Quotes About Responsibility

All is well--or could be, if we worked to make it so. We were the fingers of the world, putting itself to rights.

There's honest work to be done, Johnny," whispered Griss. "The world is full of work, waiting for you.

What's a mother for but to be blamed?

We try to do right, and we ... we ... they gang up on us, fear and pain and revenge and ... and then we find we've done wrong.

Walk on, yes, but don't walk away from people who need you.

I cannot perch among those who think I am broken. "The thing is, Mother, you weren't broken," I muttered, as if she were standing right next to me. "I am. And it was you who made me this way." Inside my head, the [memory] box twitched like a thing alive.

But I've been called: I've got to go. You know what that's like. You answered the call of your boots.' 'That was a joke!' said Tess, unexpectedly offended.

And neither do you deserve all the blame. Sometimes everyone does their best and things still end up wrong.

This is my garden, all in ard. I tend it faithfully; let it keep faith with me.

But they're sending Orma away, which is my fault, and I played my flute so beautifully that I fell in love with everyone and now I want everything. And I can't have it. And I'm ashamed to be running away.

How was the wolf to blame you if the sheep were roaming free?

You, too, did what was easiest. Don't let that be all you do.

Frightening, isn't it? That something I decide today impacts future generations. Beyond my own flesh and blood.

That's what bitter people did. Pointed the finger and blamed others. Obfuscation was a way of hiding from their own shortcomings and wounds.

You are a coward." Stephen headed for the door. "If you lose her, it won't be because of this citizenship writ or all of the things she has to give up to be your wife. It won't be because you're some magnanimous chap who freed the bird who wanted to fly. It will be because you're afraid." He eased open the door. "And that will mark your reign for the rest of your life.

Why must duty require me to break my own heart?

Set an example. Let this be another lesson to you. Don't do, say, post, or share anything on social media you'd not want anyone to see. That you wouldn't want someone to uncover ten, twenty years from now. It could hinder you from getting a job or some grand opportunity. Character and values matter, Imani.

Big surprise. Mom had instituted a curfew. Like there was something we'd do after midnight that we wouldn't do before.

Next year's fund-raising committee was the last thing I wanted to think about. For the next couple of hours, I planned to focus on this year's team, this year's pitcher. Tonight's date.

I looked behind me to make sure my jeans hadn't caught on fire yet from all the lying.

We warned you, Colette. You fucked around—and you found out.

Sweep everything under the rug for long enough, and you have to move right out of the house.

If you find a way to live as you wish, unnatural though it might be, you'll carry on your shoulders the weight of a thousand wives' wishes. Though aloud all may curse you as a very devil.

If I know something, I am not a victim. Victims don't know the meaning of their suffering. I am an enemy or a collaborator, not a victim.