Quotes About Change

I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream.

I think of life as a book of stories, he goes on. You move through the stories and the characters change.

Sometimes you think you know what's going to happen next, and then the world surprises you

It was best not to mention the changes that might have occurred, the black hair, for instance, the vacant stares. Best to wrap your arms around the person who'd been missing, for an enchantment is a step out of ordinary life, and when that person returns nothing is the same, not her image in the mirror, not the lines across her palm.

When she'd been married she had been to busy to notice that the world was beautiful. Or perhaps she'd known and had forgotten.

I heard a bitterness that hadn't been there before. Something was changing inside him. He'd had enough of following the rules.

Love could do that to some people, and they wouldn't even know how much they'd missed out on; they simply remained in place where love had left them, while the whole world spun around.

He kept thinking about the life span of a mayfly, and all the time he had wasted, and frankly he wasn't willing to waste any more.

Oh, how Vincent wished he could tell his sisters how unexpected everything was. He wished they could sit down at the table, today, in the sunlight, so that he could tell them everything. Once, a long time ago, before we knew who we were, we thought we wanted to be like everyone else. How lucky to be exactly who we were.

And then, when Kylie looks back at her house, she has the strangest feeling. The house seems lost to her in some way, as though she were looking at a memory, a place she used to live in and will never forget but one she can't go back to, not anymore.

being young will slip through your hands and you will be left standing there, you who were once so young, not recognizing yourself or your life. "I'd like a mirror

She thought she still had a child as a daughter, but she had something entirely different, someone who had turned thirteen.

For although Hailey thought nothing of leaping from the highest diving platform or swimming so far out to sea that she disappeared from sight, she was easily frightened by other things - a future she couldn't control, for instance, or the notion that a lifelong friendship might be lost at the end of the week when the Capri closed down for good and Claire moved away.

I was so unaccustomed to such emotions it took some time before I realized I was happy. The sea was ever changing, ever interesting

Well, I think of life as a novel. You can't just hop out of the mess you're in and into another story. You carry it all with you.

I do not know if he had a name, but I called him North, an appellation I think Beck would have approved of, for it was the name the Dutch called the Hudson River when they first came here, when men set to changing the world in their image, and gave all the wild things their own names.

What is behind you is gone, what is in front of you awaits.

Once upon a time, before the whole world changed, it was possible to run away from home, disguise who you were, and fit into polite society

I used to think there was a plan, a rough plan, but a plan all the same," the doctor admitted. "Now, I believe there are a thousand plans. Every breath, every decision, influences the plan, expands it, shortens it, twists it all around. It's always changing. Those of us lucky enough to make it through the multitude of possible diseases and accidents get old. We get tired. We close our eyes.

All the same, some things stay with you forever. You are a different person now. You know it and I know it. You're not the same. You're a survivor. Congratulations.

The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day.

for a man's fate changed every day, depending upon his actions.

He studied me, searching my expression, not quite seeing what had happened but aware that something had changed.

It was possible, Richard knew, to be away from home too long, to forget all the things you once knew by heart. He didn't want just his father, he wanted the boy he used to be, someone who could be comforted by the sound of his parents talking in the next room, someone who refused to come into the house for supper until after dusk because that was the hour when deer mysteriously appeared in the driveway.