Quotes About Responsibility

Now she was alone; she must take care of herself. When you must do that, then you do it and you are grown up.

A good horseman always takes care of his horses before he eats or rests.

San Francisco, September 13, 1915 Don't buy the horse unless you are sure it is gentle. I do not want you hurt while I am gone or any other time for that matter.

Grace sat up, too frightened to make a sound, and even Laura was horrified, for the stool lay in two pieces. Then Pa laughed. "Never mind, Grace," he said. "You only unscrewed it all the way. But," he said sternly, "you stay off this stool, after this.

A big boy nine years old is old enough to remember to mind,' he said. 'There's a good reason for what I tell you to do,' he said, 'and if you'll do as you're told, no harm will come to you.'" "Yes

You deserve it, she hissed. You deserve it, do you hear me?

Doing nothing," Inez said, "is a choice in its own way. When you do nothing, you still do something.

And I want you to know, Max said kindly to him, I don't hold you in any way responsible. Lysander frowned. For what? For sending me an assistant who wanted to take over New York with the help of a virgin-raping,mundane-eating demon. Lysander stiffened. I am not 'in any way responsible' for that! You did authorize the assignment, I reminded him. Well, I— I— Lysander cleared his throat. The decision was made at headquarters. All I did was sign the standard paperwork.

To be a wife was to cook. Not to eat—that was a different matter entirely—but to cook.

Getting adequate sleep is a sign that the world doesn't need your attention for seven to nine hours each day. It keeps spinning as usual in its orbit. Who wants to admit that?

You have fewer than 1,000 Saturdays with each child in your care before they're grown up.

Ignorance of the outcome doesn't exempt you from the consequences.

What's the point of obsessing over cholesterol or bike helmets or even cigarettes when the biggest threats to our children are being released back into society every day? Yes, maybe 'some' of them have reformed, but what about the ones who haven't? Doesn't anyone realize that one 'touch', one 'time' will destroy a child's life ten times faster than a pack-a-day habit?

How about giving your old man a break here, huh, Chirp? Chirp is dead, I hear myself say and watch the flat words destroy his pleasure. You killed her, and now you have to deal with me because I'm what's left.

Meredith's a big girl. She knows how babies are made, don't you, Mer? I nod, numb and weary. 'Course I do. Same guy that taught you taught me.

You have to hit it," she told herself. "This could be life or death." She positioned her rifle and made herself comfortable on the rock. Chief had disappeared. A hawk screed high overhead. She

Why is everything always my decision? I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else. Oh, I remembered now. Great, I whispered. - Anita to Jean-Claude

I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.

What did they think I was going to do, steal a body? If I wanted to, I could empty the damn place and get every corpse to play follow the leader. Perhaps that was why I needed watching. Perhaps. --Anita Blake

I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I'm not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.

Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.

I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I'm the one that you get to see. Once.

Give a truly good person power, and they're still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they're still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn't evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don't always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys. -Edward