Quotes About Consequence

Being in the infirmary when you'd gotten injured being awesome was totally different from being in the Infirmary for doing something dumb.

I have often wondered if my past is the reason I am the way I am, if it has made me monstrous. If so, will I make a monster out of him"?

I have struck the Prince of Elfhame. Oh, I am in trouble now.

He might not want to hurt me, but that doesn't mean he won't.

Taryn glowers, putting her chin up. 'I didn't want to fight.' 'Then you ought not to do so in the future,' Madoc says. 'There's no point in fighting if you're not intending to win.

It's frightening to have a choice like this in front of me, a choice that changes all future choices.

If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back." The Cruel Prince

I will have to do something about Locke eventually, but not tonight.

Te arrepentirás de esto». No lo digo en voz alta, pero miro a Cardan y pienso esas palabras con tanta fuerza que es casi como si estuviera gritando.

KILL THE BEARER OF THIS MESSAGE.

I think he was flirting with me. I don't even remember deciding to hit him.

With no good ideas, she was going to go for the bad one.

Taryn takes a breath, as if steeling herself. "He's dead because I killed him.

If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back." ? Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

Act to prevent the worst thing that could happen if you don't act.

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

My dear Pierre, the affair is clear, you'll have your head chopped off. Let that be a lesson to you!

James 1:14, 15: "But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

she felt such an intense sensation of happiness it frightened her, because surely there was a price to pay for this sort of bliss.

The risks were calculated. The risks were justified. No one ever ascended a mountain without risk.