#reacher

Never forgive, never forget. Do it once and do it right. You reap what you sow. Plans go to hell as soon as the first shot is fired. Protect and serve. Never off duty. ↗

— Lee Child

#forgiveness

Enough, a person might say, if that person lived in the civilized world, the world of movies and television and fair play and decent restraint. But Reacher didn’t live there. He lived in a world where you don’t start fights but you sure as hell finish them, and you don’t lose them either, and he was the inheritor of generations of hard-won wisdom that said the best way to lose them was to assume they were over when they weren’t yet. ↗

— Lee Child

#movies

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#parents-and-responsiblity #survival #treachery #respect

I'm marrying my common-law wife, Beth, the Christian way, with a preacher and all that. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#i #marrying #preacher #way #wife

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#noble #treachery #tyranny