#hang

Like a squash ball, locked inside an all-glass court, played in a never ending Sisyphean rally between two invisible and equally able opponents, that’s what the Digital State first felt like. A descriptor in search of a winning shot, to break the deadlock, to set it free. ↗

— Simon Pont

#change

I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'll take up attacking women - it's a bloody hard way to make a living. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#women #change

The Way It Is There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old. Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding. You don’t ever let go of the thread. ~ William Stafford ~ ↗

— William Stafford

#loss #poetry #change

Change: How much do you want it? Change: How much do you need it? ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#change

all appears to change when we change ↗

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

#knowledge #perception #wisdom #change

Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction--only enough to make you useless. ↗

— Daniel Nayeri

#madame-vileroy #useless #change

In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little... But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#change

When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a vagrant, an animal who runs and hides. I startle old women and amaze children. I am a trick, an illusion of the highest order, so incredible that I am actually true. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#time-travel #change

I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do. ↗

— Ann Aguirre

#change

Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#change