Hodge and Clary, pg. 75
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
Context: "Is there anything I could get for you?" he asked. "Something to drink? Some tea?"
"I don't want tea," said Clary, with a muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them."
"Unfortunately," said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing."
“Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.”
Source: The Book of My Life (1930), Ch. 13 Customs, Vices and Errors
“To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster:
Either condemn or crown your hatred.”
Qui se venge à demi court lui-même à sa peine:
Il faut ou condamner ou couronner sa haine.
Cléopâtre, act V, scene i.
Rodogune (1644)
“We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.”
“Retaliation gets you nothing. Revenge is worthless.”
“The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
