Quotes About Influence

I do know that there are some things, though, that occur without a direct line of antecedents.

At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen.

Just because you choose to leave a place did not mean that you could escape taking it with you. A man and a woman who lived together long enough might swap traits, until they found parts of themselves in each other. Jettison a personality and you just might find it taking up residence in the heart of the person you loved most.

un arma no era nada si no había una persona detrás.

The catch was this: Power always involved loss of humanity.

if there is a garden of maybes, you are the invasive plant I can't ever get rid of.

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

I've always sort of wondered though: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?

I wonder if anyone works any harder at anything than kids do at being popular.

Because it takes more strength to change someone else's life than it takes to change your own.

I wonder how long it takes before the polish given by nature gets worn off by nurture.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes," I said. "And a good mother?" I lifted my gaze to Charlotte's. "Is someone whose child wants to follow her.

Stories outlive their writers all the time.

I remember reading a novel once that said the native Alaskans who came in contact with the white missionaries thought, at first, they were ghosts. And why shouldn't they have thought that? Like ghosts, white people move effortlessly through through boundaries and borders. Like ghosts, we can be anywhere we want to be.

slowly in the tide of our opinions, oblivious that we are taking on water every time we open our mouths.

Children didn't make their own mistakes. They plunged into the pits they'd been led to by their parents.

Anna is thirteen. Anna lives with her mother. Anna's mother is opposing counsel. How can Anna possibly live in the same home and not be swayed by Sara Fitzgerald?

Well, as long as someone remembers you, you never really die.

Maybe who we were in the past informed who we chose to be in the future.

Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. I

I started to wonder what it might have felt like to live your life in a place someone else had carved.

Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.

Dark matter has a gravitational effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.

long as someone remembers you, you never really die.