Quotes About Change

Unfortunately, now that Langston has a boyfriend again, he has forgotten all about me.

I started to write: Langston deserves to be sick. But I erased that and wrote, Okay. I'll make him some.

No. I can't change. I shouldn't change.

People come to New York to be different

Kent State by Deborah Wiles

And I honestly like her about twenty times more now than I did when we were dating. But love needs to have a future.

there isn't even a pole at the North Pole, and if global warming continues, there won't be any ice, either.

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.

But the older you get, the more you realize that, yes, there are all these things that link you to the past, and you're using the same words and singing the same songs that have always been there for you, but each time, things have shifted, and you have to deal with that shift. Because

Grandpa has presided over the neighborhood as it went from low-income haven for immigrant families to yuppie enclave.

when you turn a short span of time into a "season," you create an echo chamber for all of its associations

Langston has been in love. Twice. His first big romance ended so badly that he had to leave

the love I felt for him was huge and real, and, while painful, it forever changed me as a person

Mrs. Basil E.

I shouldn't want the song to end. I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I`m seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It´s an INFINITE PLAYLIST

I think it's time to experience life outside the notebook.

I go from chords to cords, amped to amps.

and everything about me goes from crying out to just plain crying

I look forward to seeing more and more people willing to resist the direction the world is moving in, a direction where our personal experiences are irrelevant, that we are defective, that our communities are not important, that we are powerless, that our future is determined, and that the highest level of humanity is expressed through what we choose to buy at the mall.

Girls, it's imperative you learn this now. She levels them with a mock-serious expression, and her rapt audience leans in. Boys are gonna come, and boys are gonna go. Unfortunately, some friends may even do the same. But dessert, y'all, will never let you down.

It's easier to start over than to work to make something last.

I'm an ivy twined so long against a tower of strange design that I cannot now assume any other shape.

There's a hole in you where your heart once was. And in its place, you've put history.

If we looked through the eyes of history, we'd live differently. We'd live right.