#stakes

A little girl robbed you?" Tessa said. "Actually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress with a penchant for violence, who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel." "Easy mistake to make," Jem said. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#mistakes

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#mistakes

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#mistakes

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#mistakes

Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve dealt out? There’s no profit in it, no point to it, and you need sleep. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#mistakes

Then I made a stupid mistake and looked up at him. His eyes met mine, and for a moment, his face was open and vulnerable in the moonlight. I caught a hint of wonder there as we stared at each other. Slowly, he leaned forward. I caught my breath, a tiny gasp escaping. He stiffened, and his expression shuttered closed, eyes going hard and frosty. [...] 'This is getting old,' he said in a voice that matched his eyes. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#vulnerability #winter-prince #mistakes

Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice. ↗

— Stephanie Perkins

#mistakes

You may be trying to claim the woman, his eyes said, but make no mistake, she and the fucking fireplace are mine. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#mistakes

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#copy #heard #i #imitated #mistakes

You forget who submits, Eva,” he said gruffly. “I’ve given up control for you. I’ve bent and adjusted for you. I’ll do anything to keep you and make you happy. But I can’t be tamed or topped. Don’t mistake indulgence for weakness. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#gideon-cross #mistakes