You can’t be responsible for anyone but you. We all make our own decisions, and pay our own consequences. You can love someone, but you can’t fix them.

—Lyla Payne in By Referral Only

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Because life is like that, isn't it? If you thought of all the tiny things that divert your path one way or another, some good, some bad, you'd never do anything ever again. And some people don't. Some people go through life not really deciding to do much, not wanting to, always too fearful of the consequences to try something new. Of course, that in itself is also a decision.

—Jenny Colgan in The Bookshop on the Corner

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The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequence of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

—Margaret Mead

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What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

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It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer most from the consequences of them.

—Philippa Carr

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In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.

—R. D. Ingersoll

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