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Quotes About Change

Bend like a willow. You made it sound so simple." "It was simple." "Indeed. I bent and changed everything. This is going to have consequences.
~ Rachel Hartman
Get on with you, mooning about, wallowing in gooey sentiment. It doesn't change anything. "It does, though," said Tess, a blaze igniting in her heart, a blue flame. "Maybe the world isn't really different, but I am different, and I am in the world." Not just in it. She was it.
~ Rachel Hartman
It's more like ... she has grown too big and feels trapped in her own skin.
~ Rachel Hartman
All is well--or could be, if we worked to make it so. We were the fingers of the world, putting itself to rights.
~ Rachel Hartman
Don't be afraid. We're walking away from death, not toward it. Death is going back.
~ Rachel Hartman
He steadied himself with one great hand against the city wall. He had told me he'd never stop growing. He'd meant it literally. What had I been addressing all these years? His finger?
~ Rachel Hartman
You, too, did what was easiest. Don't let that be all you do.
~ Rachel Hartman
The world is surprisingly hard to destroy," said Pathka gently. "Whereas saving it can be done a bit at a time. Anyway, don't be afraid. We're walking away from death, not toward it.
~ Rachel Hartman
It was the breeze that made her look up, a change in the texture of the unseen, a change in the texture of her heart. She was ready. Charlotte moved with firm footing around a stand of beech trees and onto a moonbeam path. A pearly, full moon glowed over Red Mountain, burning back the curtains of night.
~ Rachel Hauck
She hated endings. But if things didn't end, where would all the amazing beginnings be?
~ Rachel Hauck
Surely she imagined things. But change in her life, her family's, especially around Christmas, meant pain, betrayal, trauma, and death.
~ Rachel Hauck
En un abrir y cerrar de ojos, nuestra relación pasó de la fase <>, a la fase de <>
~ Rachel Hawthorne
I looked in the mirror again. I wasn't even sure I could get the cap on over the fluff. "Maybe we went a little overboard." "Trust me. We didn't." I wasn't so sure, though, when we walked into the kitchen where Dad was giving Jason pointers on driving in the rain, as though Raglan offered challenges he might never have encountered before.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
I'm Josh Wynter, by the way." "And do you become Josh Summer in June?" I asked.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
So read my lips. He is not on my radar anymore." "Think I'd rather kiss those lips." And he did just that.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
She mentions orphans at every opportunity. Part of the Miss Teen Ragland competition involves answering a question about how you'd change the world or make a difference or improve yourself. For Tiffany, it doesn't matter what question she's asked, she always manages to explain how she'd help orphans. Maybe her generous heart and not her generous, uh, chest, helped her win the past three competitions.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Some days are diamond. Some days are stone.
~ Rachel Howzell Hall
EVERY NEW DAY IS A CHANCE TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE.
~ Rachel Howzell Hall
But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
~ Rachel Hunter
After the marriage, Edward changed along with everything else. The barriers came up all around her. Where once, on the outside, she had felt shut out of their exclusive family, now--on the inside--she was debarred from the rest of the world.
~ Rachel Ingalls
There are so many different attitudes, like different lives, in a face and in a body. So many lines and forms, so many strengths and weaknesses. The expression of health, of nervousness, even the expression of truth, are things you can look at. How long it takes to know them all. And you never do, not completely. A body or face is never the same even in a single day. And the mind, that's even more difficult.
~ Rachel Ingalls
I can't imagine living in a different time," Estelle said. "Not in the future, and certainly not in the past. Can you?
~ Rachel Ingalls
The future when everybody changes and turns into someone different. I'll become a person I won't like at all. It won't matter because that person will have forgotten all about me. I won't exist anymore. It's worse than dying- It means my life now is not really happening.
~ Rachel Klein
A man could say every day that he wanted to change his life, was going to change it, and every day the lament became merely a part of the life he was already living, so that the desire for change was in fact a kind of stasis that allowed the unchanged life to continue, because at least the man knew to disapprove of it, which reassured him not all was lost.
~ Rachel Kushner