“Trouble is a great deal of fun, and crimes committed without malice are usually forgiven among peers.”

“You are a great deal of trouble, Jace Herondale”

“The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.”

“Many people boast of going years without a vacation. But this is a sign of trouble — not commitment.”

“Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book.”

“Remarriage is or is not approved in shastra; I have no authority to speak on this subject. But I surely cannot go on without saying this much, that remarriage has helped a great deal in stopping crime in Fiji.”

“The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present—they are real.”

“There are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven.”

“Nobody, as long as he moves among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.”

“The great majority of crimes committed in bourgeois society are either direct infringements of property rights or are indirectly connected with property.”