#consequences

The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. It doesn't matter what they do, because everything works out in the end. They'll beat the bad guys and put things right and everything ends up cool. In real life, vacuum cleaners kill spiders. If you cross a busy road without looking, you get whacked by a car. If you fall from a tree, you break some bones. Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins. I just wanted to make that clear before I begun. ↗

— Darren Shan

#fiction #on-fiction #reality #business

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite. ↗

— Chad Harbach

#adulthood #consequences-life-lessons #life #meaninglessness #art

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's. ↗

— John Connolly

#fairy-tales #gruesome #horror #business

I’m not going to answer that because it’s ridiculous. I love you, Lainey. I've loved you from the day I met you, if not before, and I've loved you every day since. How could you even doubt that? ↗

— Kaitlyn Oruska

#forever #love #love

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. -Sir Winston Churchill ↗

— Aleatha Romig

#inspirational

Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will. ↗

— Anthon St. Maarten

#destiny #fate-destiny #free-will #fulfillment #happiness

We make choices every day, some of them good, some of them bad. And if we are strong enough, we live with the consequences. ↗

— David Gemmell

#dramatist-quotes #inspirational-quotes #tragedy #inspirational

Se antes de cada acto nosso nos puséssemos a prever todas as consequências dele, a pensar nelas a sério, primeiro as imediatas, depois as prováveis, depois as possíveis, depois as imagináveis, não chegaríamos sequer a mover-nos de onde o primeiro pensamento nos tivesse feito parar. ↗

— José Saramago

#inspirational #inspirational

Planetologist call it the conundrum of unforeseen ecological consequence. I call it the whack-a-mole rule of human meddling. She clasped both hands like a child hammering. WHACK! We change something here. Oops, that makes another problem pop up there where we didn't expect it. WHACK! So, we whack that mole. Oops! We're so smart that we're a menace. ↗

— Robert Buettner

#human-nature #human-superiority #humanity #humans #meddlers

You took a life and the theft went unpunished. God didn't strike you down. The sky didn't fall. The morning after, you turned on the faucet and water still came out... It was still good when you raised your arm for a cab and one came towards you out of the flow like magic. You did things that were supposed to end you and found they were only things that changed you. It was a disappointment and a revelation and a bereavement and a new thrilling nudity. It was the basic prosaic obscenity: You kept going. ↗

— Glen Duncan

#killing #murder #remorse #change