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• Yeah, I wish I could have stayed awake long enough to see your face when I changed over. (Wren) No, you don’t. I assure you, it wasn’t pretty. (Maggie) There’s never anything about you that isn’t pretty, Maggie. You’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. (Wren)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Long, Wish

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• The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Air, Smell, Water

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• The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Thinking, Atoms

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• No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation; and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance. Every means is an obstacle. Only where all means have disintegrated encounters occur.

  Martin Buber

  Dream, Mean, Greed

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.82, eBookIt.com

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• People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.

  Jodi Picoult

  People, Wells

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.807, Simon and Schuster

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• It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed. The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Ambition, Reality, Views

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Easyread Edition”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I don't care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you. I'm here because I want to be with you. But if I didn't, all the money in the world wouldn't have changed my feelings for you.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Money, Dad, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Dec 06, 2011

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• I'm not sure why I've decided to do this. I'm not any stronger than I was, and nothing else has changed. But all the same, this time I'm not going to run away. It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's what makes us strong."-Yuki

  Natsuki Takaya

  Running, Strong, Important

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• In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Lying, Years, Pieces

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• I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.

  Sharon Shinn

  Love You, Men, Lasts

  Sharon Shinn (2000). “Heart of Gold”, Ace Trade

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• Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something gossamer and tremulous into the circle of light our fire had made. The music moved like a spiderweb stirred by a gentle breath, it changed like a leaf twisting as it falls to the ground, and it felt like three years Waterside in Tarbean, with a hollowness inside you and hands that ached from the bitter cold.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Fall, Fire, Light

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, 2007.

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• People changed lots of other personal things all the time. They dyed their hair and dieted themselves to near death. They took steroids to build muscles and got breast implants and nose jobs so they'd resemble their favorite movie stars. They changed names and majors and jobs and husbands and wives. They changed religions and political parties. They moved across the country or the world -- even changed nationalities. Why was gender the one sacred thing we weren’t supposed to change? Who made that rule?

  Ellen Wittlinger

  Country, Jobs, Stars

  Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Parrotfish”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.

  Martin Heidegger

  Poet, Vanguard, Conception

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• I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

  Jon Krakauer

  Dream, Climbing, Appreciate

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Jul 22, 2012

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• She went out and took a last long look at the shabby little library. She knew she would never see it again. Eyes changed after they looked at new things. If in the years to be she were to come back, her new eyes might make everything seem different from the way she saw it now. The way it was now was the way she wanted to remember it.

  Betty Smith

  Eye, Years, Long

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• Those eerie diamond eyes shifted over to her and she stilled, as if he's willed her to do so. There was a moment of silence. And then in a rough voice the man whose life she saved spoke four words that changed everything...changed her life, changed her destiny: "She. Comes. With. Me.

  J.R. Ward

  Eye, Destiny, Men

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.114, Penguin

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• We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life of limits, both suffered and strictly observed, in a world of limits. I learned much of that world from him and others, and then I changed; I entered the world of labor-saving machines and of limitless cheap fossil fuel. It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.

  Wendell Berry

  Reading, Years, Grandfather

  Wendell Berry (2009). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food”, p.74, Counterpoint Press

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• And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again. The sky was never the same colour, the moon never the same shape: the air never smelt the same, food never tasted the same. Every word I knew changed its meaning, everything that once was stable and firm became as insubstantial as a puff of wind, and every puff of wind became a solid thing I could feel and touch.

  Stephen Fry

  Moon, Air, Wind

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.233, Soho Press

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• Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.

  Ann Brashares

  Beach, Thinking, Progress

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.13, Penguin

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• Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

  Daniel Handler

  Love, Feel Better, Long

  "The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1)". Book by Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler), September 30, 1999.

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• The lingering laughter fled from his eyes as he realized that he'd given himself away. "Where's Fiddle now?" "Safe and cared for. Safer than you'll be if you don't answer my questions." Ping. He managed not to laugh, but it looked like a hard fight. "Dung," Makenna muttered. the knight's expression changed to startled disapproval. A prig, as he? Maybe she could use that. "I said you should let me handle this," Cogswhallop told her. "I'd have meant it.

  Hilari Bell

  Laughter, Eye, Fighting

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• Do you remember the summer we signed you up for camp? And the night before you left, you said you've changed your mind and wanted to stay home? I told you to to get a seat on the left side of the bus, so when you pulled away, you'd be able to look back and see me there waiting for you." I press her hand against my cheek, hard enough to leave a mark. "You get that same seat in Heaven. One where you can watch me, watching you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Summer, Home, Night

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• And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was still beautiful... or if the fall had changed the story completely.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Beautiful, Princess, Fall

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Pretties”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.

  Amy Tan

  Thinking, Unhappy, World

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.86, Penguin

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• In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed. Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.

  Yann Martel

  Taken, Years, Broken

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