damages Quotes

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”

“And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.”

“He whom the flame of jealousy encompasseth, turneth at last, like the scorpion, the poisoned sting against himself.”

″‘Funny you guys should mention brownies,’ Seth said. ‘We need a favor.’ ‘Does the favor involve demons trashing our shed?’ Newel asked.

“The rusted embroidery hoops left an unsightly orange ring on the linen that may have damaged my prospects for good.”

“This your island, which seemed as to this particular the happiest in the world, will suffer much by the cursed avarice of a few persons.”

“I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.”

“I am not the girl I used to be. I am no longer desirable, I’m off-putting in some way. It’s not just that I’ve put on weight, or that my face is puffy from the drinking and the lack of sleep; it’s as if people can see the damage written all over me, can see it in my face, the way I hold myself, the way I move.”

“If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous.”

“Jason: So…this is not the first time I have seen irrevocable damage done by a barbarous rage.”

“Wasn’t this what he had wanted…from this relationship? To be so indispensable to another person that that person couldn’t even comprehend his life without him? And now he had it, and the demands of the position terrified him. He had asked for responsibility without understanding completely how much damage he could do. Was he able to do this?”

“[...] do not damage yourselves By attending only at the hungry altar Of regret and anger and guilt.”

″‘Don’t you see I need to be here so they can fix the damage that’s been done to my heart?’ ‘Who’s gonna fix the damage that’s been done to mine?‘”

“As a squire, your first duty is to your knight’s armor. Your knight’s armor is more important than your own life. If you damage or mislay a single piece of your knight’s armor, I will personally damage or mislay a piece of you. And I mean that from the bottom of my heart.”