Quotes About Change

It still feels weird to spend money on Christmas trees. Back when Mom was alive, we'd go out "tree hunting." That's what she called it, anyway. I think other people might use the word "trespassing.

Love is scary: it changes; it can go away.

Pack light and figure the rest out as you go

Just like that, it was over. It was over before I even had a chance.

I know Josh and I will mend things, because we're neighbors, and that's how it goes with people you see a lot. They mend, almost on their own. But not so for Margot and Josh, with her so far away. If they don't talk now, the scar will only harden over time, it will calcify, and then they'll be like strangers who never loved each other, which is the saddest thought of all.

You'd always be mourning what once was. It would always be a little bit . . . less.

Love can go away, or people can, without even meaning to. Nothing is guaranteed.

You treated her like garbage and now you decide you want her back.

En este momento me doy cuenta que no lo amo, que no lo he hecho por un tiempo. Que tal vez nunca lo hice. Porque él está ahí y es mío si lo quiero, lo podría besar otra vez, podría hacerlo mío. Pero no lo quiero. Quiero a alguien más. Se siente raro haber gastado tanto tiempo deseando algo, a alguien, y luego un día, de repente, solo se detiene.

After she left, after that summer, things were the same and they weren't. She and I were still friends, but not best friends, not like we used to be. But we were still friends. She'd know me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away part of yourself.

I wish that things could go back to the way they were between us. That you could be you and I could be me, and we'd have fun with each other, and it would be a really sweet first romance that I'll remember my whole life.

People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they're not. There's no telling how long you will have them near.

I suppose you cannot hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.

Nothing like high school. It's a lot of pressure. And . . . I didn't think you'd be so far away." I

But it feels like everything all around me is shifting in ways I didn't expect, when all I want is for things to stand still.

I thought Genevieve was someone I would know forever. Those people in your life that you just always know, no matter what. But it's not that way. Here we are, three years later, and we're worse than strangers.

started out so easy, so fun, and now we're like strangers. I'll never have that person back, who I knew better than anyone and who knew me so well.

Stormy, can you believe we were ever so young?

El amor es aterrador: Cambia, se puede ir. Es parte del riesgo.

In some ways, he was the same Jeremiah, but in other ways, I could see how this had changed him. Had aged him. Everything took more effort, his jokes, his smiles. Nothing was easy anymore.

you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on

La gente entra y sale de tu vida. Por un tiempo son tu mundo; lo son todo. Y un día ya no lo son.

The thing is, you get used to it. Before you even realise it's happening, you get used to things being different...

As you grow up you spend less and less time outside. Nobody can say "Go play outside" to you anymore to you.