💬 Quotes

"The truth is a hard thing to get a grip on, and most people are happy enough to let it slide right through their fingers."

"Poverty is a character trait. You think it's a lack of money, but it's a lack of options, a thinning of the soul."

"Which would be worse: to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?"

"We’re on a rock in the middle of the ocean, surrounded by lunatics. And you’re telling me there’s no way off?"

"The mind has its own secrets. It keeps things from us—things we aren't ready to face."

"You're a U.S. Marshal. You’re a man of the law. But the law doesn't reach into the places where the ghosts live."

"Sanity is a thin veil, Teddy. It’s what we use to cover up the things we can’t bear to look at."

"Every secret has a weight. The more you carry, the harder it is to keep your balance."

"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

"Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue."

"The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone."

"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."

"When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing... you may know that your society is doomed."

"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong."

"She had no patience for people who thought they could treat her like a victim. She was a survivor, and that was the only thing that mattered."

"The past is a stubborn thing. It doesn't disappear just because you want it to; it waits in the shadows, ready to strike when you're at your weakest."

"I’m not a victim. I’m an independent woman who has decided to live her life on her own terms, regardless of what the world thinks is appropriate."

"There are people who believe that every problem can be solved with enough information, and then there are those who believe that some secrets are better left buried in the dark."

"Trust is a luxury I cannot afford. In my experience, people are either incompetent, malicious, or both."

"He realized that the search for truth was not just a job for him—it was a moral imperative, a way of balancing the scales in a world that was fundamentally unfair."