Quotes About Consequences

Love is like a game of chess: One false move and you're mated.

Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant.

The things I do to people I love shouldn't be allowed.

If you love something, set it free. Just don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes...

If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

You may write it on his tombstone, You may cut it on his card, That a young man married is a young man marred

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev.

Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Sophie McClellen," Clay said so grimly, it got her undivided attention. "Yes, Clay?" She was surprised she had such an obedient tone at her disposal. "If you can't keep your mouth shut, what's say we talk about what you were doing up here when I told you to stay in the house and rest!" He'd started out whispering, but by the time he was done, he'd built to a roar.

Sometimes the villain becomes a victim

Time doesn't run backward, you know, and things that have been done can't be undone, no matter how hard you wish.

Sometimes dramatic people try to draw you into someone else's drama, and that never ends well. Interfering is like pulling on a dangerous dog's ears. Do it at your own peril.

A perpetrator may have hurt someone for a few minutes of his/her life and may even regret it, but the survivor lives with the pain, triggers, shame and fear for a lifetime.

No matter how great a gift or skill, it's impossible to foresee every outcome.

I finally understood that history wasn't just written on walls and in books but made in a thousand daily decisions, and some of them went wrong, some went right, and some decisions just had to be made because time was running out. Waiting for someone else to write your history was no way to live. Sometimes it was only a certain way to die.

Even justice couldn't erase scars—it only delivered on a promise to the living that evil would not go unpunished.

Killing is different from thinking about killing.

I gave you a chance. I gave you every chance.

I never want another word about Lia to pass from your lips. And if one word should escape, even by chance, I'll stuff every coin that's in your greedy little palm down your throat right before I cut out your tongue. Do you understand me, Enzo?

Maybe I finally understood that history wasn't just written on walls and in books but made in a thousand daily decisions, and some of them went wrong, some went right, and some decisions just had to be made because time was running out. Waiting for someone else to write your history was no way to live. Sometimes it was only a certain way to die.