Wrong Quotes

“I put the withered leaf in my mouth first. Then I place the bone on the cut root where my tongue used to be, close my eyes, and concentrate. Immediately, I feel as though my chest is being squeezed, as though my ribs are cracking.

Something is wrong. Something is wrong with me.

I fall to my knees, palms pressed against the ice of the floor. Something seems to twist inside my chest, then split, like a fissure opening in a glacier. The hard knot of my magic, the part of me that has felt in danger of unravelling when I push myself too hard, splits completely apart.

I gasp, because it hurts.

It hurts so much my mouth opens on a scream I cannot make. It hurts so much that I black out.
...
With astonishment, I realise my tongue is in my mouth. It feels odd to have it there. Thick and heavy. I cannot decide if it is swollen of if I am just oddly conscious of it.

'I'm scared,' I whisper to myself. Because it's true. Because I need to know if my tongue belongs to me and will say the things I mean it to. 'I'm so tired. I'm so tired of being scared.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“The first step to self-discovery is to be honest with yourself. Never fool your subconscious.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“We found each other. Killed our way across the mountains to get to each other. Turns out, a good number of Illyrian males wanted to prove they were stronger, smarter than us. Turns out they were wrong.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Since one's moral identity is socially constructed, one must always be prepared to justify -both to others and oneself- why one chose one course of action over another. Justification means showing that my actions actually emanated from values that we all share.”
― Michael Tomasello, A Natural History of Human Morality

“Things will go wrong, that's a human reality. Work diligently, factor in wisdom, challenge beliefs that fail historic testing, & listen deeply to understand anything; act forward on that exploration & discover where things can go right on a solidified quantum level.”
― Dr. Tracey Bond

“Disgust for things external to us thus provides the strongest possible contrast to the sacredness of things internal to our lifeways.”
― Michael Tomasello, A Natural History of Human Morality

“Human beings today thus enter into each and every social interaction with me-motives, sympathetic you-motives, egalitarian motives, group minded we-motives, and a tendency to follow whatever cultural norms are in effect.”
― Michael Tomasello, A Natural History of Human Morality

“Cultural norms do not create morality, only collectivize and objectify it, and institutions may go a step further and sacralize it.”
― Michael Tomasello, A Natural History of Human Morality

“Doing right with the wrong person
and doing wrong with the right person:
this is the source of all disappointment.”
― Augusto Branco

“Banks will only give you a mortgage if you are low risk and if anything goes wrong in the future, they will throw you out onto the street!”
― Steven Magee

“Embrace what is ‘right’ and you will have concurrently rejected what is ‘wrong.’ Embrace what ‘feels right’ and you’re unlikely to reject anything.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Art is never right or wrong; it's always beautiful from the artist's perspective.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“During a suspected abduction, it is better to be wrong earlier than right later. Being right later may result in you never being seen alive again!”
― Steven Magee

“When things go wrong on a budget airline, they tend to go wrong in a big way!”
― Steven Magee

“Don't be scared of the person who admits a work which has done, be scared of the person who does the work and denies it, and owes you as well as consider you as wrong.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“If you feel fighting for 'what is right' is difficult,
Try backing the one who does and subsequently, what you felt earlier will diminish.”
― Mahendar Singh Jakhar

“Do not be fearful when the police threaten you with arrest when you have done nothing wrong.”
― Steven Magee

“When toxic police officers are threatening you with arrest when you have done nothing wrong, you have to think to yourself: What are they up to?”
― Steven Magee

“If a police officer threatens you with arrest when you are doing nothing wrong, you need to place a 911 call for a police supervisor.”
― Steven Magee

“Toxic police officers will elevate the situation with numerous threats of arrest in order to create a situation where they will arrest you when you are doing nothing wrong.”
― Steven Magee

“Three airport police officers threatened to arrest me eleven times while I was on my vacation and doing nothing wrong!”
― Steven Magee

“It is important when a police officer is threatening to arrest you when you have done nothing wrong that you place a 911 call for a police supervisor before they do arrest you.”
― Steven Magee

“What happens when the masses file complaints about police officers? The vast majority of people get a short letter back stating the police officers did nothing wrong.”
― Steven Magee

“I am prepared for death, just in case the science is wrong!”
― Steven Magee

“When your right is wrong, then wrong is your right.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Being hostile might not be correct but not wrong.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“If you don't choose the right, you choose the wrong.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Tamlin yanked off the glove on my left hand.

Pure, bare skin greeted him. No tattoo.

I was sobbing and sobbing, and his arms came around me. Every inch of them felt wrong.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“...doing right in life sometimes means that reason cannot be the sole light by which your moral compass is set.”
― Matt J. Rossano, Supernatural Selection: How Religion Evolved

“Is there something wrong with her?' Madja chewed over the words. 'I do not like that word- wrong. Different, perhaps. Changed.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin