Quotes About Change

In AP Bio, I learned that the cells in our body are replaced every seven years, which means that one day I'll have a body full of cells that were never sick. But it also means that the parts of me that knew and loved Sadie will disappear. I'll still remember loving her, but it'll be a different me who loved her. And maybe this is how we move on. We grow new cells to replace the grieving ones, diluting our pain until it loses potency.

You can sound your barbaric yawp over the rooftops . . . or suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune . . . or seize the day . . . or sail away from the safe harbor . . . or seek a newer world . . . or rage against the dying of the light

I'm not ashamed of myself. I'm ashamed that the world isn't good enough yet. Because it should be.

But second chances aren't forever. And even miracles have an expiration date.

It's so strange how the moment of your birth is this fixed point in time, but the hour of your death is always changing based on what you eat for dinner, or where you cross the street, or who you trust when you're alone in the dark woods. But I like to think of all those little moments that add up to the final one, because it meant that my death would be my own, the result of my life, and not just something that happened to me.

the life you plan isn't the life that happens to you.

Erased means you disappear. It's more like you've been…forcibly evicted from your old life. You're still leaving your mark, you're just doing it somewhere else.

Dude," Austin said as we exited the freeway, "in fifty years, all of the old folks' homes are going to be filled with seniors listening to Justin Bieber on the oldies station and talking about how movies used to be in two-D.

wondered what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable.

I cried for my brokenness, for the way her words had crippled me, and for the three unspoken words I'd been carrying with me for a while now, and how quickly one of them had changed.

Delete," he said. "I keep telling you." But I couldn't. Even though I wasn't sure what the point was anymore. No one kept in touch, they just kept up. And then, when they couldn't keep up anymore, they forgot. I

Qué raro que todo hubiera cambiado tanto pero los cartones de leche siguieran siendo los mismos.

I wondered what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable. When

The death of a relationship. At least I was dressed for the wake.

The saying at Latham was 'Welcome to the rotation,' but the unspoken second half of that phrase was 'you can exit through either of two doors.

It's strange how we can lose things that are still right there. how a barrier can go up at any moment, trapping you on the other side, keeping you from what you want. how the things that hurt the most are things we once had.

Like tonight, when everyone dressed as zombies, and you wore that. I mean, don't you want to be like everyone else?" "Not particularly," I said, willing her to finally understand how much I had changed, and how very little she knew about me.

but more than anything, the homecoming nomination made me feel as though I was being pushed back into a world I was happy to leave behind

It's strange how we can lose things that are still right there. How a barrier can go up at any moment, trapping you on the other side, keeping you from what you want. How the things that hurt the most are things we once had.

No era la vida que yo había planeado, pero sí la que tenía y, por fin, había empezado a aceptarlo.

But maybe it was better this way, remembering those few months at the beginning of the year as this wonderful thing was over now, rather than living in Cassidy's world without her

A game that I'd kept on playing because people expected me to, and I was good at doing what people expected. But not anymore, because no one seemed to expect anything from me anymore. The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish.

Why she would choose a town where she barely knew anyone, and a boyfriend who knew how broken felt.

Era yo el que no había entendido el cambio de sentido y se obstinaba en seguir por la ruta prevista.