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“Revenge loses sight of the end in the means, but it's end is not wholly bad - it wants the evil of the bad man to be to him what it is to everyone else. This is proved by the fact that the avenger ...”
“Vae Victus -- suffering to the conquered. Ironic that now I was the one suffering. Not anything as pedestrian as physical pain. Rather the cruel jab of impotent anger -- the hunger for revenge. I d...”
“Revenge is really a perverse form of communication, a twisted attempt at repair.”
“What is your itinerary?""To meet my maker.""Ah. Well. You're in luck. And what do you want to say to your maker?""A most mechanical and dirty hand [laughs]. I shall have such revenges on you...both...”
“I'd be glad of a retaliation that wouldn't recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends: they wound those who resort to them, worse than their enemies.”
“There is some comfort in killing that which has hurt you, but it is cold comfort. It'll destroy things inside of you that the original pain wouldn't have harmed. Sometimes it's not a question of wh...”
“What do you want from me? Revenge? Sorrywe're all out of revenge today!”
“Was he seeking shelter from death? Malcolm could not have that.”
“Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause,But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.”
“Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.”
“Suddenly revenge is so close he can actually taste it. It tastes like steak, rare.”
“Don't be trying to give back pain for pain...You can't get even measures in business like this.”
“Yes, said Talon, his voice the hiss of a coiled serpent.”
“Perhaps only that revenge is ultimately unsatisfying," Snow said. "It can make up for evil done to you, but can destroy the remaining good in your life.”
“Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.”
“Vengeance is pointless, but certain men do not have a place in the world we sought to construct”
“Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct”
“He was almost at his door when Viks earsplitting shriek resounded down the corridor. Tom was glad for the excuse to sprint back toward him. Vik?He reached Viks doorway as Vik was backing out of it....”
“Abruptly, Adrik snarled, 'I'm glad Sergei's dead. I'm just sorry I didn't get to wring his neck myself.''You'd need two hands for that,' said”
“That's when I learned the hardest truth about vengeance: it had no logical end, served no real purpose, except perhaps to delay grief.”
