Jay Asher Quotes

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.

Every person's every action has an effect.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.

In the economic sphere an act, a habit, an institution, a law produces not only one effect, but a series of effects. Of these effects, the first alone is immediate; it appears simultaneously with its cause; it is seen. The other effects emerge only subsequently; they are not seen; we are fortunate if we force them.

I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.

Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.

Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguessed at by the person who threw the stone.

Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.

Everything we do affects other people.

Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

Everything we do impacts someone else's life.

Things always happen in series.

'Saw VI' has a really interesting theme about the ripple effect. Everything you do affects the guy next to you, which affects the guy next to him, which affects her over here. And you might think that what you're doing is not that significant, but just the way you respond to other people makes the world the way it is.

Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.