Troublemakers Quotes

“A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when all standards are turned upside-down, Kern. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Flotsam

“Why after the dust settles, someone has to come by and blow at it, stirring it up into the air again?”
― Anthony Liccione

“Verwechsle niemals Zufall mit Absicht“, sagte er. „Oder meine Moral mit Schwäche.”
― Simona Dobrescu, Verdammt. Verliebt.

“You might think of a thought as an invisible, innocuous little thing. Something that barely exists. But a thought is something hard to conceal. Hold a thought and it melts all over your hands. Touch something else and now you’ve left traces of it. Hide it under your shirt and it bleeds through.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Waking Up at Rembrandt's

“THE SERVANTS CALLED them malenchki, little ghosts, because they were the smallest and the youngest, and because they haunted the Duke’s house like giggling phantoms, darting in and out of rooms, hiding in cupboards to eavesdrop, sneaking into the kitchen to steal the last of the summer peaches.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“The phrase ‘Boys will be boys,’ reflects that a male child is expected to be unpredictable and occasionally troublesome.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A pity that she gets so upset about little things, isn't it?"
"Like the time we sneaked the greased piglet into Mrs. Astor's parlor."
Smiling reminiscently, Lillian knelt before the door and worked the pin into the lock. "You know, I've always wondered why Mother didn't appreciate that we did it in her defense. Something had to be done after Mrs. Astor wouldn't invite Mother to her party."
"I think Mother's point was that putting livestock in someone's house does little to recommend us as future party guests."
"Well, I didn't think that was nearly as bad as the time we set off the Roman candle in the store on Fifth Avenue."
"We were obligated to do that, after that salesman had been so rude.”
― Lisa Kleypas, It Happened One Autumn

“This is the thing about bad people. They always have a good side too. (Sarah)”
― G. Gold

“Traditional moral concepts don’t apply! (Consider this an official warning.)”
― G. Gold

“Mr & Mrs Love by Stewart Stafford

The elephant in town remembered,
Mr & Mrs Love were stony pariahs,
Gossip branded them the greatest,
"See You Next Tuesdays" around.

They repeatedly bounced cheques,
Juggled their finances in tax havens,
Pledged charity money and reneged,
Refused to give gifts or Halloween candy.

Then the piper called for his payment,
It came on a day of more wrongdoing,
Served a hefty portion of just desserts,
With a surprise audit by Mr & Mrs IRS.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved”
― Stewart Stafford

“When I was outside waiting for Mom and kicking the ball as hard as I could into the net, I wasn't thinking about being in Marjorie's room with everyone else including the new doctor. Instead, I obsessed over Father Wanderly's trouble comment. I imagined being at a playground and handing out little black bags to all the kids, not just the boys. They opened them and found little hard candies inside, each poisoned with trouble.”
― Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts