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• I wonder if I've been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!

  Lewis Carroll

  Morning, Night, Thinking

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.' 'I'm not sure a book has ever changed me,' said Will. 'Well there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep-' 'Only the very weak minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,' said Tessa, determined not to let him run wildly off with the conversation.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Book, Sheep

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• [C]ontinence is a very important part of yoga. If a handful of people come forward with strong wills, nothing is impossible. One Buddha changed half the globe; one Jesus, three quarters of the world. We all have that capacity. (140)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Jesus, Strong, Yoga

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• Finally the kitchen clock said 5:17. It was time to roll out. I shouted for my mom, woke Jeffrey up, ran upstairs, changed into my concert clothes, put on my shoes, and was standing by the door to the garage by 5:19—chanting “Let’s go! Come on!” (Feel free to try that at home, by the way; moms love it!)

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Mom, Home, Doors

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.140, Scholastic Inc.

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• After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.

  Alice Sebold

  Eye, Facts, Lovers

  Alice Sebold (2009). “Lucky”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that, you think. And so can a wild party. You marvel at the way each has the power to forever alter an individual's compass. And it is the knowing that such a thing can so easily happen, as you did not know before, not really, that has fundamentally changed you and your son.

  Anita Shreve

  Falling In Love, Party, Son

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• You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila swooned inside. She tried to read his face but was met by a look that was indecipherable: the cheerful, cretinous grin at odds with the narrow, half desperate look in his eyes. A clever look, calculated to fall precisely at the midpoint between mockery and sincerity

  Khaled Hosseini

  Girl, Sexy, Clever

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.278, A&C Black

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• My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.

  Lisa See

  Wine, Gone Away, Water

  Lisa See (2011). “Peony in Love”, p.190, A&C Black

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• No man can sincerely resolve to apply to his daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth without sensing a change in his own nature. The phrase, 'born again', has a deeper significance than many people attach to it. This changed feeling may be indescribable, but it is real.

  David O. McKay

  Jesus, Real, Teaching

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• Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.

  Zadie Smith

  Past, Men, Fake

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.15, Vintage

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• You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

  Ben Elton

  Dream, Wake Up, Gears

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• ... a man's plans are meant to be changed for a beautiful woman.

  Nora Roberts

  Beautiful, Men, Plans

  Nora Roberts (2009). “Genuine Lies”, p.292, Bantam

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• in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Revenge, Oil

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• The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only way a person can be changed." By looking into yourself," Zia said. "Even if you have to look into a mirror that's outside yourself to do it." "And you know," Maida added. "That mirror can be a story you hear, or just someone else's eyes. Anything that reflects back so you can see yourself in it.

  Charles de Lint

  Eye, Mirrors, People

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• The longer you've known someone- the more history there is between you- the longer it will take to establish in their mind that you have truly changed. Remember, forgiveness is an altogether different thing from trust or respect. Forgiveness is about the past. Trust and respect are about the future. Forgiveness will be in the hands of others and cna be given to you, but trust and respect are in your own hands and must be earned.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Past, Hands

  Andy Andrews (2016). “The Noticer Collection: Sometimes, all a person needs is a little perspective.”, p.56, Thomas Nelson

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• You haven’t changed at all. I expected a perceptible difference, but here you are, red-faced just like always.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Differences, Red, Expected

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• Sitting next to her, Amy was wide-eyed, mesmerized at the sight of Jack heading over in all his seemingly pissed-off-once-again glory. "I changed my mind, Cam. If this was all a big setup and he's coming over to strip for me, I think I can handle it. I definitely can handle it.

  Julie James

  Thinking, Sight, Mind

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• Love, how often that word came up in books over and over again. If you had wealth and health, and beauty and talent...you had nothing if you didn't have love. Love changed all that was ordinary into something giddy, powerful, drunken, enchanted.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Powerful, Book, Ordinary

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• She had gradually changed her name. "Jane" was too dull. Last year, she'd added a "y", becoming Jayne, which had more personality.

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Years, Names, Personality

  Caroline B. Cooney (2009). “The Face on the Milk Carton”, p.2, Laurel Leaf

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• And yet, I felt a surge of exhilaration just thinking about that night. Not just because I'd met the prince and fallen in love and started on my course toward happiness ever after, but because I'd made something happen. I'd done something everybody had told me I couldn't. I'd changed my life all by myself. Having a fairy godmother would have ruined everything.

  Margaret Haddix

  Night, Thinking, Godmother

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2015). “Just Ella”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Moving, Past, Done

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• It weren’t too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn’t feel so, accepting, anymore.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Sad, Depression, Long

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• I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Reflection, Self, Dwelling

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.29, Powell Publications, LLC

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• It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Loss, People, Moments

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.104, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him.

  Megan Hart

  Understood, Pretense

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