Quotes About Change

Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.

Mortality, behold, and fear, What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones,

Unfortunately, you never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.

You've changed me for the better, and even if you left me, I would still have that." He paused. "Not that you should leave me," he added hastily

Years later Magnus would return to London and Camille Belcourt's side, and find it not all that he had dreamed. Years later another desperate Herondale boy with blue, blue eyes would come to his door, shaking with the cold of the rain and his own wretchedness, and this one Magnus would be able to help.

We get used to living one way, even if it's a bad way or a hard one. When that's gone, there's a hole to fill. It's in our nature to try to fill it with anxieties and fears. It can take time to fill it with good things instead.

It is unusual," said Cristina, "for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more.

If this is your idea of glamour, I'm having second thoughts about letting you make me over.

Life was an uncertain thing.

I think you were the wrong person for the Jace that I was, but not the Jace that I am now, the Jace you helped make me. Who is, incidentally, a Jace I like much better than the old one. You've changed me for the better, and even if you left me, I would still have that.

I mean, is there a chance for me? To have another life after this, a better one?

To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change

I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.

Words Have The Power To Change Us

It is a very strange thing, to be in love. It changes you.

Now I wonder all the time how you go back after something like that. Whether we can ever be friends again, or if what we had is broken into pieces. Not because of her, but because of me.

How easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.

Remember how before, I was talking about Dungeons and Dragons? Vividly, Jace said. It was a dark time.

We all change the world, with every day of living in it," Magnus said. "You just have to decide HOW you want to change the world.

Their closeness wouldn't break, but it would bend and stretch into a new shape.

Things did change. He'd gone from being eaten up with jealousy of Simon, to a grudging respect for his tenacity and courage, to actually considering him a friend, though he doubted he'd ever say so out loud

oh, dear," said Tessa. "I have that effect on women," Will said. "I probably should have warned you before you agreed to marry me." "I can still change my mind," Tessa said sweetly. "Don't you dare -," He began with a breathless half laugh, [...]

I've realized—I don't need to change. And neither do you, Helen, or you, Aline. It's the world that needs to change, and we're going to be the ones to change it.

We are all our past have made us. The accumulation of thousands of daily choices. We can change ourselves, but never erase what we've been. Forgetting those choices doesn't unmake them.