Quotes About Consequence

In case you were wondering, it is preferable to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven—I've done both.

If I'd just listened—just taken one second to listen—it wouldn't have happened

I would rather insult you than lose you, he said, and before any of them could make a move to stop him, he cast both items into the fire.

Sed lex dura lex," said Jace automatically. "The Law is hard, but it is the Law.

Because sometime, somehow, the god spoke your name. You took a step too far and here you are. None of us can ever go back. Even if we wanted to.

I hurled the slipper at him, not caring if I caused his decapitation. (I did not.)

My downfall, inevitably, was triggered by food.

Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.

Picture yourself looking back on the decision ten or twenty years down the road. Let's say you try it, and it doesn't work out. How much will you regret it? Now let's say you don't try it, so you never know. Then how much regret?

But people do plenty of harm when they didn't mean any. It happens all the time.

When you assume, you make an ass of you and me.

You can do anything you want, so long as you're willing to pay the bill when it comes in.

these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. Which

I decided to leave my bags there at the hotel. It was a risky move, because I knew if I didn't get back to fetch them by noon, I could be on the hook for another day's two-dollar charge.

We take all these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. Which

Sorry doesn't mean shit. Not if you don't plan to stop doing the thing you're so sorry about. There has to be more to amends than just a word. Anybody can say a damn word.

Once you throw down that gauntlet of ultimatum, the "one more thing" will happen. Nat figured it probably wouldn't even matter much what it was. It would be the straw that broke her. And it had been defined. Prepared for. So it would happen. It was only a matter of time.

nobody does anything wrong until the moment they do.

Funny how we do things before there's even time to think how it will turn out.

Therefore, in accordance with our laws, I sentence you, Jenna of Saura, to death." Her

The point's not what it costs; it's what it costs you. Everything you have. That's my price, that's my prize, that's my ransom, and that's my rune. The only price in the world that matters is the one that hurts to pay.

A body is never so vicious as when it has only itself to blame for its trouble.

One misfortune may be chance; two might be divine punishment. Three is a plan.

If you don't leave now, I'll call the