughts in her mind.”
― Angela Marsons, Hidden Scars