Quotes About Change

Youth inhabits his face like a hermit crab its borrowed shell. He will outgrow his shelter sooner than he thinks. Only then will he know what it is to be naked.

No. No, I'm not." Then she said: "I'm somebody else. I just don't know who that somebody else is yet." "Well that's what journeys are for," Diamanda Murkitt said.

We are all our own graveyards I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were.

What I do know is that I have never found clowns remotely funny. I am not alone in this, I think. More people find clowns disturbing or distressing rather than raucously amusing. Is it that the nature of human existence has changed so radically in the last century or so that what was funny to our grandparents and great-grandparents is now tragic or terrifying?

Eu não sabia o que estava a perder', disse Harvey. 'Ah...', disse Hood, suavemente 'mas não é sempre assim que as coisas se passam? Há coisas que nos deslizam pelos dedos e só quando se vão embora é que nos arrependemos. Mas aquilo que se vai embora não volta, Harvey Swick!

Nothing is fixed. In and out the shuttle goes fact and fiction, mind and matter, woven into patterns that may have only this in common: that hidden amongst them is a filigree which will with time become a world.

Everything tires with time , and starts to seek some opposition , to save it from itself.

Having a routine that bordered on stagnancy had its benefits.

And why not? The world made miracles like this every moment of every day: egg into chick, seed into flower, maggot into fly. Now man into fox? was that possible? Oh yes, said the House of the World. Yes, and yes, and always yes-

Things came and went away; that was a kind of magic. And in between? Pursuits and conjurings, horrors, guises. The occasional joy. That there was room for joy, ah! that was magic too.

Dead isn't bad," Narcisse said. "It isn't even that different.

It'd just be another opinion," Maxine said, poking at the fire with the stick she'd picked up. "People would go on believing their favorite versions." "You think?" "For sure. You can't change people's opinion about stuff like that. It's embedded. They believe what they believe.

Maybe if they didn't tell you the stories ... they'd actually go out and do it.

Somos nuestros propios cementerios; nos instalamos entre las tumbas de las personas que éramos.

Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself. So

The World. Hugo had once told Nathaniel in Will's presence, was made by many men, but shaped by few. The important thing was to be one of those few; to find a place in which you could change the repetitive patterns of the many Through political influence and intellectual discourse, and failing either of these , through benign coercion.

Dorothea: What the fuck are you? Nix: A man who wanted to be a God...then changed his mind.

A snake can shed its skin but it still remains a snake.

Time is on our side. Not only will we erode America from the outside, but with the help of your own countrymen we will eventually cause it to crumble from within.

If this was a level of security provided by Corinth's finest company, he considered making a career change, to Greek cat burglar.

The body, I had been taught, wants only to live. Suicide, I had understood, is an act not of the body against itself but of the will against the body. Yet here I beheld a body that was going to die rather than change its nature.

If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.

A journey is not a cure. It brings an illusion, only, of change, and becomes at best a spartan comfort

A revolutionary is only a terrorist until he's achieved his revolution. After that he's a hero. An outcome makes a morality...