Quotes About Change

It's not moving on, Libbs. It's moving differently. That's all it is. Different life. Different world. Different rules. We don't ever leave that old world behind. We just create a new one.

I'm trying out Theodore Finche, '80s kid, and seeing how he fits. I fish through my desk for a cigarette, stick it in my mouth, and remember as I'm reaching for my lighter that Theodore Finch, '80s kid, doesn't smoke. God, I hate him, the clean-cut, eager little prick.

I feel homesick for this London I left behind.

I feel the way his hand,warm and firm,fits around mine.He may keep changing,but that never does.

I know life well enough to know you can't count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to. You can't stop people from dying. You can't stop them from going away. You can't stop yourself from going away either.

Me: How can I want you then when I don't want you now?

Yesterday at this time, I didn't even know her.

when life suddenly changes and you're left picking up the pieces. She says it's actually how you pick up the pieces that defines you.

Your hope lies in accepting your life as is now lies before you, forever changed. If you can do that, the peace you seek will follow.

I know life well enough to know you can't count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to.

I wonder if this is the way it will be next year if I come to New York, or wherever I go—me trying to concentrate on college, on life, when all I'm doing is thinking about him. I wonder if he'll come with me, or if our built-in ending is high school.

I am staring at the place where the floor used to be. All I can think is how one minute the floor was there and now it's not. How you could go through an entire day, every day, not thinking about the floor or the ground because you just assume it will always be there. Until it isn't.

Velva Jean, sometimes dreams change, either because they have to or because life has something else in mind for you.

The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing" -Finch

I grew out of my clothes because, it turns out, growing fourteen inches in a summer is easy. It's growing out of a label that's hard.

I remember her smile and her laugh when I was my best self and she looked at me like I could do no wrong and was whole. I remember how she looked at me the same way even when I wasn't.

I take a good long look at her. I know life well enough to know you can't count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to. You can't stop people from dying. You can't stop them from going away. You can't stop yourself from going away either. I know myself well enough to know that no one else can keep you awake or keep you from sleeping. That's all on me too. But man, I like this girl.

So what scares you most? With us?" I give this a little thought. "That you'll be really into me one day and the next day you won't be, and I won't see it coming. Because apparently feelings can change overnight. Maybe it's me. Maybe I'm too much. Or maybe I'm not enough.

This is what happens when people die. They start to disappear if you don't watch it. Not all at once, but a piece here, a piece there.

But come to think of it, after a lifetime of feeling too much, maybe there's actually something to be said for fast and sudden.

Sometimes things end, even if you don't want them to.

Why do some love stories have a shelf life and others last forever?

He knows as well as I do what the Why is. It's everything changing when I was ten. It's the bullying and the fear. So much fear of everything, but mostly death. Sudden, out-of-the-blue death. It's also me being terrified of life. It's the giant emptiness in my chest. It's touching my face or my skin and feeling nothing. This is the Why of me staying home in the first place. And the Why of me eating. And the Why of me ending up here. But that doesn't mean I want to die.

I know life well enough to know you can't count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to.