Only then did I realize that during the three weeks that had passed between taking the taxi to Lenox Hill, on the fourteenth of June, and receiving the results of the full-body PET scan, on the eighth of July, I had allowed this year’s most deeply blue nights to come and go without my notice. What d…
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Quotes tagged ‘Change’
Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get—a cold sick feeling, deep down inside—when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but you can’t stop it. And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before…
You knew me once, but you won’t know me twice.
But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.
I have a growing queue of things I know will make you laugh and I don’t know where to put them.
Forgiveness is the release of all hope for a better past.
Getting over it doesn't mean forgetting it, it just means reducing the pain to a tolerable level, a level that doesn't destroy you.
They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.
Sometimes you want things to change so badly, you can’t even stand to be in the same room with the way things actually are.
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
What was the lifespan of these improbable loves? An hour. A week. A few months at best. The end was a natural thing, like the seasons, like getting older, fruit turning. That was the saddest part—there was no one to blame and no way to reverse
Learning to sleep in new places was an ability you were supposed to lose as you grew older, but I never had it.
I’m learning persistence and the closing of doors, the way the seasons come and go as I keep walking on these roads, back and forth, to find myself in new time zones, new arms with new phrases and new goals. And it hurts to become, hurts to find out about the poverty and gaps, the widow and the leav…
Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.
If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough.
Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.
None of us can take back what we’ve done in the past, the most meaningful apology is how you live the rest of your life.
Many of us find ourselves saying “BUT HE WAS SO GREAT!” Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on vacation. Things changed and it’s important to remember that they did.
It’s not the changes that will break your heart; it’s that tug of familiarity.
Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.