#ge

How peaceful it was, with the light evening breeze stirring the small leaves of the grapevine that clustered around the electric bulb, making the shadows move and change on the yellow mat below. For a moment he pushed aside the thought of money. From time to time the dark water beside them rippled audibly, as if a tiny fish had come to the surface for an instant and then darted beneath. It was in peaceful moments such as this, his father had said, that men were given to know just a little of what paradise was like, so that they might yearn for it with all their soul,and strive during their time on earth to be worthy of going there. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#yearning #change

Have you ever felt happy and miserable at the same time?” I sighed. “Yes.” Hutch sat up. He threw the covers back and got out of bed. He opened up the blinds sending rays of bright sunlight into his room. “But I got over it. I figured out no matter how much I worried about it nothing ever changed. ↗

— Holly Hood

#life #love #change

All I want is your assurance that you will treat my daughter with kindness.” Derek had never talked to another man so earnestly; no maneuvering or shrewdness, nothing but humble honesty. “I want to be more than kind to Sara. I want to keep her safe, and happy, and provide whatever will please her. I don’t pretend to deserve her. I’m not educated or wellborn, and even the devil wouldn’t have my reputation. My one saving grace is that I’m not a fool. I would never interfere with her writing, or any of the projects she chooses for herself. Iw ould never try to separate Sara from her family. I respect her too much for that. I don’t want to change her. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas - Dreaming of You

#marriage #change

This will be my last year, Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank You. ↗

— Beth Nimmo

#inspiration #inspirational #life #life-changing #love

It's barely changed since the faceless colour committee originally selected it in 1908 when the first map of the Underground was designed and the Bakerloo conclusively became brown, a very early twentieth-century brown, which brings something of the nineteenth century with it - the colour of Sherlock Holmes's pipe, a Gladstone bag, a grandfather clock. ↗

— Paul Morley

#brown #gladstone-bag #london-underground #sherlock-holmes #change

You winked, took the change. I should have seen it, Ed, as a sign that you were unreliable. Instead, I saw it as a sign of charming, which is why I didn't break it off right then and there. ↗

— Daniel Handler

#heartbreak #love #change

evolution is not progress, that there is no ‘goal’ or direction to evolution. Evolution is change. Evolution ‘succeeds’ if that change best adapts some leaf or branch of its tree of life to conditions of the universe. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#change

Truth: I realised there is no escaping reality but dreaming changes the perception of what it was to what it can become C’mon now dream on dream big dream slow dream bright Let your dreams flow let them take flight Only your dreams alone can and will always show you the light ↗

— Lebogang Lynx Bopape

#change

They had kissed. He was now person who had kissed another person, and been kissed in return. He would never be the same as he was before. Kissing changed everything. ↗

— Jenn Reese

#change

home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else's ass. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#change