Quotes About Responsibility

It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.

Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. (...) What you can't understand, you destroy.

You blame me for this, don't you?" he says. "I don't need to. You're doing a better job.

I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.

I hope you're not smoking in front of her,' Lucia says to him. 'Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia,' he says, irritated.

And being that happy makes me feel guilty. Because I shouldn't be. Not while my mum is feeling the way she is. How I can dare to be happy is beyond me, and I hate my guts for it.

No. But it's like the argument `don't donate to third-world countries because the money mightn't get to them.' People only say that because it makes them feel better about the fact that they do nothing.

You are mistaking me for someone with choices, Froi. I don't have choices.

His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs

She shrugged. "I don't have my horse anymore." " Your horse? The horse was mine." "Don't be ridiculous." Evanjalin continued walking up the track. "You would never have stolen the horse in Sarnak if I didn't encourage you. So I consider it mine.

It is against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.

And won't he grow up to be the healthiest of young men, all because she kept him safe? Ready for the world. Ready to one day conquer it. To travel. Get on a train. Go to work. Get blown out of her life. Maybe she should be having that glass of wine and cigarette after all.

And at last Finnikin understood why he had felt so sorrowful and silent these last few days. He knew how to be Finnikin of the Rock to Evanjalin of the Monts. But he had no idea who to be to Queen Isaboe.

He's gods' blessed. He can do more than one thing at once. Be an idiot and be responsible. He has these multiple skills." "Much like women, but they're not called gods' blessed. They're just called women.

He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.

Placing Raffaela in the path of an oncoming car becomes one of the major priorities of the next ten seconds of my life.

Toto sits up, holding tight to the bar and staring out at the world. He drops a new toy that came with the pram and starts crying. Jimmy picks it up and crouches, looking into his caramel eyes. 'I'm Jimmy,' he whispers, 'and you're the first thing I've ever sort of owned and I don't want to get this wrong.

If the munchkin, whose face I used to wash, tries to explain to us what a sixty-niner is, I'm going to report myself to child protection.

The trust of a people comes from the goodness of their leaders.

I find it hard to believe that she was just seventeen, my age now, when she was married and taken halfway across the world. But then again, Mama was just seventeen when she gave birth to me, so it makes me realize how young we youth of today really are. Maybe we know more or think we know more, or do a lot more, but we haven't been through as much. We'd never be able to cope with the pressures our mothers and grandmothers went through.

They travel in packs and trust each other with all their hearts. It doesn't mean they have the capacity to love more than us, but they do know how to trust. It's because of their queen and her father before her and his father before him. The trust of a people comes from the goodness of their leaders.

It's against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.

When she's gone, Tom dares to look at Sam and then the ultrasound photo again. "You've fathered the elephant man. Someone has to tell her.

Any man can kill, Finnikin. It is a stroke, an action with one's hand. But not every man knows how to lead.