Quotes About Influence

Other people's judgments were meaningless unless you allowed them to mean something.

Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.

It was true, when you saved someone, they belonged to you in some small way, but it was also true that you belonged to them. They would stay with you and enter into your dreams and your thoughts, as you would enter into theirs.

Such things as smiles can be weapons as well.

Words were everything, stories were more powerful than any weapon, books changed lives.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.

If you believed in something strongly and give it enough credence, it could appear right in front of you. Though it had been created in your mind, it would claim a presence in the real world, a monster at your door, a demon pulling at your coat sleeve.

There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and song lyrics, in promises and vows.

Witches are made, not born.

Nature could be shifted, but not controlled.

he wants to be completely in control. In a way, it's a relief. ...[she] doesn't have to think when she's with him, or make a decision, or state a preference.

Life was short, it was over in an instant, but some things lasted. Hate and love, kindness and cruelty, all lingered and, in their case, all had been passed on.

Each time she sees it she is reminded of how some things are never over they stay with you until they are a part of you, like it or not

And yes, he supposed his mother had something to do with that as well, for she'd been the one who had opened that world to him. Don't think you know everything, when you know so little. Stop wasting your time and read this.

I used to think there was a plan, a rough plan, but a plan all the same," the doctor admitted. "Now, I believe there are a thousand plans. Every breath, every decision, influences the plan, expands it, shortens it, twists it all around. It's always changing. Those of us lucky enough to make it through the multitude of possible diseases and accidents get old. We get tired. We close our eyes.

The truth is, Helene was always the troublemaker. She had that bad-girl twinkle in her eye, and she always dragged Shelby along, whether it was the time they were caught shoplifting makeup at the Walt Whitman Mall or the time they took the Long Island Rail Road into Manhattan and didn't come home till two a.m.

Quando você quer alguém, essa pessoa tem poder sobre você.

some things you carry around inside you as though they were part of your blood and bones, and when that happens, there's nothing you can do to forget.

And then I realized what love did. It changed your whole world. Even when you didn't want it to.

You're not invisible if you talk.

People who think you can't will certain things into being with the power of your pride are fools, plain as that.

And yet, how much damage could one small book do? How powerful could it be? That was when Sally began to run, because she knew the answer. Words were everything, stories were more powerful than any weapon, books changed lives.

Love was contagious, it passed from soul to soul, it woke a person up and shook her even when she wanted to be left alone.