Quotes About Change

What is truly interesting is not the fact that people have power, but how they use that power. Do they make their world better, stronger, gentler, more varied, more interesting, more humane?

You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better...

You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.

You get an astronaut's life whether you want it or not. Leave it all behind for a world you know nothing about. That's just the deal.

It was hard to venture back near the place you'd been bred without settling into the characteristics of the person you'd been there.

Ig had not been inside for years, but it was much as he remembered it. The foundry lay open to the sky, brick arches and pillars rising away into the slanting reddish light. Thirty years of overlapping graffiti covered the walls. The individual messages were mostly incoherent, but then perhaps the individual messages were of no importance. It seemed to Ig that all such messages were the same at heart: I Am; I Was; I Want To Be.

All you had to see was the bumper sticker on their Prius—VOTING IS LIKE DRIVING: R GOES BACKWARD, D GOES FORWARD—to know we were going to be all right.

At first my father didn't like Art, but after he got to know him better he really hated him.

Getting old is no way to stop being young.

Out of the frying pan and into the Fireman.

Some part of her felt that the existence of the bridge depended utterly on forward motion and not thinking too much.

Any pattern repeated over and over is bound to turn into wallpaper eventually, whether it's flowers or corpses.

VOTING IS LIKE DRIVING: R GOES BACKWARD, D GOES FORWARD

Gedding old is no way to stop being young.

Harper wondered, idly, why it took getting contaminated to notice the marriage itself was sick. He

She was working on the eighth step of her program and was here in Haverhill to make amends. For years she had not wanted Linda to know Wayne, to be a part of his life. She took pleasure in limiting her mother's contact with the boy, felt it was her job to protect Wayne from Linda. She wished now there had been someone to protect Wayne from herself. She had amends to make to him, too.

One of the extraordinary adaptive powers of our species is its ability to transmute a stray encounter into a first chapter.

Invent a way not to ged old," he said. "It is a terrible goddem trick to play on someone. Gedding old is no way to stop being young.

A menudo las mujeres pierden la ternura de sus primeros años del mismo modo que un niño pierde los dientes de leche.

A gente esquecia que o tempo e o espaço eram uma coisa só até eles começarem a se mover depressa, até os pinheiros e postes de telefonia começarem a passar chispando. Então, no meio de toda essa velocidade, o tempo se expandia, de modo que o segundo que se levava para percorrer sete metros começava a durar mais do que outros segundos.

You get an astronaut's life whether you want it or not. Leave it all behind for a world you know nothing about.

A Escama do Dragão é igual a qualquer outra coisa que produz fogo, enfermeira Grayson. Pode-se usá-la para incendiar um lugar… ou para iluminar o caminho rumo a algo melhor.

It was ludicrous to cry because there was no more Google, but for a moment Harper felt very close to weeping. The idea that Google could collapse and be gone was as hard to imagine as the fall of the Twin Towers. It had seemed at least as permanent a part of the cultural landscape.

he sees a place where he will passively fade away, like wallpaper that gets too much sunlight and slowly loses its color. This