Quotes About Change

The path of your life can change in an instant.

Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed.

She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.

Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever.

There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.

What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.

I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.

Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.

sometimes you need to make a mess.

There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.

Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.

Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.

Sometimes when she thought of Eric, and now more powerfully when she saw him, she felt some achy nostalgia for her old self. For the dauntless, daring soul she used to be. There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone.

The thing you had had and loved and taken for granted caught up with you all at once and for no sensible reason suddenly cost more than you could afford.

You have to be like a turtle, she thought; you have to figure out how to bring your home along with you.

Carmen: "I want you to leave me alone, but not ignore me. I want you to miss me when I go away to college, but not be sad. I want you to stay exactly the same, but not be lonely or alone. I want to do the leaving, and not have you ever leave me.

She was so much softer then, so much more willing to fall in love, or believe she was.

He didn't want to go forward, but he always wanted to get another chance.

You couldn`t always know what would matter to you.

They were more like the grown-up dog whose family loved it but had to move to an apartment in Korea (is it Korea?) where people sometimes eat dogs.

Time was moving backward, it seemed, and the future was mostly forgotten.

he is the drip, drip of water that carves a canyon right through the middle of me.

Bridget loved the Marly who glittered and preened, but this was the woman she remembered. That was how the story went. That was how it really ended.

Iban a sumirla en la tristeza antes de hacerla feliz? No, por favor.