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“Ten years of shadows, but no longer. Light up the darkness, Majesty.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.”
― Norman Mailer

“Thus went my first Court Day.
I think I'm going to puke.”
― Tamora Pierce, Terrier

“A queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Kiss

“It's only their fight club, Liss," I said, having no need for her side of the conversation, "Nothing's going on. They're going to talk punches and kicking and other boring stuff."
Well, actually that stuff was pretty sweet, but I wasn't about to glorify Christian and Mia hanging out.
"Maybe now nothing's going on," she growled, staring stonily ahead. "But who knows what could happen? They spend time together, practice some physical moves, one thing leads to another�"
"That's ridiculous," I said. "That kind of stuff isn't romantic at all."
Another lie, seeing as that was exactly how my relationship with Dimitri had begun. Again, best not to mention that.”
― Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound

“Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?"
The lady smiled. "That's a question rarely asked here at court."
"And why is that?"
"Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience—only much more convincingly.”
― Jim Butcher, Academ's Fury

“Some people will hate you for not loving them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short , that there never more could be , for them or theirs , any laying of heads upon pillows at all , unless the prisioner's head was taken off.

The Attorney General during the trial of Mr. Darnay ”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“I've been working hard at assuming Court polish, but the more I learn about what really goes on behind the pretty voices and waving fans and graceful bows, the more I comprehend that what is really said matters little, so long as the manner in which it is said pleases. I understand it, but I don't like it. Were I truly influential, then I would halt this foolishness that decrees that in Court one cannot be sick; that to admit you are sick is really to admit to political or social or romantic defeat; that to admit to any emotions usually means one really feels the opposite. It is a terrible kind of falsehood that people can only claim feelings as a kind of social weapon.”
― Sherwood Smith, Court Duel

“[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.”
― Alec Baldwin, A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce

“Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Guilty men can hold power their whole lives and be wept for when they pass. Innocent men can be spent like coins because it's convenient. You don't have to have sinned for them to ruin you. If your destruction is useful to them, you'll be destroyed.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Dragon's Path

“Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court. ”
― Christopher Buckley, Supreme Courtship

“McAfee, I could try this case in my sleep and still win."
"Guess that's your plan, then, since you're clearly dreaming.”
― Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls

“Captain, you have heard the charges. How do you plead? Before you answer, you should know that if you plead "guilty" you'll be immediately extradited and U.N.S. law will take over."

"Not guilty."

"Also, it's not very nice to lie in court."

"But it beats extradition.”
― Howard Tayler, Emperor Pius Dei

“Q: But what do you think that the Bible, itself, says? Don't you know how it was arrived at?
A: I never made a calculation
Q: What do you think?
A: I do not think about things I don't think about.
Q: Do you think about things you do think about?
A: Well, sometimes.”
― Scopes Trial

“It was impossible not to stare at each of them, not only because my encounters with the courtly fae are so rare I could count them on one hand, but because they were more lovely and more disturbing than any faerie I had set eyes on before. The Ljosland Folk had seemed shaped from the harsh landscape of their home, a pattern that seemed to extend to the courtly fae of this realm.
The memory blurs, much as I try to pin it like a butterfly in a display case. The best I can do is record the impressions I've retained: a woman with her hair a cascade of wild roses; a man with tiny leaves dotting his face, like freckles. Several faeries with their skin faintly patterned with whorls, like tree rings, or in the variegated shades of bark. Another woman who flashed silver-blue in the sun, as if she were not made of flesh and blood but a collection of ripples.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

“We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would make us believe - some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they‘re born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others - some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men.
But there is one way in this country in which all men are equal (â€�). That institution, gentlemen, is a court.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you‘ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don‘t you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Innocent until proven guilty only works in old movies.”
― Joanna Wayne, 24 Karat Ammunition

“I hated him but I ached for him. I hated him in the way that you could only hate someone you had loved.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“...the people who looked up at the stars and believed they foretold their future. Because they needed to feel that they had a future.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“I thought you said it was forbidden to kill here,â€� I said.
“What I should have said,â€� Lark began, leaning forward, “was that it was forbidden to get caught.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“So I screamed and screamed and, when I was done, when my face was wet with tears and my voice was hoarse and there was nothing else in me to break, that glass of water, the one that the King had told me to move, it shattered into a million pieces.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“She’s tearing the world apart to find me,â€� I breathed in awe.
“She is,â€� Gemini nodded her agreement this time. “But it’s entirely possible Lark would tear it apart to get you back.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“Love is a not a weakness.â€�
“For some of us, it is.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“I think there’s a part of me that calls to you. And a part of you that calls back.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“We were together and so we were whole. It was like coming home, like finding the calm amidst the storm, like peace and passion all at once. It was everything. And it was so powerful that it pulled me completely, entirely under and I never wanted to resurface again.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“He whispered my name like a prayer and I ignited.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“Trying to translate a court order while having a 8th grade education is wild to me. Just do the job you were hired to do, Dana.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“The bail had barely been granted and a faction of the Republican Party of India organized a function in the same hall to felicitate and honour the assailants for having successfully attacked me â€� a fact that, being merely in the public domain, was obviously not something the court would take note of!”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences