Quotes about Consequences

but they mean well, I remind myself. Is that ever a convincing excuse when there's blood on the carpet?

There is a silence. But sometimes it's as dangerous not to speak.

What will Ofwarren give birth to? A baby, as we all hope? Or something else, an Unbaby, with a pinhead or a snout like a dog's, or two bodies, or a hole in its heart or no arms, or webbed hands and feet? There's no telling. They could tell once, with machines, but that is now outlawed. What would be the point of knowing, anyway? You can't have them taken out; whatever it is must be carried to term.

We're ankle deep in blood, and all because we ate the birds, we ate them a long time ago, when we still had the power to say no.

To go through all that and give birth to a shredder: it wasn't a fine thought. We didn't know exactly what would happen to the babies that didn't get passed, that were declared Unbabies. But we knew they were put somewhere, quickly, away.

Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

That was the trouble with Blood and Roses: it was easier to remember the Blood stuff. The other trouble was that the Blood player usually won, but winning meant you inherited a wasteland. This

Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

We must not forget that the issues of Eternity are settled in Time.

Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.

It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.