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Quotes About Change

Mortals do not like uncertainty. They do not like change. Change is frightening. Change is painful." Excerpt From Stepsister
~ Jennifer Donnelly
The fox cannot change her nature and I cannot change mine.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Only education can empty the workhouses and prisons, the slums and rookeries.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
A los mortales no les gusta la incertidumbre. No les gusta el cambio. El cambio da miedo. El cambio es doloroso. -El cambio es un beso en la oscuridad. Una rosa en la nieve. Un camino del bosque en una noche ventosa.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
El cambio es un beso en la oscuridad. Una rosa en la nieve. Un camino del bosque en una noche ventosa.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
No había sentido ningún dolor, sólo temor por él. Creo que fue entonces cuando empezó la revolución. No la de París, ni la de los franceses, sino la mía.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Astrid's eyes widened. 'What happened?' she asked quietly. Becca arched an eyebrow. 'Suddenly you care?' 'Yeah, Becca, I do. A lot.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I hardly recognize you. Where's the gown and the jewellery, little sister? Where are the conch you always carried around? Where's your hair?' Desiderio asked. 'Gone, Des. It's gone. Everything's gone. Cerulea. The palace. Mum and Dad-' Her voice broke.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
El mundo sigue adelante, estúpido y brutal. Pero yo no. Yo no.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get--a cold sick feeling, deep down inside--when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before and an after , a was and a will be . And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Life's all about the revolution, isn't it? The one inside, I mean. You can't change history. You can't change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?
~ Jennifer E. Smith
Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it.
~ Jennifer Echols
I knew exactly what you'd done. I know that feelings. You have to do something. You have to change something radically, because you can't stay like you are for another second, or you're going to explode.
~ Jennifer Echols
You love your music." "I did when I was trying to shut everything out. Now I'm trying to let everything in.
~ Jennifer Echols
That is the way convince people. Or change them and prevent them from hurting whether themselves and others. Art is the most effective form of communication. You can use it to lift the human spirit and make them understand that there is more to life than their next drug use.
~ Jennifer Echols
I gave my dad a thumbs-up. He stared at me. My mom turned to him in the car, asking him, What? What is it? He kept staring at me. My brown hair was an even bigger shock for him than I'd expected. I smiled and waved at him and mouthed, "Welcome home." He put his hand to his eyes. He knew I was finally cured.
~ Jennifer Echols
I like doing things that make me uncomfortable. I try not to have a comfort zone
~ Jennifer Echols
They're taking us to the room to change. Do you think we'll have time for a quickie? Because we never got around to doing it against the wall." He blinked at her. She thought he hadn't heard her. Finally he smiled, slowly at first, his grin becoming broader as she slid her hand onto his thigh. "We will always make time for a quickie," he said. "And that is a wedding vow.
~ Jennifer Echols
They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. "I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. "You grew up, Alex," he said, "just like the rest of us.
~ Jennifer Egan
This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.
~ Jennifer Egan
I go away for a few years and the whole fucking world is upside down Jules said angrily. Buildings are missing. You get strip-searched every time you go to someone's office. Everybody sounds stoned because they're emailing people the whole time they're talking to you. Tom and Nicole are with different people...And now my rock-and-roll sister and her husband are hanging around with Republicans. What the fuck - Jules Jones
~ Jennifer Egan