“Sometimes all a person needs to turn themselves around is one good friend.”
“Circumstance induce change.”
“When it is time for a change, new circumstances evolve.”
“Change affects us all in different ways. It ll get easier as more time passes.”
“If one person decides to change, the whole group - regardless of its size - will change.”
“They would build a new world together. But first they had to burn the old one down.”
“Change is a process of losing things.”
“If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.”
“Words are where most change begins.”
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
“I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.”
“Books have the power to create, destroy or change civilizations.”
“Nobody really metamorphoses. Cinderella is always Cinderella, just in a nicer dress. The Ugly Duckling was always a swan, just a smaller version. And I bet the tadpole and the caterpillar still feel the same, even when they re jumping and flying, swimming and floating. Just like I am now.”
“People who say change is impossible are usually pretty happy with things just as they are.”
“Sonnets To Orpheus, Part Two, XII Want the change. Be inspired by the flame where everything shines as it disappears. The artist, when sketching, loves nothing so much as the curve of the body as it turns away. What locks itself in sameness has congealed. Is it safer to be gray and numb? What turns hard becomes rigid and is easily shattered. Pour yourself like a fountain. Flow into the knowledge that what you are seeking finishes often at the start, and, with ending, begins. Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive. And Daphne, becoming a laurel, dares you to become the wind.”
“And she wept as well for the others lost in the Dark War, and she wept for her mother and the loss she had endured, and she wept for Emma and the Blackthorns, remembering how they had fought back tears when she had told them that she had seen Mark in the tunnels of Faerie, and how he belonged to the Hunt now, and she wept for Simon and the hole in her heart where he had been, and the she would miss him every day until she died, and she wept for herself and the changes that had been wrought in her, because sometimes even change for the better felt like a little death.”
“...each one s different. They have similar elements, though. All stories do, no matter what form they take. Something was, and then something changed. Change is what story is, after all.”