Quotes About Responsibility

I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.

I never have people tell me their stories. I usually have to figure them out myself. Because I know that if people tell me stories, they will expect them to be remembered. And I cannot guarantee that. There is no way to know if the stories stay after I'm gone. And how devastating would it be to confide in someone and have the confidence disappear? I don't want to be responsible for that.

Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.

Pride is allowed to have an element of worry, especially when you are a mother.

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

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else falling in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

It's up to you, not fate.

That air. The air afterwards. I wanted to breathe it in. It felt right to breathe it in. Because we were breathing them in, weren't we? And the building. We were breathing it all in. And I thought, there's a part of this that's actually a part of me now. I now have that responsibility. I am alive, and I am breathing, and I can do the things this dust can't do.

It's up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.

We're librarians, sir. And we will not let you check out this future librarian unless your prove to us that you'll take good care of him when he's in your home.

It's always easy to blame other people for holding you back. But sometimes, the only person holding you back is . . . well . . . you.

But there are people you know, and there are people you have a connection with. ... Wasn't that what make us feel responsible-not for what happened, but responsible for you? We always felt responsible for you. That's the nature of connection-not just the attachment, but the responsibility.

We all have the potential to commit the crime. We chose not to. Every single day, we chose not to. I am no different

How could this happen? some of our parents asked us near the end. We knew what they were really asking, and some of us found the grace to say, It was nothing you did.

why do you have to fix the salad? who broke it? i didn't touch it. did you break the salad, mom? if you did, YOU'D BETTER FIX IT!

Get shitfaced, then face the shit.

Choose your actions wisely.

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

Such a strange thing, to hold a six-year-old's hand. Especially a six-year-old you've only just met. A toddler will grab hold of your finger, and someone your own age will clasp on to your whole hand, but with six-year-olds it's something in between, this acknowledgment that they can't be the one to take hold, so you have to do all the holding, folding your hand around theirs, feeling so much bigger and responsible.

The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away.

The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.