Sarah Dessen Quotes

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

When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.

One little ripple started today could create a typhoon fifteen years from now.

Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

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.

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

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.

When you make a choice, you change the future.

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

We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.

You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.

Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

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.

Every person's every action has an effect.

What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different.

You cannot do only one thing.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

'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.

Everything is a reaction.