Lexi Underwood Quotes

If I want to call somebody's name out, I want to make sure they've done wrong.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.

The man who was excellent, I rewarded him well; who was evil, I punished him well.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are only consequences.

I'm confident ITT will get what it deserves.

Karma is karma. Karma is in life. You do the wrong things, you get the wrong things out of it.

They want to do the right thing, most people. For that little core that doesn't want to do the right thing and gets away with it routinely, most people want to see them get a good whupping. And I am your girl.

If I do something wrong, make me pay for it.

He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.

I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.

The stories are most often about justice. In her stories, those who commit injustice, or act tyrannically, come to no good. They are punished.

Evil gains work their punishment.