Quotes About Responsibility

The media—stenographers to power.

Only when the media shines a spotlight can people know and decide whether to act.

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

Standing firm is great, kiddo, but so is admitting you made a mistake and fixing it.

Well, it is so difficult right now when you look out on the road and how fast people go and the more and more cars you see out there, for teenagers, you'd think a kid that literally, a few years before, was sitting back in a car seat in the back seat is now behind the wheel.

So many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old. Well, that's just not going to happen.

A lot of [Republicans] know what [Trump] did was wrong. And they didn't have the courage to say it.

People hurt each other all the time just by being. What matters is that when you hurt someone, you do what you can to make it right.

The army don't teach enlisted men how to fly," I said, trying to hold onto my dignity. "We gotta do that for ourselves.

We'll fix it in the morning, sweetheart. You can't save the world after 1:00 a.m. Not even you.

He'd always known that shit rolled downhill, but he never knew tears did the same thing.

Okay, basics. The three S's: shower, shit, and shave—every man could do that in his sleep. So he did. He managed his complete morning routine in a mental and emotional coma.

Now go bring back someone's head on the front of your Lexus for Mommy, okay?" Ellery's mother to him

I'm starting to think being a grown-up isn't going to school or even paying your own rent. It's learning to fake it when you got no other choice.

Brandon's furious desire to care for Taylor surprised him, but it also invigorated him. He'd been waiting all his adult life to have a prince come sweep him off his feet. Imagine his shock to find that he was the prince, and he had a job to do.

What if he bites someone?" "He hardly chews his food.

Yeah, but I didn't like him and you still did it!

Because you were saying them about somebody's son," he snarled. "Why not your own?

I hope so. Watch Dane. Mom's going to go get some Kool-Aid for both of us." Mason would figure out later that Mom's Kool-Aid had a healthy dollop of vodka, but then, who could blame her at that point?

Davy's boyfriend—husband, dammit, husband!—had a niece who they cared for. Henry had forgotten about that until he'd walked up onto their porch, and suddenly he couldn't decide who was dirtier, his brother for coming out to the family and walking away or Henry for getting kicked off the farm and dragging all his problems with him.

Ace really only had one goal in life, and it was to keep his skinny blond dirty bomb of a boyfriend from detonating and killing them all.

It's not privilege when it makes you feel awful, when it cripples your ability to do good things in the world.

He was a sin-eater, someone who cleaned up the sins of others, allowed the government to function without the onus of facing what they'd done.

Cheever was silent then, appalled, because it sort of hit him. He was going through hell, but his brother had already been there. And his brother was mad because Cheever had gone and foisted his hell on somebody else.