Quotes About Consequence

Each action contains its opposite. Each action contains the shadow-trace of the choice not made, the seeds of infinite variation. Each choice, once made, trips contingencies, alternatives; each choice breeds its own universe.

As More says, it hardly makes a man a hero, to agree to stand and burn once he is chained to a stake. I have written books and I cannot unwrite them. I cannot unbelieve what I believe. I cannot unlive my life.

You could not know, sir, what Katherine was asking.' That's the point of a promise, he thinks. It wouldn't have any value, if you could see what it would cost you when you made it.

But what do they get by the change? One dog sated with meat is replaced by a hungrier dog who bites nearer the bone. Out goes the man grown fat with honor, and in comes a hungry and a lean man.

That's the point of a promise, he thinks. It wouldn't have any value, if you could see what it would cost you when you made it.

He who climbs higher than he should, falls lower than he would.

If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?

Once the queen's head is severed, he walks away.

There are moments when a memory moves right through you. You shy, you duck, you run; or else the past takes your fist and actuates it, without the intervention of will. Suppose you have a knife in your fist? That's how murder happens.

No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.

And yet, I don't regret it now. Having stepped off the edge, what I want to do is fall.

The Lady or The Tiger,' ... 'My lady, the tiger

You can't go around making plans that have you getting killed as a by-product. Eventually one of them is going to work .

I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can't. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result.

I don't know what to apologize for first," I say. "Cutting off your head or hesitating so long to do it.

Choose a future, Balekin had commanded him when he'd first brought Cardan to Hollow Hall. But no one chooses a future. You choose a path without being certain where it leads. Choose one way and a monster rends your flesh. Choose another and your heart turns to stone, or fire, or glass.

Remember what your father said about magic, boy. It'll cost you everything.

Of course, that was probably a problem with being an Evil Overlord. You didn't regret the right things.

He will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.

Jude Duarte, you will leave the High Kings side,¨ Balekin says. At that tone, Cardan´s focus narrows. ¨She will not,¨ he says. Page 287

If you stop," she says, "I will also kill you.

I consider mentioning her last ill-fated decision—the one about having fun at the revel—

Mátalo antes de que te haga amarlo.

Fire can either burn down your house or warm it.