Crime Quotes

It was odd but I couldn't jump the chasm of missing evidence to the conclusion Todd was making.

~ S.a. Tawks

Most would probably call it a dumb idea, but considering my wants it was a good idea.

~ S.a. Tawks

It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun.

~ S.a. Tawks

What does that quote mean to you? Can you explain the concept behind it and not just repeat the pretty phrase to me?

~ S.a. Tawks

Looking back really does make you wonder, but the truth is it doesn't change a thing.

~ S.a. Tawks

He seemed like he was baiting me to ask, like he wanted me to know his troubles but wanted me to ask first.

~ S.a. Tawks

Everyones' worst problems weigh the same, and it's up to you how heavy that weight is and how much you let it drag you down.

~ S.a. Tawks

I didn't appreciate the moment as much as I should have while living it, but I can attribute that to my poor emotional state and hindsight.

~ S.a. Tawks

Other times, when existential crisis mode kicked in, I flirted with the idea of giving up and drifting whichever way gravity and wind moved me.

~ S.a. Tawks

Misadventure was my primary compass and I followed it without caring if I pissed off one person or a whole bunch of people.

~ S.a. Tawks

It was a start, and a start is all anyone needs to put an end to something.

~ S.a. Tawks

It was my duty as a mother to invade your privacy and search your room. I'm just glad you weren't hiding an illegal drug.

~ S.a. Tawks

In a world of differing opinions, mentally unstable people and complete psychopaths, it was the type of simplistic notion that some people wouldn't want to follow or ignorance would just simply not allow them to understand.

~ S.a. Tawks

I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care.

~ S.a. Tawks

My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges.

~ S.a. Tawks

I wasn't pissed off, I was just robbed of most of the cocky confidence my cunningness had created.

~ S.a. Tawks

I liked learning but the challenge was that my mother's need to turn education into a competition was ruining the experience for me.

~ S.a. Tawks

Too much negativity can make the strongest structures dilapidate.

~ S.a. Tawks

I found that disturbing the night's calm ambience was almost as gratifying as the ambience itself.

~ S.a. Tawks

Maybe I should have given more thought to her thoughts.

~ S.a. Tawks

Self-harm appealed to my sadness but I didn't let it coax me.

~ S.a. Tawks

Would I come off as a creepy-stalker-kind-of-guy or would it demonstrate that I cared?

~ S.a. Tawks

I'd developed an apology-is-much-better-than-asking-for-permission mentality.

~ S.a. Tawks

There were no snooty commuters at this late hour. They were home snug in their beds where they should be.

~ S.a. Tawks

After spending the previous night the way I had, I felt I could afford to lose some of the daytime to sleep.

~ S.a. Tawks

Maybe if you allowed me to blow off some steam, I wouldn't have been so frustrated when I had to find higher order fucking derivatives.

~ S.a. Tawks

Acting with confidence, but inside lacking certainty, I'd told her I could.

~ S.a. Tawks

They had to be untrustworthy enough to buy a minor alcohol but trustworthy enough to not walk away with my money.

~ S.a. Tawks

Misadventure asked what the harm was partaking in one more and I decided not to argue with her.

~ S.a. Tawks

I'll tell you what you want to hear. I mean, what I need to hear. I'll tell the truth.

~ S.a. Tawks

When John-Joseph Heller's fights became too much of a sure thing, story has it he moved on to more risky fights with grown men and even starved dogs. Though he was scarred often, he was never beaten. But as he brought each opponent to his knees, John-Joseph Heller was also growing up and his vision began to extend further than the ring.

~ S.c. Barrus

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken.

~ Jess C. Scott

Ordinary men commit extraordinary evil all the time. Trust me.

~ Mindy Mejia

Just because something isn’t good doesn’t mean it’s bad.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

It wasn’t Hell; only fools and drama queens throw that word around about a place like Gotham. It was worse, in a way, because it was manmade. There wasn’t any timeless malevolence behind it all, it was just… what human beings can descend to when they let themselves forget they can be heroes.

~ Chris Dee

A risk to own anything: a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around, not enough cars, shoes, cigarettes. Too many people, too few things. What there is must go into circulation, so that everyone can have a chance to be happy for a day. That is the theory; hold to the theory and to the comforts of theory. Not human evil, just a vast circulatory system, to whose workings pity and terror are irrelevant. That is how one must see life in this country: in its schematic aspect. Otherwise one could go mad. Cars, shoes; women too. There must be some niche in the system for women and what happens to them.

~ J.m. Coetzee

No rational person would intentionally commit an act of evil, for everyone knows that it would bring the wrath of the community upon him. (Socrates)

~ Karen Essex

Forgive me, God, for I'm about to sin like fuck.

~ Clarissa Wild

The deal is this. You be the hero. Come down here. Unarmed. Come inside with your hands on your head. I'll let everybody go. Then I'll blow your fucking head off. Sir. How's that for a deal? You buy it?

~ Richard Bachman

This was like watching murder. Defilement. And it was something worse than either of those things. Even among his family, black trade as they were, books were holy things.

~ Rachel Caine