Quotes About Change

I don't believe in a small break. I feel a break is a break, and if it starts small, it only gets wider. So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

She didn't fit perfectly into my new life, but the beauty of our relationship is that she hadn't fit perfectly into my old life, either. Love teaches you that fitting is overrated; what you need to do is change the shape of your life to make the connection.

All dressed up, we thought we looked so old. Now, of course, we look at the picture and see how young we actually were. We get younger every year.

like you can just drive to a store and get a life

When you opened your eyes, you could see that she was grown up, nearly an adult. But with the same wonder showing in her movements, because that's not something you have to grow out of.

So even though it doesn't seem like anything's changed— —things change all the time, mostly in little ways. That's how it goes, I guess." Sofia nodded. "Funny how we say it goes. That's the way life goes.

Why was I thinking about this? Oh, yes—the roses. Something to keep. Something gone.

Hi. I'm Thom. With an 'h'. I tell him, I'm Gnorah. With a 'g'. The 'g' is silent. Like 'gnome.' Really? Thom says. No, not really. I have an 'h' too. At the end. Used to be just N-O-R-A but when I had the H legally added to my name after my dad failed to sign up Norah Jones when he had the chance. I don't like him to forget these things easily.

There's been a lot of things said about me Since that awful day I'm not the person that I used to be And that I'll never be the same That's true - no doubt But I know more now what life is about I laugh louder Cry harder Take less time to make up my mind and I Think smarter Go slower I know what I want And what I don't I'll be better than I've ever been

Cuando las cosas se rompen, lo que impide recomponerlas no es el hecho de que se hayan roto. Lo que sucede es que una pequeña pieza se pierde. Las demás no encajarían aunque quisieran. La forma ha cambiado definitivamente.

Flujo. El estado natural. Cambiamos de humor. Cambian nuestras vidas. Cambian nuestros sentimientos hacia el otro. Cambian nuestras relaciones. Cambia la canción. Cambia el aire. Cambia la temperatura del agua de la ducha. Acéptalo. Hay que aceptarlo.

It's like my grandma used to say: Just when you think life's got you in a gutter, a tornado will come along and destroy your house. And then you rebuild? I ask. Well, she never mentioned that part, but I suppose it could happen.

I am trying not to think of endings.

To swim is to transform yourself into an unnatural creature, to take on an element that should not be your own. To swim is to experience the world differently, or to experience a different world temporarily.

They have left the first stage of romance—the rhapsody of us. Where everything is you-me or me-you or a giddily tentative we. Now him and her are asserting themselves, each given a private, pensive depth. Within the rhapsody of us, Elijah could think, I don't really know you, but I will. Now he is not so sure.

Just because it's better now doesn't mean that it's always good.

I'd thought I remembered her perfectly. But it is much better to see her imperfectly, to see something new every time she moves.

I do believe that most of the times your life changes, you don't realize in the moment that it's on the cusp of being altered.

Every traveller returns home.

Se podría decir que escribí toda una novela sólo para cambiar el final de una canción.

notice how fickle things can be now I'm better, now I'm worse nowhere is it written how to deal with this

Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself?

That's the thing about life and love - every time you take another look at them, there's something else that can be revised.

One last song. One last turn. One last street. no matter how hard you try to keep hold of a day, it's going to leave you