Quotes About Consequences

A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.

Better by far never to have known the pleasure than to have the pain that followed.

It's my fault for not shooting the son of a bitch while he was drinking. I didn't know who he was at the time, but I should have shot him on suspicion. And then I plumb forgot about it all day. I'm getting too foolish to live.

One little shot during a card game in Arkansas had started things happening—things he couldn't see the end of.

What part of a man is it best to shoot at?" asked Sean. "His horse," said Jake.

Allen, it puzzles me that a man can shoot thirty-two full-grown men and women before the sheriff's men gun him down. You're more his time, maybe you can tell me. Why didn't someone just shoot the son of a bitch?

Six times over several centuries, you attacked the worlds of men. Six times you were defeated, having lost approximately two-thirds of your male population in each war. Need I comment on the level of intelligence displayed? No?

Be careful what you give up.

And I want you to know, Max said kindly to him, I don't hold you in any way responsible. Lysander frowned. For what? For sending me an assistant who wanted to take over New York with the help of a virgin-raping,mundane-eating demon. Lysander stiffened. I am not 'in any way responsible' for that! You did authorize the assignment, I reminded him. Well, I— I— Lysander cleared his throat. The decision was made at headquarters. All I did was sign the standard paperwork.

I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.

I'll regret it for the rest of my life, Rush, but I was fucking seventeen years old. We're morons at seventeen. We think everything we do is right-- that nothing has a consequence.

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake

Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you.

It would be nice if you'd stop almost killing me because you don't want to screw other peo­ple.

We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys. -Edward

Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.

If they cheat, can I shoot them?

Great. I didn't say thank you, because it seemed wrong. I wanted to call her a bitch and shoot her between the eyes, but then I would have had to shoot Enzo, too. And how would I explain that to the police? She was breaking no laws. Dammit.

I don't want him hurt because he got out of hand with me. Yet you would have shot him. I shrugged. I never said I was consistent, just serious.

Revenge was always the easy part; the hard part was living with it afterward.

You either pay as you go with Raina, or you end up owing her, and owing comes with interest, and the interest is hell to pay.

No matter how careful you are, you can end up pregnant. That's what sex is designed to do, after all. So, never sleep with someone who's mean or stupid, and ugly is a judgment call, because all three may breed true.

stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.