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Quotes About Trouble

If you are able to state a problem, it can be solved.
~ land edwin ii
You're a public menace. You shouldn't be allowed out on your own.
~ Cassandra Clare
I am so screwed.
~ Cassandra Clare
You are a great deal of trouble, Jace Herondale
~ Cassandra Clare
Jace whistled. "Raphael is really having an exceptionally bad night." -Jace, pg.283-
~ Cassandra Clare
Her heart beat a little harder as she tried, too late, to avoid noticing how incredible his ass looked in his jeans. She was in big trouble.
~ Cat Johnson
You went to all that trouble just for my body?" I said, amazed and so grateful. Reyn looked up, irritation on his face. "Yeah. We were going to have you stuffed, as an example to future students." I grinned, "You could put me on wheels, move me from room to room.
~ Cate Tiernan
The girl is half my size. I think I can handle her without calling council." "You disappoint me, Hunter. Where is the patience you show with the wild horses you train? Has it gone the way of the wind?" "A horse is worth the trouble. A yellow-hair is not.
~ Catherine Anderson
Hunter, if you leave signs for other Comanche bands, why do white men have so much trouble finding you?" "They are not smart." Loretta laughed softly. "I think I've been insulted. You think I'm stupid?" He threw her a look that made her laugh again. "A little bit smart. Because I teach you." "Ah, so I'm ignorant, not stupid? I suppose I can accept that.
~ Catherine Anderson
Hunter, if you leave signs for other Comanche bands, why do white men have so much trouble finding you?" "They are not smart.
~ Catherine Anderson
All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
~ Catherine Deneuve
In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret's nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.
~ Catherine Drinker Bowen
Of course it landed in my gut to a total panic response, because I wasn't expecting anyone, and didn't seem able to anticipate anything but more trouble. I try not to think that way, but it's more a feeling than a thought, and besides, it's an involuntary response.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
If I sit inside, then nobody will know I'm in trouble. And so then nobody will help me.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
The shorter your range of vision, the fewer options and changes to trouble you.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
August remembered Harvey's words, and when he said good-bye he silently let them go. Released them into their own lives. He wished for their father to stay out of trouble, even if it meant he'd never see the boys again. Because that's just what you do. You let go.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that's the truth.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Because it's my fault, you see. I did it. And you must always clean up your own messes, even when your messes look just like you and curtsy very viciously when what they mean is, I am going to make trouble forever and ever .
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Have you never known a cruel wind? What an easy, balmy, tropical life you must have! I never tease, madam! I coax, I beguile, I stomp, I throw tantrums, and for certain, I freeze — I am the Coldest and Harshest of all the Harsh Airs! I am the shiver of the world! But I do not tease . You can cause ever so much more trouble by taking folk seriously, asking just what they're doing and doing just what they ask.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Betsy waved her hands in the air as if to disperse an unpleasant perfume. "He's such a lot of bother. You're better off—theatrical folk are nothing but a bundle of monologues and anxiety headaches.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The Party is a wonderful, marvelous invention, and it has taught us wonderful, marvelous things—chiefly, that we can cause more trouble with less effort by filing complaints than by breaking teacups.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Those Puritans would spice the Gallic stew of upper Maine for years, causing no end of trouble to Agnes, who, to be fair, was a witch and a succubus and everything else they ever called her, but that's no excuse for being such poor neighbors, when you think about it.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
A body is never so vicious as when it has only itself to blame for its trouble.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Of course, we would like to tell her which. But no one may know the shape of the tale in which they move. And, perhaps, we do not truly know what sort of beast it is, either. Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.
~ Catherynne M. Valente