Changed Quotes - Page 40

• Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen. If I could keep today’s happiness I wouldn’t worry about tomorrow. 

  Ai Yazawa

  Worry, Today, Tomorrow

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• Don't feel ashamed for having those feelings and those memories. What happened in the past can't be changed, but they can be a guide for what happens in the future.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Memories, Past, Feelings

  "Magic Study". Book by Maria V. Snyder, 2006.

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• What a wonderful sleep it had been! Never had sleep so refreshed him, so renewed him, so rejuvenated him! Perhaps he had really died, perhaps he had been drowned and was reborn in another form. No, he recognized himself, he recognized his hands and feet, the place where he lay and the Self in his breast, Siddhartha, self-willed, individualistic. But this Siddhartha was somewhat changed, renewed. He had slept wonderfully. He was remarkably awake, happy and curious.

  Hermann Hesse

  Sleep, Self, Hands

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• "She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around. "What's that?" I asked. "That I do still love you." With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed.

  Richelle Mead

  Love You, Voice, Long

  "Last Sacrifice". Book by Richelle Mead, December 7, 2010.

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• I have changed my mind. You can help cook by standing in a corner and not touching anything. Do it carefully. -Nick to Jamie

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Touching, Mind, Helping

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• Think about it. These guys have far more reasons to pull a prank on Doug than they do me. I kind of wished we had changed clothes, though.' 'There wasn't time,' Katie said. 'Your true love is in desperate need of your assistance. How can you think of changing into the appropriate attire for a rescue?

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Love Is, Thinking, Clothes

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• This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Wall, Yesterday, House

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• I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Philosophy, Views, Stones

  Cecelia Ahern (2006). “If You Could See Me Now”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• She had changed him. The ice was in his eyes and in his heart, like he had predicted with that song, but now they were deep embedded there, all the pain of the world. Not pain to make you feel for somebody else but pain to make you stop feeling.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Song, Pain, Heart

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• Before this trip and all that she'd learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it.

  Kristin Hannah

  Pain, Three, Obscure

  Kristin Hannah (2010). “Winter Garden”, p.323, Macmillan

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• Greenspan's eventual explanation for the growing gap between stock prices and actual productivity was that, fortuitously, the laws of nature had changed -- humanity had reached a happy stage of history where bullshit could be used as rocket fuel.

  Matt Taibbi

  Law, Bullshit, Humanity

  Matt Taibbi (2010). “Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America”, p.60, Spiegel & Grau

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• Because if he looked like he was unaffected by her smile, then she would not realize that, in actuality, he was in an utter panic because somewhere deep down inside he’d realized that his life had just changed forever.

  Julia Quinn

  Forever, Panic, Realizing

  Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, Connie Brockway (2012). “The Lady Most Likely: A Novel in Three Parts”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• You've changed," he said. "You're-uh-" "Yes?" "Taller." "I hope so. I was ten the last time you saw me." "And your hair's really dark now-and short," he added.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Dark, Hair, Lasts

  Elizabeth Chandler (2010). “Don't Tell”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami's and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven't witnessed but have changed my life, the lives of everyone I know, all the people I'll never know. I thought about life without the sun, the moon, stars, without flowers and warm days in May. I thought about a year ago and all the good things I'd taken for granted and all the unbearable things that had replaced those simple blessings. And even though I hated the thought of crying in from of Syl, tears streamed down my face.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Stars, Flower, Taken

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• I changed the past by walking back into it.

  Sapphire

  Past, Walking

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• The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues and valour flies.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Heart, Apollo

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1097, Oxford University Press

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• And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Winter, Sun

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• Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept away in the general upheaval and reorganization of the whole of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the bare, shivering human soul, stripped to the last shred, the naked force of the human psyche for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.

  Boris Pasternak

  Lonely, Home, Dust

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• I used to lie here like this all summer long,' I tell her. 'I'd come up here and just stare at the sky.' She rolls over on her back so she's staring up as well. 'Bet this view hasn't changed much, has it?' What she says is so simple i almost laugh. She's right, of course. 'No. This looks exactly the same.' I suppose that's the secret, If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up.

  Lauren Oliver

  Summer, Lying, Simple

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• all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Television, World

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.92, Dial Press

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• I was in his hands, he called me by the thunder at my ear. I was in his hands: I was being changed; all that I could do was cling to him. I did not realize, until I realized it, that I was also kissing him, that everything was breaking and changing and turning in me and moving toward him.

  James A. Baldwin

  Moving, Kissing, Hands

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• It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Normal, Strange, Happens

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• How could you not know?" His voice was full of wonderment. "You changed me utterly. You were like a...like a bright, wonderful bloom in a garden full of weeds. Like a graceful capital on a page of plain script, a letter decorated with the deepest, finest colors in all Erin. Like a flame, Caitrin. Like a song.

  Juliet Marillier

  Weed, Song, Garden

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• the scary part is that people don't realize how much they've changed .

  Simone Elkeles

  People, Scary, Realizing

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Leaving Paradise”, p.192, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• Pain didn't ever really stop, he thought; it just changed forms.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Pain, Form

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