10 Quotes by Sibel Hodge

I don’t know why I’ve always been interested in the evil things people do. I’m not alone, I know that. People who devour true crime stories. People who watch the horrors on the news every day or read about them in the paper. People who rubberneck at accidents. They want to see it, hear it, talk about it. The dark side of human nature is fascinating to people. We’re so obsessed with all the bad things that happen in the world and not with the good.

Why did some people do those things? Because there have always been doers. Right back to the beginning of time, evil has existed in human form. But the followers interested me, too. Why did some people watch and do nothing? What made some watchers join the doers?

It was a mistake, that’s all. A stupid, stupid mistake. We all make them–it doesn’t matter if it’s a calculated risk or a split-second decision, but sometimes we’re only one step away from disaster.

The trouble was, no one thought about the victims any more. It was all about human rights for the criminal. Injustice was the name of the game now.

And when the memories lie, sometimes it’s best to let the truth stay hidden.

Choices were always relative. When you had none, you did what you had to in order to survive.

By the time they found her remains, I hadn’t thought about her for years. I’d been too busy getting on with my life. A life I thought was normal.

Physical wounds can heal, can’t they? But it takes a long time to recover from having your self-confidence and self-esteem crushed to nothing. I watched him smother the life right out of her.

She worked three jobs to support us. Eventually, she got strong again. And there was never another argument in the house. We didn’t have to walk round on eggshells all the time. There was no more trying to anticipate his moods that controlled the whole family. I think my childhood really began the day we moved out.’ ‘She sounds brave.’ ‘She is. It’s just such a shame it took her so long to realize it.