#hang

Bottom line? As much as you wanted someone to change and believed they could, they were in control of their life. Not you. And you could throw yourself against the wall of their choices until you were black-and-blue and dizzy as hell, but unless they decided to take a different road, the outcome wasn’t going to be what you wanted. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#crave #fallen #ward #change

To change one's life: 1. Start immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. ↗

— William James

#change

And I don't just mean that they change you. A lot of people can change you—the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. It's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people. ↗

— Sara Zarr

#change

You know what? Don’t even worry about it,” I said. “Cory Wheeler already asked me. I can tell him I changed my mind.” “Who the hell is Corky Wheeler? ↗

— Jenny Han

#giddy #jealous-conrad #change

Miss Cecily," she gasped, and then her eyes went to Will. She clapped a hand over her mouth, turned, and bolted back into the house. "Oh, dear," said Tessa. "I have that effect on women," Will said. " I probably should have warned you before you agreed to marry me." "I can still change my mind," Tessa said sweetly. "Don't you dare-," he began with a breathless half laugh. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#marriage #tessa-gray #will-herondale #change

Mom always liked to say that we hardly ever know the decisions we make that change our lives, mostly because they are little ones. You took this bus instead of that one and ended up meeting your soul mate, that kind of thing. But there was no doubt in my mind that this was one of those life-changing moments. ↗

— Rachel Hawkins

#decisions #life #change

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#spiritual #change

I won’t lie. I want to beat the hell out of any man who’s had you—you’d be smart to keep them the hell away from me—but nothing in your past can change how I feel about you. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#love #change

People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change. ↗

— John Zorn

#change #hard #hard time #people #sometimes

Eliza: The problem with YOU is that you don't take the RESPONSIBILITY for anything@ You think you can just run around, doing whatever you want to whoever you want, and that it's going to be fine. That everything is just going to be TAKE CARE of for you, with no consequences. Cooper: No. I don't, and I have had consequences from what happened with me and you. Eliza: Yeah? Like what? Cooper: I lost you, that was my consequence. ↗

— Lauren Barnholdt

#hurt #lost #love #responsibility #change