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Quotes About Impact

get uptake." Some complaints get uptake, which is to say, they come off, they survive a collision.
~ Sara Ahmed
Becoming the race person means you are the one who is turned to when race turns up. The very fact of your existence can allow others not to turn up.
~ Sara Ahmed
You can kill joy by not looking happy enough.
~ Sara Ahmed
I'm glad nothing requires my intervention, because I'm trying hard to maintain my composure. This is the first time I've ever seen a woman naked and I don't think I'll ever be the same.
~ Sara Gruen
It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.
~ Sara Gruen
This war that is coming—are you sure it will harm all in its path? Even the youth? Everything. It will destroy everything. Pax
~ Sara Pennypacker
the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.
~ Sara Zarr
Some people come into your life and leave a mark.
~ Sara Zarr
I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. that's the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
~ Sara Zarr
No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.
~ Sarah Dessen
The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.
~ Sarah Dessen
The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.
~ Sarah Dessen
Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.
~ Sarah Dessen
Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.
~ Sarah Dessen
Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over...
~ Sarah Dessen
It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.
~ Sarah Dessen
Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.
~ Sarah Dessen
Look at it this way: I might be saying you're fat, but at least I'm not punching you in the face.' Are those the only options?' Not always. Just sometimes.
~ Sarah Dessen
It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities. Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.
~ Sarah Dessen
It's never something huge that changes the everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you're busy focusing on the big picture.
~ Sarah Dessen
It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.
~ Sarah Dessen
But wasn't that always the way. It's never something huge that changes everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you're busy focusing on the big picture.
~ Sarah Dessen
One word, Ted replied, dead serious, can change the whole world. There was a moment while we all considered this. Finally Lissa said to Chloe, loud enough for all of us to hear (she'd had a minibottle or two herself), I bet he did really well on his SATs.
~ Sarah Dessen
Mayonnaise is a lot like men, it can make everything much better, adding flavor and ease to your life. Or, it can just be sticky and gross and make you nauseous- Keeping the Moon
~ Sarah Dessen