Quotes About Change

Second chances are rare and wonderful.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is that life is fast. And it keeps speeding up. Sometimes I lose track of the season—or even the year. And we just have to make the best of it all.

It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.

You can't go back," he says. "Just look forward. You're doing the right thing now.

Although too much time has gone by to miss her, I feel regret that I didn't maintain our friendship. Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are.

That is one of the problems with getting older. There is a distinct lag time between how you see others and how you view yourself. I still thought of myself as looking twenty-four.

I ever stop loving him the way you're supposed to stop loving everyone but the one you're with? If the answer is no, then will the lapse of time or a change of geography really fix the problem? And regardless of the answer, what does the mere question say about my relationship with Andy?

She was generally a happy person but had a tendency to live in the past, making frequent references to "when you kids were little.

No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I am a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to.

My little girls are all grown-up. I remember when the three of you were in diapers, running around at the pool with your little orange water wings. And now look at you," my mom says, so nostalgic that she seems to forget all her gripes with Belinda. And me for that matter.

The feeling of leaving, even when you don't want to. The feeling that sometimes things just can't be fixed.

his unwavering confidence - but now, it feels like a brand of indifference

and then realize it's not Peter I miss, but the idea of what I once thought we shared.

past something

grocery lists. That was back when I thought my

endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.

If you would truly rather be dead than go on living the way you do, you have nothing to lose by trying to change things, have you? Britta said, carefully keeping any trace of pity from her voice. There is more to life than Illica, you now. The world is wide, and full of wonders.

So," Willy said, "why no spring?" "What? Oh! We just don't." "Everybody has spring," he said, like a religious man chiding her for saying there was no God. "The joke goes that we have two seasons: road repair and snow removal. Or is it snow repair and road removal?" To her surprise, he looked a little shocked. "Well," she amended quickly, "it's not always true. Sometimes they run out of money for snow removal.

Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

She gets sick of things fast, it's from being an adult.

He [Ma's Tooth] was part of her a minute ago but now he's not. Just a thing.

Once I was a stupid girl; now I am an angry woman.

No, I mean everything feels different, but it's because I'm different.