1- Grace Marks : Once you are found with a man in your room, you are the guilty one, no matter how they get in.
2- Grace Marks : The road to death is a lonely highway, and longer than it appears, even when it leads straight down from the scaffold, by way of a rope. And it’s a dark road, with never any moon shining on it, to light your way.
3- Grace Marks : It is remarkable, I have since thought, how once a man has a few coins, no matter how he came by them, he thinks right away he is entitled to them, and to whatever they can buy, and fancies himself cock of the walk.
4- Grace Marks : Guilt comes to you not from the things you have done, but from the things others have done to you.
5- Grace Marks : We are what we remember but we are also preponderantly what we forget.
6- Grace Marks : There is no use crying over spilt milk if you don’t know whether the milk is spilt or not.
7- Grace Marks : To go from a familiar thing into the unknown, is always a matter for apprehension.
8- Grace Marks : A little white lie is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.
9- Grace Marks : Doctors are like crows. When you see two or three of them gathered together, you know there is a death in the offing, and they are discussing it. With the crows, they are deciding which parts to tear open and make off with, and so it is with the doctors.
10- Grace Marks : We didn’t lose. We just haven’t won yet.
11- Grace Marks : I did not want to be led into a grave sin of that kind, though I was afraid that the fiery red anger that was in my heart against him would drive me to it.
12- Grace Marks : It is not always the one who strikes the blow, that is the actual murderer.
13- Mary Whitney : Because men are liars by nature, Grace. They’ll say anything to get what they want out of you, then think better of it and be off on the next boat.
14- Grace Marks : People want a guilty person. If there has been a crime, they want to know who did it.
15- Grace Marks : You should never let your picture be in a magazine or newspaper, if you can help it, as you never know what ends your face may be made to serve by others, once it has got out of your control.
16- Grace Marks : Those who have been in trouble themselves are alert to it in others, sir.
17- Grace Marks : If the world treats you well, sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.
18- Grace Marks : If people wish to believe a thing, if they long for it and depend on it to be true, is it cheating to help them to their own belief? Or is it not rather a charity, a human kindness?
19- Grace Marks : We didn’t lose. We just haven’t won yet.
20- Jeremiah : There are sharp rocks ahead…a disaster. You will cross water three times. You will have much trouble, but all will be fine in the end. You are one of us.
21- Grace Marks : Those who have been in trouble themselves are alert to it in others
22- Grace Marks : When people are afraid, they often behave with cruelty.
23- Grace Marks : Having a thought is not the same as doing it. If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.
24- Grace Marks : The difference between ignorant and stupid is that ignorant can learn.
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