Quotes About Integrity

The good guys and bad guys aren't as easy to tell apart as I used to think they were. You can't look at someone with your eyes and take their measure. You have to look with the heart.

What we achieve at our best moment doesn't say much about who we are. It all boils down to what we become at our worst moment.

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.

No way. I'm not going in there. I draw the line at grave-robbing, Barrons. It's not your pen.

As he closed the door he said over his shoulder, "Because you're a good lass." A heavy sigh. "And I'm no' a good man.

My trews may be soft, lass, he thoughts, but what's in them isn't.

When everything else is gone, balls are all any of us really have left. The question is: are yours made of flesh and blood, or steel?

Propping the mirror against the wall near the door, he waved a hand at it and clipped, "Drustan: Cian MacKeltar. Cian: Drustan MacKeltar." "Dageus," Drustan's voice was soft as velvet, never a good sign, "why are you introducing me to a mirror?

I have a box inside me now that never used to exist. I never needed it before. It's down in my deepest, darkest corner, and it's airtight, soundproofed and padlocked. It's where I keep the thoughts I don't know what to do with, that could get me into trouble. Eating Unseelie hammers on the inside of that lid incessantly. I try to keep kissing Barrons in that box, too, but it gets out sometimes.

Lies are horny little buggers, they breed like rabbits and bound around just as insanely and then you have to try to keep track of them.

It's not my fault who I am. The only think that's my fault is what I choose to do

It's our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.

That's why I'm still a virgin, because it means something to me and I'm not going to toss my virginity at your charming feet just because you're the most gorgeous, fascinating man I've ever met and I happen to like your last name.

Once you start splitting hairs, trying to convince yourself some things are more acceptable to destroy, you've already lost the most important war.

Did he think I would beg him to stay? Never. People had to want to stay, choose to be with you, or it meant nothing.

I don't convince nobody of nothing. You take me or leave me just the way I am! But I ain't changing for you or nobody else and I ain't faking either, and if you think breaking my bones one by one is going to accomplish a thing besides, like, breaking my bones, good luck with that!

Sometimes the most heroic action you can take looks a lot like inaction to the rest of the world. Sometimes the hardest, longest walk is the one the white-hat takes offstage.

You don't know me inside and out. You may have gotten in my skin, but you have never gotten inside my heart. Go ahead, Barrons, make me slice and dice myself. Go ahead, play games with me. Push me around. Lie to me. Bully me. Be your usual constant jackass self. Stalk around all broody and pissy and secretive, but you're wrong about me. There's something inside me you'd better be afraid of. And you can't touch my soul. You will never touch my soul!

It's our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.

Choose the men you take to your bed by these criteria: they see the finest in you, enhance and defend it.

Acts done by my body against my will are not my acts.

Mom raised me better, I want that noted for posterity's sake: Rainey Lane is a fine, upstanding woman.

They're good men. The best. Keep an open mind and heart, because I can tell you one thing for sure: when these Keltars love, they love completely and forever.

A superhero isn't something you play at sometimes—it's something you are. Full-time, all the time, every day.