Quotes About Change

Later—well, what came later, came later.

They grow up so quickly, don't they?" when all you really mean is: time goes faster for me nowadays.

Daha önce bir araya getirilmemiÅŸ iki kiÅŸiyi bir araya getirebilirsiniz. Bu bazen ateÅŸle çal??an bir balona, hidrojenle çal??an bir balonu baÄŸlaman?n ÅŸu ilk denemesinde olduÄŸu gibi bir ÅŸeydir; yere çak?l?p yanmay? m? yeÄŸlersiniz yoksa yan?p yere çak?lmay? m?? Ama bazen de deneme baÅŸar?l?r ve yeni bir ÅŸey yarat?l?r dünya deÄŸiÅŸir.

How many of us, having cried bitter, rancid tears over a failed love, are actually disappointed when we discover, seeing the adored one again, that all trace of their power over us is gone? How often one has resisted the freedom-giving knowledge that they have actually begun to irritate us as that seems like the worst kind of disloyalty to our own dreams. No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

Things were just as they had been a moment before, and yet somehow the tone and substance had changed.

This phenomenon, where the losers of a revolution try to demonstrate their support for, and approval of, the changes that have destroyed them, always fascinates me.

The past, as we have been told so many times, is a foreign country where things are done differently.

She was at that period of her life that almost everyone must pass through, when childhood is done with and a faux maturity, untrammeled by experience, gives one a sense that anything is possible until the arrival of real adulthood

But then, as she told herself, who would learn better than she that hindsight is a prism that alters everything?

Language too is a brake upon social change.

Sometimes you meet someone and you know that your life will be different from then on.

When I met you, I thought we were meant for each other, even though, in some ways, seemed very different and we kept fighting. But now ... What? Now I think we're meant for each other, but we are doing to each other, to become the people we become. You know what I mean.

The sky is a bruise, only a storm will heal it.

Revolutions are usually started by people who are hungry. Sure, there are ideological revolutions, but, again, people rise up because they feel that the alternative is no longer livable. They have to be desperate.

How do you know me? she says. He looks at her through his narrow eyes. I was, he says. You were what? she asks. I was, he says again. And now I'm not.

Now I feel like we weren't made for each other. We're making each other -- into the people we should become.

When I first met you, I thought we were made for each other even though we seemed like opposites in some ways and we fought. But now... What? Now I feel like we weren't made for each other. We're making each other—into the people we should become. Do you know what I mean?

Olmak istedi?imiz ki?i olamay?z her zaman.

And when I say my type, I mean the type I liked to destroy!

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a woman, I put away childish things.

Even cliffs are vulnerable, Captain Eversea, she thought. The sea gets at them, eventually, reshaping them inexorably, giving them no choice at all in the matter.

If he'd been able to imagine it, perhaps he could have saved himself from what was to come. A grief that would reshape his life the way a tsunami reshaped a coastline.

Delilah had been transferred from her father's household to her husband's like crated porcelain.

sex always changed things between people, a bit the way an earthquake shifts a landscape.