Quotes About Change

El tiempo, pensó Gamache al salir a la oscuridad, lo cubría todo tarde o temprano. Acontecimientos, personas, recuerdos.

Le beau risque. The great risk. The beautiful risk. To climb out of the hole and start again.

There was always, even now, a before and an after.

Here it is then, the dark thing, the dark thing you have waited for so long. And after all, it is nothing new.

If we can accept that nothing is permanent, and change is inevitable, if we can adapt, then we're going to be happier people.

Like whites in South Africa or the Southern states who knew that things had changed, who even accepted the changes, but who couldn't quite shake the certainty deeply, diplomatically, hidden, that they should still be in charge.

the room was warming up and there was nothing quite like the comfort of being cold, then slowly feeling the heat approaching and arriving and spreading.

Most of us are great with change, as long as it was our idea. But change imposed from the outside can send some people into a tailspin.

Friends and neighbors hugged, and even kissed. Though it felt strange, and even slightly naughty. Some still preferred to bump elbows. Others continued to carry their masks. Like a rosary, or rabbit's foot, or a St. Christopher medal, promising safe passage.

They could stop being pillars and just be people.

The others said they wanted to get better, but I think, and this isn't popular in psychology circles' - here she leaned forward and whispered, conspiratorially - 'I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.

he wondered whether it was always the young who were brave. And the old grew fearful and cowardly. Was

To enjoy a freedom they no longer took for granted.

the most powerful, spectacular thing is that the solution rests with us as well. We're the only ones who can change our lives, turn them around. So all those years waiting for someone else to do it are wasted.

Things were not as they seemed. The known world was shifting, reforming. Everything he'd taken as a given, a fact, as real and unquestioned, had fallen away. But

Change the facts and you'll change the feelings.

Times change. You had to roll with it. But it was impossible to roll without getting bruised.

he knew most places felt just a little sad in spring, when the bright and playful snow had gone and the flowers and trees hadn't yet bloomed. The

Pierre Patenaude, whom she was currently interviewing, had just explained that the staff changed almost every year, so it was necessary to train most of them. "Do you have trouble holding on to staff?" she asked. "Mais, non," Madame Dubois said. Agent Lacoste had

think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.

But when does the lifeboat become the prison ship? When does the drug start working against you? Had her beloved, gentle, wounded husband escaped too far?

Regret for things said, for things done, and not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be.

Those girls over there all think they have it bad.' 'But wait 'til menopause,' confirmed Myrna.

It was a post her former colleagues no doubt viewed as a significant step down. But Reine Marie wasn't interested in steps. She'd arrived at where she wanted to be. No more steps." Chapter 1 · Page 5 · Location 101