“The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult fiction, and because of this it became a very successful book, and right now it's some sort of a standard title, it's read widely in many high schools in Spain, so I think, in a way, I was a victim of my own success in the field of young adult fiction, because it was never my own natural register. I never intended to write that kind of fiction, but I became very successful at it.” ThinkingWayWritingFirstsKindImportantBookStoriesSchoolYoungNaturalMy OwnFictionNovelSuccessfulMysteryFieldsAdventureRight NowStandardsHigh SchoolAdultsVictimYoung AdultTitlesAwardsSpainRegister Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here on Earth...I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer.” WorldWantEyeEarthLyingJusticeMy OwnSpaceBuiltInfiniteVictimEmbraceLongingBelieverLionsMurdererTime And SpaceLambsInfinite Time Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I am the wound and the knife! I am the slap and the cheek! I am the limbs and the rack, And the victim and the executioner! I am the vampire of my own heart.” HeartSelfMy OwnVictimWoundsVampireTortureKnivesCheeksLimbsSlapRacksExecutioners Author:Charles Baudelaire
“And I envy the intransigence of my own Countrymen who shoot to kill and never See the victim's face become their own Or find his motive sabotage their motives.” FacesMy OwnVictimKillingEnvyMotiveCountrymenSabotage Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“I didn't want to be a victim of my own message [in Trust film]. I didn't want to take advantage of a 14-year-old actor. I didn't want there to be any nudity, or any real overt violence. I think it's more terrifying that there is no violence, in that moment. There's control and there's power, but there's no violence.” ThinkingWantYearsRealMomentsFilmActorsMy OwnViolenceMessagesAdvantageVictimThat MomentNudity Author:David Schwimmer
“[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.” ThinkingTryingMindDesireEasyMy OwnLossAudienceViolenceChildhoodHappeningsVictimCriminalsInnocenceShockLoss Of Innocence Author:Said Sayrafiezadeh
“I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories.” StoriesBigsMy OwnVictimMy Own LifeVictimhood Author:Kevin Starr
“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.” MenLoveLongHas BeensSometimesCareRomanceWaitingMy OwnDecisionRiskGreatnessHighestCapableLong TimeOptimismVictimAssumingDisappointmentTendenciesFallenReachingMore TimeHungI CareMeasuringMaking DecisionsPray LoveEat Pray Love BookEat Pray And LoveBest Eat Pray LoveEat Love PrayBali Eat Pray Love Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).” WorldLifeLooksLongHardJoyLostDarkMy OwnPerfectBehindsBrainWorstTaughtMoonSkillsDespairLong TimeDaughterRedWindowSeasonsDressesVictimFlamesGloriousMy DaughterYellowSpheresBedroomStrokesRebirthOutlinesColorlessCrescentCrescent Moon Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some cosmic practical joke, by assigning me little more than a walk-on part in my own life. Or sometimes I feel that my role is simply to be a spectator to other people's stories, and always to wander away at the most important moment, drifiting into the kitchen to make a cup of tea just as the denouement unfolds.” PeopleFeelsLittlesMadeImportantSometimesMomentsStoriesActionMy OwnWalksRolesJokesVictimPracticalsWanderCupsTeaKitchenCosmicDestinedSpectatorsMy Own LifeCups Of TeaPractical JokeImportant MomentsDenouement Book:The rotters' club Source: The rotters' club
“Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims....and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But - how can I put this? I'm almost......drawn to them.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsHelpingRunningNightSufferingMy OwnSawsStreetsCryTvsVictimHelping OthersInnocentAnguishBosniaInnocent VictimsGetting Fired Author:Morrie Schwartz
“Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.” Has BeensHappensMy OwnVictimRetrospect Author:Wayne Newton
“With relationships, I always had a reason why some time in the future would be better for me than it was that day. When I was fat, I thought I'd feel pretty when I was thin, and when I was thin, I thought I'd be happier if I was more toned and muscular and had more money to look more coordinated. I wasn't comfortable in my own skin unless there was a man there to tell me just how radiant that skin looked. I was a victim of low self-esteem and had the Soon syndrome bad. I was running toward a brighter future, unaware of the mirages I'd created in the distance.” IfsMenFeelsLooksSelfReasonWould BeRunningMy OwnSelf EsteemComfortableLowsSkinsVictimDistanceFatsEsteemReason WhyMore MoneyBrighterLow Self EsteemRadiantSyndromesMiragesBrighter Future Author:Stephanie Klein