#fiction

The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time. ↗

When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#short-stories #writing #change

In AR, a falling tree makes no sound unless there is a witness to behold the event. Otherwise, it is only a changing pattern in a complex data-stream. ↗

— Mark Cantrell

#science-fiction #virtual-reality #change

Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change. ↗

— Atul Purohit

#fiction #life #love #novel #change

By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains malleable, and retains the possibility of change, the hope of coming to prevail; victory, to use an unfashionable word. In this, the future is a game; time is one of the rules. ↗

— Iain M. Banks

#change

The impatient man of courage is like a premature ejaculation. ↗

— Elizaveta Mikhailichenko

#courage

...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go." From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#dating #female #fiction #love #relationship

In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#novel #beauty

Justice will prevail! ↗