171 quotes found
“I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore....”
“she was flighty and poor, a French studies major who quoted Simone de Beauvoir. She wiped her runny nose on her coat sleeve when it was snowing, stuck her head out of car windows the way dogs do, t...”
“You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here.”
“It wasn't the same. I'm pretty good at making the best of things, but it wasn't the same.”
“People still have the same story, the one where they get born and they do stuff and they die, but now the story means something different to what it meant before.”
“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 qu...”
“It is the same in life; the heart changes, and that is our worst misfortune; but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phen...”
“-but what people expect can change you in the end.”
“Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.”
“It’s good if you can accept your life—you’ll noticeYour face has become deranged trying to adjustTo it. Your face thought your life would lookLike your bedroom mirror when you were ten.That was a c...”
“The big “WHEN” about change is not just a particular moment, but a thought-out planning with clear defined timelines.”
