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Quotes About Consequences

Walk out of this with your parents, the stones, and Darroc dead, Ms. Lane, and I'll give you the bloody thing.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia.
~ Karen Marie Moning
You've been doing something bad since the moment you met me, lass.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I want to tell her revenge is a devil you don't want to worship. In destroying your enemy you become it.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Procrastinating is number one of my Stupid List. You still end up exactly where you didn't want to be, doing exactly what you didn't want to do, with the only difference being you lost all that time in between, during which you could have been doing something fun. Even worse, you probably stayed in a stressed-out, scrappy mood the whole time you were avoiding it.
~ Karen Marie Moning
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~ Karen Marie Moning
I swear," she babbled hastily, "I won't tell a soul. I don't care. It's okay with me if you have them. I have absolutely no desire to go to the police or anything like that. I don't even like the police. Police and me have never gotten along. They gave me a ticket once for going forty-five in a forty-five zone; how could I possibly like them after that?" ~Chloe to Dageus
~ Karen Marie Moning
They're called shortcuts for a reason. The shorter they are, the more they usually cut. Nothing is without price.
~ Karen Marie Moning
sorry was worthless. It changed nothing. Merely coerced the victim to offer forgiveness for what you shouldn't have done to begin with.
~ Karen Marie Moning
When you refuse to think about an issue, it remains unchanged, in precisely the same state as you tucked it away." "Precisely the point of boxing it. The issue dies. Can no longer affect you. It's a damned effective tactic." "Short-term yes. Long-term, a recipe for disaster. When you next encounter whatever you boxed your feeling about, you're ambushed by repressed, unresolved emotion.
~ Karen Marie Moning
When someone hurts you - and I'm not talking about forgivable offenses, some things are irrevocable and demand recompense-you have two choices: slice them out of your life or slice them into delicious, bloody pieces. While the latter would be infinitely more satisfying in an immediate, animalistic way, it changes you. And, although you think the memory of the battle won will be a please-if it is a pleasure, you've lost the war.
~ Karen Marie Moning
It was possible to love someone who was completely wrong for you. You could waste your entire life loving that person, doing enormous damage to each other and the world around you.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I don't know what I can and can't do, Cruce, but I will learn, and quickly, and if you make me learn the hard way, I'll turn every bit of it against you. I can be the sheepdog that walks at your side, or I can be the wolf you don't want living in your backyard. The powerful, hungry, savage, and pissed-off wolf, and I promise you, I will delight in destroying your backyard. I have a long memory and few scruples left. It's your call, babe.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Lines are thin. So easy to cross. Impossible to uncross.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Then why? Why would you do something that you know is going to end up bad? Why would anyone ever do something they know is going to hurt them?
~ Karen Marie Moning
You know I'm no' a good man," he said, his voice deceptively gentle, belying the steel beneath it. "I've made no excuses. I've given you no pretty lies. You came with me anyway. Doona pretend you doona know what I want and doona think to deny me. Twice now you've tried to go back. There is no going back with me, Chloe-lass.
~ Karen Marie Moning
You bloody fool, do you never stop to consider the consequences of your actions?" He barreled out of the mirror behind me. "Of course I do," I said coolly. "There's always plenty of time to consider the consequences. After I've screwed up.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Don't hide your mistakes, 'Cause they'll find you, burn you —"Get Out Alive" by Three Days Grace
~ Karen Marie Moning
Indeed, there are times the most desirable, correct, necessary action results in catastrophic consequences. We're facing them now.
~ Karen Marie Moning
If you know what's coming and don't do anything to stop it, you got no right to act all surprised and pissy when the crap hits the fan. Rule #1 in the Universe: the crap always hits the fan. It's the nature of crap. It's a fan magnet.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Old witch passed on a few good things but they'll never counter all the evil she did.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I was not supposed to reveal her," he lied swiftly, meeting Duncan's gaze with a silent warning. He was momentarily appalled at how easily the lie had sprung to his lips. See, , he berated himself, break one rule and they all go to hell.
~ Karen Marie Moning
He'd sternly reminded himself of rule number four—no physical intimacy. But it had done him no good. Rule number four seemed to have become quite friendly with rule number one—never break an oath—and was cozying up nicely to rule number two—do not lie. What a crowd they were becoming, his broken rules.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I handled it carefully, aware of my heightened strength. I'd bent the door of the Maybach when I'd shut it too hard. Barrons was still pissed about it. Nobody likes a door-slammer, he'd growled.
~ Karen Marie Moning