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7b8d542 "I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them." "Unfortunately," said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing." revenge humor hodge tea sarcasm Cassandra Clare
6bea20e Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge. revenge J.K. Rowling
45aa7b9 My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die! revenge William Goldman
d8f1889 I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for. harry-potter revenge murder azkaban wormtail sirius-black justice J.K. Rowling
bdaec0c "I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If revenge funny William Shakespeare
4ceb42f Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. revenge grudges spite Anne Lamott
656d31b Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make. revenge love incurable retaliation wounds Euripides
e959f2d When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself. revenge Jodi Picoult
708fb85 "Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs." violence revenge fun humor Eoin Colfer
0632d69 Day after day, day after day revenge faith god inspirational curse Samuel Taylor Coleridge
a0ba852 Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack. revenge shakespeare prospero tempest mercy zombies school Max Brooks
215dc3c May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch revenge happy humour strife funny humor inspirational amusing malediction anger Keisha Keenleyside
5676850 It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end. Let whoever can win glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark. revenge poetry Seamus Heaney
9fd4735 Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge. revenge emotions Terry Pratchett
65ee4c8 "I want to be able to see stuff," Iggy said. "Like I used to, when I was little. And I want to be able to totally kick Jeb's butt." -- revenge iggy maximum-ride James Patterson
381ba0b "One thing, though," Qhuinn murmured. "What?" The voice that came out his throat was unlike anything he'd ever heard from himself before. "If any guy breaks your heart or treats you like shit, I will bust him apart with my bare hands and leave his broken, bloody body for the sun." Blay's laughter rumbled around the tiled walls. "Of course you will--" "I'm dead fucking serious." Blay's blue eyes shot over his shoulder. "If there are any who dare to hurt you," Qhuinn growled in the Old Language, "I shall see them staked afore me and shall leave their bodies in ruin." revenge heartbreak blaylock qhuinn oath J.R. Ward
4642015 I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death. revenge grudge Lloyd Alexander
de34574 "The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine... And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment." revenge realism Harlan Ellison
8b8335a "An eye for an eye." "That's a revenge thing, right? From some play." "The Bible, darling. The Lord of all plays." revenge J.D. Robb
98635e0 I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end... revenge inspirational touching Ishmael Beah
11ac50b Revenge is like sex, Mister Dresden. It's best when it comes on slow, quiet, until it all seems inexorable. sex revenge Jim Butcher
d620deb I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched as am I; and then you may live as long as you like, in some dark and lonely corner of the earth, and I shall call myself content. -Lien, Albino Celestial (Dragon) revenge dramatic-announcements Naomi Novik
5d6f549 "What's done is done. Say good-bye to the past, and hello to the future And we're wasting time, when already we've wasted enough. We've got everything ahead, waiting for us." Just the right words to make me feel real, alive, free! Free enough to forget thoughts of revenge." -- time revenge free thoughts future fin alive finished wasting-time goodbyes real complete done waiting wasted everything V.C. Andrews
bf793d7 There were many, many debts to be paid before she left Rifthold and took back her throne. Starting now. Fortunate that she was in a killing sort of mood. revenge Sarah J. Maas
626f0c6 May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest. revenge Stephen King
c039765 Amy! My God! My God! My darling!' and buried my face in her neck, my arms wrapped tight around her, and let the cameras get their fifteen seconds, and I whispered deep inside her ear, 'You fucking bitch. revenge bitch spoilers Gillian Flynn
61fd03e This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table. revenge humor letter sookie-stackhouse faery paranormal urban-fantasy Charlaine Harris
1e65d69 Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. revenge jane-eyre charlotte-bronte revelation vengeance Charlotte Brontë
eb67893 The justice I have received, I shall give back. revenge Patricia Highsmith
26d25a2 Why does anyone commit murder?' he asked in a low voice. 'I-'I blinked.'How should I know?' 'Three reasons,' Christopher said. He held up one finger. 'Love.' Another finger. 'Revenge.' And finally, a third finger. 'Profit... revenge murder meg-cabot profit Meg Cabot
7cb8f6d I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life. revenge princess-bride William Goldman
0cff179 I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else. revenge Margaret Atwood
5a5e240 "It was one lesson he never forgot.You don't sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted.And you don't act like the goverment with their "proportional responses" and all that nonsense.If someone hurts you,mercy and pity must be put aside,You eliminate the enemy.You scorch the earth." revenge care life love Harlan Coben
798175d It was a cruel fate, Yet not so cruel as Mago's will be. I promise you that, by the old gods and the new, by the lamb god and the horse god and every god that lives. I swear by the Mother of Mountains and the Womb of the World. Before I am done with them, Mago and Ko Jhaqo will plead for the mercy they showed Eroeh. revenge daenerys-targaryen justice George R.R. Martin
fa43dee His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it. revenge threat William Shakespeare
6e18dfb "You stubborn bastard. Take it from someone who knows firsthand, there's a lot to be said for forgiveness. Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them." "And there's a lot to be said for knocking enemies upside their heads and cracking skulls open." Ash & Urian" violence revenge stubborn grudge Sherrilyn Kenyon
7881d1d How very kind of her, ' I said. 'I must remember to send her a card.' I'd send her a card alright. It would be the Ace of Spades, and I'd mail it anonymously from somewhere other than Bishop's Lacey. revenge Alan Bradley
7d0f842 Revenge is a bittersweet fruit that leaves the foul aftertaste of regret. revenge Michael J. Sullivan
cb5c7c3 Revenge may be exacted a hundred times over in one sleepless night. The impulse, the dreaming intention, is human, normal, and we should forgive ourselves. But the raised hand, the actual violent enactment, is cursed. The maths says so. There'll be no reversion to the status quo ante, no balm, no sweet relief, or none that lasts. Only a second crime. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches a civilisation. It's a reversion to constant, visceral fear. revenge maths Ian McEwan
2fa96d7 "I regretted what a serious teenager I'd been: There were no posters of pop stars or favorite movies, no girlish collection of photos or corsages. Instead there were paintings of sailboats, proper pastel pastorals, a portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. The latter was particularly strange, since I'd known little about Mrs. Roosevelt, except that she was good, which at the time I suppose was enough. Given my druthers now, I'd prefer a snapshot of Warren Harding's wife, "the Duchess," who recorded the smallest offenses in a little red notebook and avenged herself accordingly. Today I like my first ladies with a little bite." revenge Gillian Flynn
5f900b8 You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted. revenge life hunter retribution Lisa Gardner
324b6bb ...if you bare your arse to a vengeful unicorn, the number of possible outcomes dwindles to one. revenge David Mitchell
e314e88 Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities. revenge mediocrities Oscar Wilde
4ffdb37 "Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge," Aomame said. "Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empire's budget deficits. It has no moral significance." revenge murakami morals Haruki Murakami
4cda592 -I'm going to heaven! I replied. -What do you mean, you're going to heaven? -Let me pass. -And what will you do in heaven, my poor child? -I'm going there to kill God, who killed Daddy. revenge death god Tom Reiss
b24e050 Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant, I act under orders. revenge moby-dick melville Herman Melville
5b7bf4a You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there. revenge reckoning wounds reconciliation return Jeanette Winterson
888c682 ... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods revenge vengeance David Gemmell
6d22c33 But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again? revenge Jodi Picoult
8ec6c04 It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten. revenge murder fear graveyards infanticide crime Christopher Hitchens
67c7c2f Death, there will be death, aye. Your lordship lost a son at the Red Wedding. I lost four upon the Blackwater. And why? Because the Lannisters stole the throne. Go to King's Landing and look on Tommen with your own eyes, if you doubt me. A blind man could see it. What does Stannis offer you? Vengeance. Vengeance for my sons and yours, for your husbands and your fathers and your brothers. Vengeance for your murdered lord, your murdered king, your butchered princes. Vengeance! revenge George R.R. Martin
0c9d3b6 It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it! revenge goodness good-behaviour payback manners revolution Jean-Paul Sartre
0c14ef9 "Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again," I say, cheerily. "It's sitting in plain view on your chair in the great hall. I do hope that was the best place for it." revenge humor gemma-doyle libba-bray Libba Bray
832c417 "Revenge is sweet, but ice cream is sweeter." She goes to the freezer and removes a tub of mint chocolate chip. She brings that and two spoons back to the sofa. "For now, accept this delight, unworthy though it is for the Queen of Faerie in exile." revenge Holly Black
0598558 As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction. revenge romance repentance forgiveness readers morals Alberto Manguel
6c3d38a I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge. revenge ralph-ellison invisible-man Ralph Ellison
f050dce I have learned that it is one thing to kill in battle, to send a brave man's soul to the corpse hall of the gods, but quite another to take a helpless man's life... war revenge death Bernard Cornwell
af802d3 "Abbey," Sarah said, "life is to be lived. If you're living, you're going to stumble along the way." "All the time?" Abigail lept to her feet and began to pace. "I have such a bad temper and when I was in my teens, I wasn't above using my gift for revenge. None of you did that." Joley slowly raised her hand, sliding down in the chair as she did so. Hannah followed suit, though she didn't look in the least remorseful. Sarah shrugged her shoulders and raised her hand and glared at Elle, who just grinned sheepishly and put up a couple of fingers. Carol tossed her head and waved her arm with gusto." revenge humor Christine Feehan
6786d1d What was she hoping to gain from his death? That it would numb the pain of his betrayal, or heal her injured pride? Her red sister didn't know much about love. revenge love Cornelia Funke
d9ccefd And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in Eastern Europe were Jews. And not just a great number, but a great proportion. The proportion was especially high in the secret police and 'security' departments, where no doubt revenge played its own part, as did the ideological attachment to Communism that was so strong among internationally minded Jews at that period: Jews like David Szmulevski. There were reasonably strong indigenous Communist forces in Czechoslovakia and East Germany, but in Hungary and Poland the Communists were a small minority and knew it, were dependent on the Red Army and aware of the fact, and were disproportionately Jewish and widely detested for that reason. Many of the penal labor camps constructed by the Nazis were later used as holding pens for German deportees by the Communists, and some of those who ran these grim places were Jewish. Nobody from Israel or the diaspora who goes to the East of Europe on a family-history fishing-trip should be unaware of the chance that they will find out both much less and much more than the package-tour had promised them. It's easy to say, with Albert Camus, 'neither victims nor executioners.' But real history is more pitiless even than you had been told it was. revenge history czechoslovakia david-szmulevski east-germany hungary jewish-diaspora red-army secret-police nazis germans poland stalin camus eastern-europe israel jews ideology communism Christopher Hitchens
c97e486 Placing blame was easier than adding up the mounting figures of what he'd lost. revenge fatigue Alice Sebold
94a7b81 But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge. revenge Margaret Atwood
cd05162 "When we destroy it." She spoke clearly now, steadily now. "If it comes in a form with a dick, I will personally castrate it"." revenge justice Nora Roberts
18eb4ba Sometimes I've survived anger only one minute at a time, by saying to myself again and again that the best kind of revenge is some kind of life beyond this, some kind of goodness. And I can lay no claim to goodness until I can prove that mean people have not made me mean. revenge kindness inspiring Barbara Kingsolver
3ee163a I was imprisoned, and no-one freed me. I cried for help, and no-one freed me. Eventually, I shook off my chains and I returned. They said, 'Why do you no longer love us?' I said, 'I realized that you have always been my chains. revenge djinn mythical progression prison stories Jeff Mach
4516949 That's what it's come to, Miller thought, rubbing a hand across his chin. Pogroms after all. Cut off just a hundred more heads, just a thousand more heads, just ten thousand more heads, and then we'll be free. killing war revenge James S.A. Corey
702b062 What people still do not like to admit is that there were two crimes in the form of one. Just as the destruction of Jewry was the necessary condition for the rise and expansion of Nazism, so . I first noticed this point when reading an essay by the late Ernest Gellner, who at the end of the war had warned Eastern Europeans that collective punishment of Germans would put them under Stalin's tutelage indefinitely. They would always feel the guilty need for an ally against potential German revenge. war revenge genocide eastern-european ernest-gellner germans poland stalin holocaust nazism stalinism world-war-ii ethnic-cleansing jews Christopher Hitchens
7daf53d What can I say? Death is messy. And she had it coming. revenge MaryJanice Davidson
df7b4a8 There in its nasty, stinking, underground home our insulted, crushed and ridiculed mouse promptly becomes absorbed in cold, malignant and, above all, everlasting spite. For forty years together it will remember its injury down to the smallest, most ignominious details, and every time will add, of itself, details still more ignominious, spitefully teasing and tormenting itself with its own imagination. It will itself be ashamed of its imaginings, but yet it will recall it all, it will go over and over every detail, it will invent unheard of things against itself, pretending that those things might happen, and will forgive nothing. Maybe it will begin to revenge itself, too, but, as it were, piecemeal, in trivial ways, from behind the stove, incognito, without believing either in its own right to vengeance, or in the success of its revenge, knowing that from all its efforts at revenge it will suffer a hundred times more than he on whom it revenges itself, while he, I daresay, will not even scratch himself. On its deathbed it will recall it all over again, with interest accumulated over all the years... revenge unforgiveness Fyodor Dostoyevsky
283421e One thing at a time,' said the Boy. 'You must be patient. This is a day of hope and wild revenge. Do not interrupt me. I am a courier from another world. I bring you golden words. Listen!' said the Boy. 'Where I come from there is no more fear. But there is a roaring and a bellowing and a cracking of bones. And sometimes there is silence when, lolling on your thrones, your slaves adore you. revenge boy goat golden-words hyena Mervyn Peake
a55c0de Revenge and rational thought never sleep together. revenge thought Kevin Hearne
7d244b6 I shouldn't have taken a vow of silence, I told myself. What did I want? Nothing much. Just a memorial. But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge. revenge vow-of-silence Margaret Atwood
451a9a4 "Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come," Tuek said. "Speed is a device of Shaitan. Cool your sorrow-we've the diversions for it; three things there are that ease the heart-water, green grass, and the beauty of woman." revenge woman sorrow heart device green-grass shaitan diversions speed water Frank Herbert
a50f21c "Her gaze wavered towards one of the books on the sales counter beside the register, a hardcover copy of Shakespeare's Hamlet with many of the pages dog-eared and stained with coffee and tea. The store owner caught her looking at it and slid it across the counter towards her. "You ever read Hamlet?" he questioned. "I tried to when I was in high school," said Mandy, picking up the book and flipping it over to read the back. "I mean, it's expected that everyone should like Shakespeare's books and plays, but I just...." her words faltered when she noticed him laughing to himself. "What's so funny, Sir?" she added, slightly offended. "...Oh, I'm not laughing at you, just with you," said the store owner. "Most people who say they love Shakespeare only pretend to love his work. You're honest Ma'am, that's all. You see, the reason you and so many others are put-off by reading Shakespeare is because reading his words on paper, and seeing his words in action, in a play as they were meant to be seen, are two separate things... and if you can find a way to relate his plays to yourself, you'll enjoy them so much more because you'll feel connected to them. Take Hamlet for example - Hamlet himself is grieving over a loss in his life, and everyone is telling him to move on but no matter how hard he tries to, in the end all he can do is to get even with the ones who betrayed him." "...Wow, when you put it that way... sure, I think I'll buy a copy just to try reading, why not?" Mandy replied with a smile." revenge shakespeare grief loss reading diffcult dog-eared bookstore coffee tea geek nerd hamlet classic Rebecca McNutt
84364bd "My God, Justin, do you hate him so?" "Bah!" said his Grace..."does one hate an adder? Because it is venomous and loathsome one crushes it underfoot, as I shall crush this Comte." hatred revenge death cold-hatred Georgette Heyer
5ea3d09 "If the secret core of potlatch is the reciprocity of exchange, why is this reciprocity not asserted directly, why does it assume the "mystified" form of two consecutive acts each of which is staged as a free voluntary display of generosity? Here we encounter the paradoxes of forced choice, of freedom to do what is necessary, at its most elementary: I have to do freely what I am expected to do. (If, upon receiving a gift, I immediately return it to the giver, this direct circulation would amount to an extremely aggressive gesture of humiliation, it would signal that I refused the other's gifts -- recall those embarrassing moments when elderly people forget and give us last year's present once again ... ) ...the reciprocity of exchange is in itself thoroughly ambiguous; at its most fundamental, it is destructive of the social bond, it is the logic of revenge, tit for tat. To cover this aspect of exchange, to make it benevolent and pacific, one has to pretend that each person's gift is free and stands on its own. This brings us to potlatch as the "pre-economy of the economy," its zero-level, that is, exchange as the reciprocal relation of two non-productive expenditures. If the gift belongs to Master and exchange to the Servant, potlatch is the paradoxical exchange between Masters. Potlach is simultaneously the zero-level of civility, the paradoxical point at which restrained civility and obscene consumption overlap, the point at which it is polite to behave impolitely." revenge freedom potlatch generosity politeness gifts vengeance Slavoj Žižek
42bfcd3 I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus) revenge quotes Rudyard Kipling
bfbc608 "Si, de repente lo vi asi: la mayoria de la gente se engana mediante una doble creencia erronea: cree en el eterno recuerdo (de la gente, de las cosas, de los actos, de las naciones) y en la posibilidad de reparacion (de los actos, de los errores, de los pecados, de las injusticias.Ambas creencias son falsas. La realidad es precisamente al contrario: todo sera olvidado y nada sera reparado. El papel de la reparacion (de la venganza y el perdon) lo lleva a cabo el olvido. Nadie reparara las injusticias que se cometieron, pero todas las injusticias seran olvidadas"." revenge justice Milan Kundera
11b6adb She had to strive to make every thought obedient to the love of Christ whatever violent feelings churned within her. She had to take her every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and leave no room for anger and jealousy and thoughts of revenge. jealousy revenge love obedient christ thought Francine Rivers
bc02268 Only Catherine has the capacity to change and mature, although here...our heroine pays a dear price for this change. And she does take a form of revenge on both her father and her suitor: she refuses to give in to them. In the end, she has her triumph. revenge triumph Azar Nafisi
af83fcc Oh, the pain of it, thought Lee, thinking about his children, oh! the exquisite pain of unrequited love. The only authentic wound, the sweet curse they inflict on you, the revenge of heterosexuality. revenge heterosexuality wound Angela Carter
d5e2067 He wanted the world to believe that he was a horse rider. So let him ride his horses at the bottom of the ocean. revenge murder the-last-don mario-puzo Mario Puzo
c21fcc5 What I'm going to do is pry every stinking tag off these f.ing chairs and make a f.ing collar and throw that cat right in Connor's puked-up face. Pale turd. revenge old-people John Updike
209a32c Nothing will bring me peace except revenge. revenge the-green-knight peace Iris Murdoch
a162321 I would hear him screaming, I would watch him bleed, I would tear his flesh piece by piece before I would worry about AEthelflaed. This was family. This was revenge. revenge Bernard Cornwell
59741dd Remembering the treatment that had been accorded the Knights and soldiers of St. Elmo, the Maltese inhabitants of Senglea took no prisoners. Hence there arose the expression (used in Malta to this day) 'St. Elmo's pay' for any action in which no mercy is given. war revenge st-elmo retribution Ernle Bradford
89005ea "Anger, resentment, jealousy, desire for revenge, lust, greed, antagonisms, and rivalries are the obvious signs that I have left home. And that happens quite easily. When I pay careful attention to what goes on in my mind from moment to moment, I come to the disconcerting discovery that there are very few moments during the day when I am really free from these dark emotions, passions and feelings. Constantly falling back into an old trap, before I am even fully aware of it, I find myself wondering why someone hurt me, rejected me, or didn't pay attention to me. Without realizing it, I find myself brooding about someone else's success, my own loneliness, and the way the world abuses me. Despite my conscious intentions, I often catch myself daydreaming about becoming rich, powerful, and very famous. All of these mental games reveal to me the fragility of my faith that I am the Beloved One on whom God's favor rests. I am so afraid of being disliked, blamed, put aside, passed over, ignored, persecuted, and killed, that I am constantly developing strategies to defend myself and thereby assure myself of the love I think I need and deserve. And in so doing I move far away from my father's home and choose to dwell in a "distant country." -- jealousy revenge love rivalry hurt resentment lust father Henri J.M. Nouwen
8c00707 Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents. violence revenge T.H. White
294f9db A strike within the realm of the professional never justifies retribution in the realm of the personal revenge wisdom tit-for-tat retaliation retribution Kelley Armstrong
f559cea "Now he wondered what use it would be. For Kaspar's death would not bring back his father, Elk's Call at Dawn, or his mother, Whisper of the Night Wind. His brother, Hand of the Sun, and his little sister Miliana would remain dead. The only time he would hear the voice of his grandfather, Laughter in His Eyes, would be in his memory. Nothing would change. No farmer outside Krondor would suddenly stand up in wonder and say, "A wrong has been righted." No boot-maker in Roldem would look up from his bench and say, "A people has been avenged." revenge perspective Raymond E. Feist
9a93031 Banal sexism aside, I find myself tempted to read as one thick stacked act of revenge for all that life withheld from Emily. But the poetry shows traces of a deeper explanation. As if anger could be a kind of vocation for some women. It is a chilly thought. revenge poem poetry wuthering-heights emily-bronte sexism Anne Carson
ea639a3 Her favourite song was 'God Has Blotted Them Out,' which was meant to be about sins, but really was about anyone who had ever annoyed her, which was everyone. She just didn't like anyone and she just didn't like life. Life was a burden to be carried as far as the grave and then dumped. Life was a Vale of Tears. Life was a pre-death experience. revenge death religion god life misanthropy vengeance Jeanette Winterson
37c95e4 Everything took on the color of blood. revenge military-industrial-complex distortion bias Barbara W. Tuchman
500dc65 What it had done, however, was to give him a feeling of power and control that had taken him back to how he used to feel every day. revenge empowered controlling-people emasculation violent-death misogynist patriarchy power Val McDermid
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