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Robert, I’m sorry that you feel so strange, but I’m not sorry that you’re feeling it because of me,” I whispered, my heart feeling a familiar twinge as I continued, “but even if you hadn’t felt it, it would not change the way I feel about you. ↗

— S.L. Naeole

#love #paranormal #romance #teens #urban-fantasy

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#diet #health #religion #change

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#education #ignorance #change

And I started to cry again, realizing that it must be changing him, too, this man who was kind enough to be a soul but strong as only a human could be. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#wanda #change

For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities. ↗

— John Dewey

#education #isms #change

I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and on and on. I cannot conceive of anything in the universe that has more meaning than that." [Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe, Locus Magazine, September 1998] ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#continuum #history #humanity #individuals #mankind

I have lived for over three hundred years. In that time, the ideal of beauty has changed many times. Large breasts, small, thin, curved, tall, short, they have all been the height of beauty at one time or another. But in all that time, ma petite, I have never desired anyone the way I desire you." - Jean-Claude ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#beauty

Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going to find out which principles you'll stand by to your death--and which lines you'll cross." He took my empty glass away and said, "You're heading into the badlands. It'll be easy to get lost. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#mac-mcanally #principles #change

It is a very strange thing, to be in love. It changes you. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem-carstair #will-herondale #change

If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#sad #sweet #love