#ang

The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#change

Sometimes people need to know they could be forgiven to have the strength to change. ↗

— J. Leigh Bralick

#hope #change

From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed. ↗

— Justina Chen

#emotional-wounds #verbal-abuse #words #beauty

… the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed, the night to come. — Excerpt from the poem “The Mercy ↗

— Philip Levine

#diamonds #rivers #stars #water #change

It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#change

He didn’t operate on the same frequency as everyone else. On one hand, he was more dangerous than anyone I’d ever met. He could slip into a room, kill you with a spatula, and be out of town before anyone knew about it. On the other, he was the most pure, untarnished soul I’d ever come across. It was an odd mix so uniquely Kale, and I wouldn’t change it for anything in the world. ↗

— Jus Accardo

#change

You can't change the past, only your perception of it; but you can control the future. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#control #future #past #perception #change

It was then, there in the darkness, with only those little pin-points of light to see by, light from a world away where other people with their own problems and their own secrets lived their own lives, that everything in our world changed for good. ↗

— Dana Reinhardt

#consequences-truth #lies #change

Saving one dog will not change the world, but surely for that one dog, the world will change forever. ↗

— Karen Davison

#change

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#change