Quotes About Change

It's easy to romanticize after a couple of centuries.

Youth and age, she thought. Beginnings and endings, connections and constancy. And, love.

What's wrong with standing in the same place if it's a good place?" "Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone. Honey, alone and lonely share the same root.

Fire doesn't only destroy, Rowan. Sometimes it creates. The best of it creates, and when love's a fire, whether it's bright or a steady glow, hot or warm, it creates. It makes you better than you were without it.

pleasure had been so huge, she'd had to go into the bathroom, close herself in a stall and cry a little. The seeds of the rebellion had been planted that day, she supposed, or maybe they'd always been there, dormant, and the fat and salt had awakened them. But she could feel them, actually feel them, sprouting in her belly now. "Your plans changed, Mother. It doesn't follow that mine have to change with them." Susan took a moment to precisely place

He didn't expect to find her. I didn't expect him to find her. She makes a difference, in him, in the book.

moving around. I got my gun.

Changing a life is an effortful thing, my dear. It takes work and patience and determination.

He was a hero, and never to be forgotten. And today, as he would want, as must be done, a new leader comes.

And she never had, Doug mused, because war and politics go for the big view and trample all over the little guy. France during the Revolution or a steamy pit of a jungle in Nam. It never changed. He knew just what it felt like to be helpless. He wasn't going to feel that way ever again.

I couldn't let it be the only place you really know. You're meeting different people now, people who come from different places, have other views, other goals. It's an opportunity for you to explore possibilities, potential, beyond right

happening to and

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; Change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

remember that nothing, good or ill, stays forever.

Griff's taking out another wall or two at the old

Flowers that had bloomed brilliant from spring through autumn blackened under the killing frost.

It's just that a life can change so completely and so quickly. The best and the worst. In a blink.

turn around, though

Why do people always have to have new hair? If you didn't like the old hair, why did you have the old hair? Then you won't like the new hair, and you'll have to have new new hair.

She was what she was. Or had been what she was, she corrected. God only knew what she was now.

He didn't look the way he used to, but neither did he look

She was, at sixteen years, eight months and twenty-one days, a product of her mother's meticulous and detailed agenda. That was about to change.

It won't last long. Storms never do. They just come along to shake us up and make us appreciate the quiet times.

I want to be there for you. That's new for me. It's your own fault. You just kept at me till I was in love with you. First time I haven't aimed and shot first. I kinda like it.