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Quotes About Revenge

I won't forgive this wrong done to me and my house, whoever it was that killed my boys, I shall put a curse on their house that they will have no first born son to inherit. Whoever took my son will lose his son. He will spend his life longing for an heir. He will bury his first born and long for him, for I cannot even bury mine.
~ Philippa Gregory
When they launch snakes, you will have your namesake.
~ Philippa Gregory
I don't care , she thought angrily, turning all her anger back onto Wally again. I am going to make him as miserable as I can this Christmas, and if we're both stuck in fourth grade for the rest of our lives, he'll be sorry he ever heard the name Malloy.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
What their parents didn't understand was that Caroline and her sisters could no more go without getting even than they could go without breathing. In fact, half the fun of getting even was to see what the boys would think up next, just so Caroline, Beth, and Eddie could get even all over again. They'd never had so much excitement back in Ohio.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Caroline didn't know whether she was more angry or excited. Every time the boys did something to them, it just gave the girls an excuse to do something worse.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The best is to do injustice without paying the penalty; the worst is to suffer it without being able to take revenge. Justice is a mean between these two extremes. People value it not because it is a good but because they are too weak to do injustice with impunity.
~ Plato
And then she poked him again. Not because he wasn't paying attention but because when she did it the first time she found she liked it. Mrs. Bunny might think she was getting away with this, but Mr. Bunny was silently counting the pokes to pay her back later.
~ Polly Horvath
Treachery can't be forgiven. Michael could have forgiven it, but people never forgive themselves and so they would always be dangerous.
~ Unknown
A lifetime of cannibal hatred
~ R. Scott Bakker
I was stunned. "I wished it," I murmured. "And now it's come true." "What are you talking about?" Foz demanded. He grabbed me by the shoulders. "Get it together, Tim. We've got to do something! What's going to happen when your parents get home?" "I told Ginny I'd turn her into a rabbit," I explained, still dazed. "To get back at her for ruining all my magic shows. And now she is a rabbit!
~ R.L. Stine
Did that remind anybody else of something? Yes, Eve said, tapping her lower lip with a bloodred fingernail. How much I need to shave her head while she's sleeping.
~ Rachel Caine
But – Michael, you said you didn't know Oliver, and–" "I didn't, until he killed me. We were never formally introduced.
~ Rachel Caine
You know, I said to Michael, my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch. Too bad she isn't here, he said.
~ Rachel Caine
I'm your worst damn nightmare, Skeletor. I'm a vampire killer with fangs and a grudge.
~ Rachel Caine
He's not getting out of here again...But you don't have to go all Marquis de Sade on him either. Just kill him or let me.
~ Rachel Caine
I want you to know that when it comes, when it all falls down, it's your fault, you worthless, stupid bitch. I should have started with you. But I'll finish with you, one of these days. You think I won't touch you? I will. From the inside out.
~ Rachel Caine
You, Monica said, leaning over her, really pissed me off, fish. I don't forget things like that. Neither does my boyfriend. Brandon? Claire wheezed. Jeez, at least get one with a pulse!
~ Rachel Caine
Absalom has made me into the worst kind of enemy: one with nothing to lose, and nothing left to fear.
~ Rachel Caine
These humans—they are cruel monsters. Liars. Deceitful. For the first time, I want to hurt them the way they hurt me. This is so unfair. My body feels numb, my energy spent, my mind deceived and angry.
~ Rachel Cohn
From behind I don't see Caroline but I do that stupid bitch, Tris, rhymes with bris, cuz that's what she'll do to a guy, rip apart his piece.
~ Rachel Cohn
you'd have understood how easily the blade of spite turns in one's hands, and cuts one's own palms.
~ Rachel Kadish
those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.
~ Dean Koontz
When she returned, she smiled and said, We were at the movies once, and this dork took two phone calls during the film. Later we followed him, and Andre broke both his legs with a baseball bat. This proved that even the most evil people could occasionally have a socially responsible impulse.
~ Dean Koontz
there were two types of survivors in life: those, like her, who found the requisite strength in having once been loved with great intensity; and those who, having not been loved, learned to thrive on hatred, suspicion, and the meager rewards of revenge. They were at once scornful of the need for human feeling and envious of the capacity for it.
~ Dean Koontz