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[W]e are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were. ↗

— Anthony Lane

#failure #learning #change

One day u will be the message...a message for those who still alive... ↗

— Fayrouz Yasser

#death #فيروزيات #change

The distance to the corner shops of childhood becomes unfathomable, immeasurable; the candy bars have changed. And change has changed. ↗

— Ilse Aichinger

#childhood #past #age

…for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great change. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #business

You belong with us," he said quietly. "Nothing's going to change that. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#change

For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails…and when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him forever.” — Anonymous Curse on Book Theives from the Monaster of San Pedro, Barcelona, Spain ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#essays #literature #quotes-to-live-by #change

Permanence, I once copied down from a magazine, is what we all want when we can love and can be loved; change is what we want when we cannot. ↗

— Nuala O'Faolain

#change

It's life that's all. There are no happy endings just happy days happy moments. The only real ending is death and trust me no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it. ↗

— Jonathan Trooper

#change

...I decided I'd changed my mind about home. Home was not Pensacola San Diego Guam or any of the other places we might have lived. In fact home wasn't any particular place at all. Home was my family. Even if they didn't get my jokes sometimes. ↗

— Kimberly Willis Holt

#home #military-family #change

he loved her deeply and irrevocably. His life would be forever changed and if she weren't in his life, well, it would be meaningless". ↗

— Laura Hunsaker

#change