Quotes About Impact

It will affect me in ways I can't even begin to get my mind around. This day is a dark crater. There is no room for songs. The songs are wrong. Every song is wrong. And I don't know what to do without music.

You never get involved in the people's lives? The ones you're inhabiting? I shake my head. You try to leave the lives the way you found them. Yeah. But what about Justin? What made that so different? You, I say.

SEE THIS SCREAM-IT'S FOR YOU, SEE THIS HURT-IT'S BY YOU, SEE THIS MARK-IT'S FROM YOU

Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity.

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust.

I had a sense then of how if we truly understood how many of the unimportant things we do will end up outliving us, we'd never be able to go on.

Because what is more transfixing than the sound of people hating you?

I've known this for a while, but you can know something for years without it really hitting you. Now it's hitting me.

Person after person after person... they all converge at one moment, irrevocably changing the course of a thousand more live. As it is with accidents, so it is with love.

All this history...,' Danny says, then trails off. Lost in it. Feeling it connect. Realizing the weight of the world comes largely from its past.

We vote every time we make a choice. We vote with our lives.

Even though the own world doesn't matter to her, she matter to the world

It is real in such an intense way that it feels unreal, too.

I don't know what good I could do. None of us does. That doesn't let us off the hook.

You hear the phrase all the time: a brush with death. What they don't tell you is that the brush has paint on it. And once it touches you, you can't get it off.

the killing blow is sometimes the softest

Ik wil dat ze kon zien hoe geslagen hij is. De uitdrukking op zijn gezicht, zijn leven staat op instorten. Want dan zou ze misschien beseffen, al het was het maar een fractie van een seconde, dat hoewel de wereld haar niet interesseert, de wereld wel geïnteresseerd is in haar.

Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person who never gives to charity.

At one point they'd repeated everything enough, and I wanted to tell them to stop showing the planes hitting the tower. We didn't need to see it again. And yet I didn't turn it off. Because I was hanging on every minute, wanting to be there when whatever was going to happen next actually happened.

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and wants to be every world you say.

We were once the ones who were living, and then we were the ones who were dying. We sewed ourselves, a thread's width, into your history.

I wish she could see how it hits him. The look on his face, his life caving in. Because then maybe she'd realize, if only for a split second, that even though the world doesn't matter to her, she matters to the world.

even though the world doesn't matter to her, she matters to the world

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and wants to be every word you say.