Quotes from The Wronged Sons

John Marrs ·  400 pages

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“To anyone who ever gave you confidence - you owe them a lot.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons


“It was better to remain on my island than drown in somebody else’s sea. 7”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons


“There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.’ —Franz Kafka”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons


“It was better to remain on my island than drown in somebody else’s sea.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons


“Holly was right. To anyone who ever gave you confidence – you owe them a lot.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons



“He was her only love, but his paranoia and insecurities wouldn’t allow him to believe that. My mother was not strong enough to leave him. She tried her best to please him and win his trust, but when you accuse someone so often, eventually they will give in and prove you right.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons


“I questioned what was missing in my father’s make-up that rendered him unable to keep hold of Doreen.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons


“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.’ —Paulo Coelho”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons


“Just because no one creed, religion or class stood prouder than any other didn’t mean a whole nation was lacking in essence.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons


“Stones had been cast and glasshouses lay in shards all around us. Inside I was dead; it was time for my exterior to follow suit.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons



“I was trapped in a horrible nightmare that happened to other people, not to me. Not to my family and not to my husband.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons


“But that’s what love is, Simon. It’s never giving up on the person you’ve given your heart to. It’s having faith that no matter how tough things get, that person will always be looking for you.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons


“You can either learn from your parents’ mistakes, or repeat them and use them as an excuse for your own behaviour.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons


“There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.’ —Franz Kafka ‘Life”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons


“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons



“There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons


“Because the more you trust in someone, the more opportunities you give them to shatter your illusions about them. But”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons


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John Marrs
Born place: in Northamptonshire, The United Kingdom
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