Quotes About Change

Getting fired," Tyler says, is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we'd quit treading water and do something with our lives.

Who you are moment to moment is just a story.

When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

The previous Madison Spencer would bother to hold their frightened hand, to calm and comfort them. Who I am now, however, I tell them to cry me a stinking shit river and fall down dead, already.

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution'' Tyler whispered, ''toward tragedy and dissolution

You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp.

There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

If the prodigal son had never left home, the fattened calf would still be alive.

The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

When you understand," Brandy says, "that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan," Brandy says, "then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

I'm trapped here, in a nosedive, in my life, in the cockpit of a jet-liner with the flat yellow of the Australian outback coming up fast. And there's so many things I want to change but can't. It's all done. It's all just a story now. Here's the life and death of Tender Branson, and I can just walk away from it. And the sky is blue and righteous in every direction. The sun is total and burning and just right there, and today is a beautiful day.

That might be the best any generation could achieve: to pioneer its own brand of corruption.

I'm trapped here, in a nosedive, in my life, in the cockpit of a jetliner with the flat yellow of the Australian outback coming up fast. And there's so many things I want to change but can't. It's all done. It's all just a sotry now. Her'es the life and death of Tender Branson, and I can just walk away from it. And the sky is blue and righteous in every direction. The sun is total and burning and just right there, and today is a beautiful day.

If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?

Nothing is static. Everything is falling apart.

Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. And I used to be such a nice guy.

At the end of the day, your life is just a story. If you don't like the direction it's going, change it. Rewrite it. When you rewrite a sentence, you erase it and start over until you get it right. Yes, it's a little more complicated with a life, but the principle is the same. And remember, don't let anyone ever tell you that your revisions are not the truth.

Purgatory is where you unwrite the book of your life story

Then since the autopilot will have it trimmed out to fly in a straight line, the glider will begin what the pilot calls a controlled descent. That kind of a descent, I tell him, would be nice for a change.

When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trash can, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us.

We were all runing from something. Vaginoplasty. Aging. The future.

The problem with proximity friends is, they move away. They quit or get fired.