Quotes About Change

Things have changed. There are even fewer edges now than there were before. The world is less wild. There are fewer magics, more secrets, and only a handful of people who know the name of the wind.

Things are too full of life in the spring months. In the summer, they're too strong and won't let go. Autumn . . .'" He looked around at the changing leaves on the trees. "'Autumn's the time. In autumn everything is tired and ready to die.

IT WAS ONE OF those perfect autumn days so common in stories and so rare in the real world. The weather was warm and dry, ideal for ripening a field of wheat or corn. On both sides of the road the trees were changing color. Tall poplars had gone a buttery yellow while the shrubby sumac encroaching on the road was tinged a violent red. Only the old oaks seemed reluctant to give up the summer, and their leaves remained an even mingling of gold and green.

Había adoptado un nuevo nombre por las razones habituales, y también por algunas no tan habituales, entre las que estaba el hecho de que, para él, los nombres tenían importancia.

If I had my choice again, I would only change how fast I ran.

It is not a place you travel to, it is the place you pass through while on your way to somewhere else.

And remember, small thaws make great floods, so be twice wary of a slowly changing season.

Están las cosas tan mal como parece? ¿O me he vuelto viejo, como mi padre, y a todo le encuentro un sabor amargo comparado con cuando era niño?

Había aprendido a dormir con cosas mucho peores que aquello. En el pasado, antes de que llegara él. Antes de que ella tuviera su nuevo nombre, dulce y perfecto.

El día que dejamos de preocuparnos por el futuro es el día que dejamos atrás nuestra infancia.

La luz era más intensa, y ella oía cosas que normalmente no oía. Un lamento de todo lo que estaba fuera de su sitio. Un aullido de todo lo que había dejado de ser auténtico...

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true. It was nearly unique in this regard, while it was not always safe or kind, Auri could not help but feel a fondness of it

Con la edad se deterioran muchas cosas. Las manos y la espalda cobran rigidez. La visión empeora. La piel se vuelve áspera y la belleza se apaga.

old habits die slow deaths.

Cuando el mundo entero se convertía en un palimpsesto, él se convertía en un palíndromo perfecto.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true. It

Most things fail with age. Our hands and backs stiffen. Our eyes dim. Skin roughens and our beauty fades. The only exception is the voice. Properly cared for, a voice does nothing but grow sweeter with age and constant use.

But old habits die slow deaths.

Era lo bastante listo para conocerse a sí mismo, lo bastante valiente para ser él mismo y lo bastante insensato para cambiarse a sí mismo y, al mismo tiempo, seguir manteniéndose auténtico. En ese sentido era prácticamente único, [...]

A veces lo único que puedes hacer es marcharte.

Most things fail with age. Our hands and backs stiffen. Our eyes dim. Skin roughens and our beauty fades. The only exception is the voice. Properly cared for, a voice does nothing but grow sweeter with age and constant use. His was like a sweet honey wine.

He shrugged, facing the fire. "But we are all creatures of habit. It is far too easy to stay in the familiar ruts we dig for ourselves.

It was wise enough to know itself and brave enough to be itself and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

que el otoño es la estación idónea para arrancar de raíz cualquier cosa que no quieras que vuelva a molestarte.