“I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“The danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Suddenly I wonder, ‘Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years go? What would she think of me now?’”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the pro…”— Alice Walker, amazon.com
“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don’t really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.”— Matt Haig, amazon.com
“I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you’ve got, instead of what you don’t.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.”— Orson Scott Card, amazon.com
“Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.”— John Green, amazon.com
“I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?”— John Green, amazon.com
“I haven’t been myself lately, but I love you. Nothing about that has changed, and nothing ever will.”— George Mastras, Walter White, Bryan Cranston, amazon.com
“He's gonna change the world one day. I know this because he already changed mine.”— Kirsten Corley, facebook.com
“People aren't used to that way of thinking, they want everything to stay the same -- and the consequences of that is pain.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“There are worse things than being thirty-five, single, and female in New York. Like: Being twenty-five, singled, and female in New York. It's a rite of passage few women would want to repeat. It's about sleeping with the wrong men, wearing the wrong clothes, having the wrong roommate, saying the wro…”— Candace Bushell, amazon.com
“Surviving your 20s is sometimes nothing more glamorous than just holding on for dear life on the back of an inner tube like a kid being whipped around by a speedboat…And your only choice of survival is to just let go.”— Paul Angone, amazon.com