When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

It’s hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It’s hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you’ve had him for...

—Yo solo quería tener a alguien que me quisiera en verdad. Como lo que tienes con Robert.—Yo no tengo nada con él—me defendí de inmediato.—Lo quieres—suspiró—Y él te quiere a ti, se nota. Él es...

If I had allowed myself to dwell on revenge, it would turn to bitterness, and bitterness is the worst poison a man can give himself.

And so we know the satisfaction of hate. We know the sweet joy of revenge. How it feels good to get even. Oh, that was a nice idea Jesus had. That was a pretty notion,...

Vengeance, retaliation, retribution, revenge are deceitful brothers; vile, beguiling demons promising justifiable compensation to a pained soul for his losses. Yet in truth they craftily fester away all else of worth remaining.

Humans might have so many roles in life…. yet revenge is not one of them

I WANT DOMINGO MONTOYA YOU SON OF A BITCH!

What thief does not fight to hold what he has?””One that has something better” – Locke Lamora to the Gray king

Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards.

They all laughed when I said I’d become a comedian. Well, they’re not laughing now.

Hold mirth tight against your breast, but answer every injury with bladed heart.

Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.

I want to write a song about retaliation called, “Oh Yeah, and I Faked Every Orgasm…While You Were Out of Town.

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...

Some say that our lives are defined by the sum of our choices. But it isn’t really our choices that distinguish who we are. It’s our commitment to them.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that’s how all this got started. and that’s how it’s going to end.

Revenge never ends until everything and everyone around it is destroyed. A vengeful heart never rests.

You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.

I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder

Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.

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...

A society built upon a foundation of vengeance is a society doomed to destroy itself.

Dude, don’t die out here.

He could pass off the inferior bottles on tables seven and four. Table seven knew nothing of wine, sending back a bottle of Riesling as “corked” because it had bits of cork in it, the...

One day, after practice, he came up behind me, tapped me on the shoulder, and as I turned around, he sucker-punched me and relocated my nose to the other side of my face. What up,...

I hope he died of intestinal cancer in a part of the world where morphine is as of yet undiscovered.

So revenge is obviously a deeply messed-up expression of vindictiveness. It is hard to even call it “evil.” It is just plain insanity. A result of deeply messed-up thinking.

Fool that I am,” said he,”that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself”.

They say revenge is a dish best served cold. This isn’t correct. Revenge is a dish best served lukewarm or at room temperature (depending on the room) with a side of sauerkraut lightly sprinkled with...

My father’s answer was revenge-has always been revenge-and the outcome was just, but not better. Nothing is fixed.

Six months ago when she first came up with the idea to kill Wilson, back when she was living in Memphis, she’d started going to church again. Since she was spending so much time thinking...

She could never take an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. The weak and flaccid parity would make her nearly puke. She wants an eye for a tooth, and a life...

I went to a gun range and shot a man made out of paper. That paper man must have had a brother, and I fear one day that paper man’s brother is going to shoot...

They say grief occurs in five stages. First there’s denial followed by anger. Then comes bargaining, depression and acceptance. But grief is a merciless master. Just when you think you’re free you realize you never...

For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But for the unlucky few who’ve had notoriety forced upon them, infamy can be...

You’re going to enjoy this.

Revenge is like sex, Mister Dresden. It’s best when it comes on slow, quiet, until it all seems inexorable.

I’m a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I’m no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won’t hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.

Yo no tengo hijos. No tengo mujer. Soy un traidor a mi gente, un renegado y ladrón desertor. No soy siquiera honrado. Mi corazón he escogido la venganza, la sangre. El rojo. Sólo soy un...

I mean, who wants to live waking up… at least I don’t want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

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.

She played me with a bad hand, and I fell for it every time.

It’s not about winning, it’s about doing what’s right. And yes, we will do what’s right.

Forgiveness is the virtue of the courageous, the response of the forgiven, the mercy of the just.

Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring.

Fate had a cruel sense of humor. It had been all his fault, anyway, whatever Mick or Gillia told him. Careless preoccupation and utter stupidity. Boyhood ignorance and negligence. He was only getting what he...

Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.

Revenge is not sweet; it is gloomy and a waste of time.

He who sows PEACE will reap PEACE; he who sows TROUBLE will reap TROUBLE.