Reckoning Quotes

“Stupid bitch,' Tori muttered. 'oh let's take the necromancer with the superpowers to the cemetery. Of course you aren't going to raise the dead, you silly girl.”
― Kelley Armstrong, The Reckoning

“Screw caution," Tori said. "I'm outta here." We looked at her. "Well, I am. As long as someone comes with me." We kept looking at her. She sighed. "Fine, but when everything goes to hell, just remember, I get to blame you guys, because I wanted to leave right away.”
― Kelley Armstrong, The Reckoning

“Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2

“no' when no one answered, Derek looked from face to face, then settled his glower in me. 'absolutely not.'
'um, I was the one keeping my mouth shut' I said.”
― Kelley Armstrong

“Reckoner Super Plan for Killing Regalia...

Step One: find Regalia, then totally explode her. Lots and Lots.

Step Two: put Val on decaf.

Step Three: Mizzy gets a cookie.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Firefight

“Okay," I began. "You’re too old for me. You’re scary. It’s creepy that you were so all over my mom and now you’re all over me.”
― Lili St. Crow, Reckoning

“There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be reckoning yet ... it may be sooner or it may be later, but it's a coming as sure as the Lord is just”
― Soloman Northup, Twelve Years a Slave

“And I knew that tone, the pleading, the fear that was sitting like a spiked ball in his chest. He'd been left behind too, maybe more than I had.”
― Lili St. Crow, Reckoning

“In every life, there comes a day of reckoning - a time when unsettled scores demand retribution, and our own lies and transgressions are finally laid bare.”
― Emily Thorne

“I've talked to Bruce about it. He'll have kittens, and Hiro will have penguins, and August will completely throw a fit, but I've made up my mind. It's up to you”
― Lili St. Crow, Reckoning

“I choose many voices to consider and reckon with, rather than just one to tolerate.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“The price of stability is unpreparedness.”
― Anthony Ryan, Queen of Fire

“what does it mean to be descendant
of something monstrous?

to still love the monster?”
― Sam Sax, Madness

“All of us have days in our lives, perhaps three or four at the most, when what we might call disparate events converge.”
― Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion

“Let freedom ring / let the white dove sing / let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning.

As epigraph to Part III, quoting lyrics, Gretchen Peters, "Independence Day”
― Don Winslow, The Force

“I shouldn’t even exist. Neither should they. What’s the difference between destroying me and destroying them?” - Lexia Graham”
― Katheryn J. Avila, Reckoning

“Two mathematicians were having dinner. One was complaining: ‘The average person is a mathematical idiot. People cannot do arithmetic correctly, cannot balance a checkbook, cannot calculate a tip, cannot do percents, …’ The other mathematician disagreed: ‘You’re exaggerating. People know all the math they need to know.’

Later in the dinner the complainer went to the men’s room. The other mathematician beckoned the waitress to his table and said, ‘The next time you come past our table, I am going to stop you and ask you a question. No matter what I say, I want you to answer by saying “x squared.”‘ She agreed. When the other mathematician returned, his companion said, ‘I’m tired of your complaining. I’m going to stop the next person who passes our table and ask him or her an elementary calculus question, and I bet the person can solve it.’ Soon the waitress came by and he asked: ‘Excuse me, Miss, but can you tell me what the integral of 2x with respect to x is?’ The waitress replied: ‘x squared.’ The mathematician said, ‘See!’ His friend said, ‘Oh … I guess you were right.’ And the waitress said, ‘Plus a constant.”
― Michael Stueben, Twenty Years before the Blackboard

“Whatever it is you have been called to do, if you will invest time into perfecting it, you will soon be reckoned among the great in your society.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“Elaborate schemes they dream and instill

Young minds, washed brains designed to kill... for real

Cold hearted, shit startin', cussin' and insane fussin'

Saggin' and braggin' about pettiness and frontin'... but it's nothin'

Irrelevant but sellin' it to lost souls and tricks

Who knows the wind blows 'til the gods' come crushin'

Better recognize 'cause it won't be televised... the reckoning”
― T.F. Hodge

“There will come a day of reckoning...
All this pleasure will have to be paid for, and it will be terrible.”
― Paul Bowles

“If a fae sorcerer, or sorcerers, are using necromancy to raise the dead they need to be stopped. No matter what happens, we need to bring a reckoning.--Catherine”
― Chris Pavesic, The Caelimane Operation

“Distraught with the comprehension of his demise, a shovel stood dormant, in the ditch of her own digging. Now sheltered from the glare of greed and ambition, were the distasteful thoughts sprinkled in fool’s gold.”
― Don Swann II

“The reckoning is how we walk into our story; the rumble is where we own it. The goal of the rumble is to get honest about the stories we're making up about our struggles, to revisit, challenge, and reality-check these narratives.”
― Brené Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.

“Řekněte pane jaká je v tom moudrost, abych já byl pověšen, protože jste se zamiloval do pitomé Agáty. Ani se už nedovíte, jak jsem se zamiloval já. Ta krásná smutná dívka byla služkou na zámku a já jsem se pak na ten zámek dostal taky jako sluha, pane. A to se nedovíte, protože mě oběsí.”
― Milan Kundera, Jacques and His Master: An Homage to Diderot in Three Acts

“If you will invest the maximum amount of time in hard work, polishing and building your own land of promise, you will become great in life. You will become exceptional. You will become a specialist and the world would want to reckon with you.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“The trouble with what is unthinkable is that at times it must be thought about.”
― John Lukacs, The Hitler of History

“The covid regimes were popularized in present day democracies and were most dystopian and oppressive in places that once believed themselves "free and democratic." If there is indeed a reckoning to be had, democracy must not be spared from the conversation.”
― Aviel Oppenheim, Ethics of Vaccine Passports: A Poor Bargain

“In an earthbound perspective that excludes all consideration of God, there will be no day of reckoning. The good will die young, nice guys will finish last, and the murderers, rapists, and warmongers will never be held accountable for their actions. Humans will continue to be free to act like animals, biting and devouring one another. If there is no God, or Creator (no one outside the cycle) all our greatest feats and accomplishments will disappear when we die. Like chasing the wind, whatever we gain, we will eventually lose. Not only will we be forgotten when everyone we know dies, but even the greatest legacies will equate to nothing on the day that the sun burns out and the human race is no more.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“I thought about all of the times, growing up, when I had sat in class and heard a white classmate say, "Well, my ancestors didn't own slaves," or heard a political commentator on television say, "Why are we still talking about slavery? People need to get over it." Or a politician say, "We can't wallow in the past. It's time to focus on the future." When I hear these deflections, I think of all the ways this country attempts to smother conversations about how its past has shaped its present. How slavery is made to sound as if it happened in a prehistoric age instead of only a few generations ago.”
― Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

“This is a George Floyd moment for both Israelis
and Palestinians. Actually scratch that.
It’s a George Floyd moment for both Americans
who sympathize with Israel and Americans
who sympathize with Palestinians. It’s a holy fuck
moment for anyone who cares about human life.
Upstairs the bathtub is filling with blood.
How big would the swimming pool have to be
to hold all the red salty stuff spilled the last week?
Who will recline in the fresh blood bath?
What swimmers will adjust their goggles
and freestyle the miles of blood?”
― Jeffrey McDaniel