“I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels
Source: City of Fallen Angels
Charlie Curtis, Chapter 37, p. 339
Source: 2000s, A Bend in the Road (2001)
“I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels
Source: City of Fallen Angels
Mark Manson (1984) American writer and blogger
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 6, “You’re Wrong About Everything (But So Am I)” (pp. 145-146)
“Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene”
Mark Twain book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.”
Thomas Jackson (1824–1863) Confederate general
Last words (May 10, 1863); as quoted in "Stonewall Jackson's Last Days" by Joe D. Haines, Jr. in America's Civil War
“Do the people in Australia call the rest of the world 'Up Over'?”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
“You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.”
David Klass book You Don't Know Me
Variant: The good news is that you may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you havce no control over my future. You don't know me at all.
Source: You Don't Know Me