Counterfactual Impact Quotes

#1. Several paragraphs of dense text began to scroll across the screen, an unreadable blur of legalese outlining all the details of enlistment. It would have taken hours to read it all, and then I still probably wouldn't have understood a word of it.

Ernest Cline

#2. Nothing else ever mattered to me, and you weren't even real. All I ever wanted was you.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#3. Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.

Leyla Zana

#4. All politics is local.

Thomas P. O'Neill

#5. You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.

Anthony De Mello

#6. I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues.

Grimes

#7. The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort.

Hua Ching Ni

#8. She looked like a grown-up, a calm, controlled grown-up, and she was glad for that one mercy. No one would be able to judge from her exterior that she was falling apart on the inside or that she didn't feel mature at all.

Carol Oates

#9. Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss...

F Scott Fitzgerald