#hang

The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life #sadness #solitude #spirit #change

Stop changing the subject," Taylor snapped. "And think before you speak." Roo pressed her lips together and then sighed. "How long do you want me to think?" Niall let out a snort of laughter. ↗

— Barbara Elsborg

#change

I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign marked WOMEN, thinking it was an exhibition on the changing roles of women in society, and actually ended up standing in the ladies' toilets. ↗

— David Nicholls

#change

I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you. ↗

— Sharon Shinn

#change

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes. ↗

— David Nicholls

#change

When we can no longer change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. ↗

— Viktor Frankl

#change #ourselves #situation #change

I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did. ↗

— Lisa Unger

#change

So the more things stay the same, the more they change after all. ↗

— John Knowles

#john-knowles #change

Isn't that... isn't that what friends do? They change our perspective on the world. Part of why we care about them is because we love that feeling. The feeling of being changed. ↗

— Marie Rutkoski

#change

[A]s soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and it's like a moment where, in that moment you forget how it was and it's this new way. And then when you make a record, even those ideas that you had, then those get all turned and changed. So in the end, I think, it just becomes it's own thing and really I think a song could be recorded a million different ways and so what my records are, it just happened like that, but it's not like, this is how I planned it from the very beginning because I have no idea, I can't remember. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#songwriting #writing #change