#ma

The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent. ↗

— Ha-Joon Chang

#inequality #change

She was utterly unlike what she had been when he first saw her. Both morally and physically she had changed for the worse. [...] He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#relevant #truth #beauty

Celia." he says without looking up at her, "why do we wind our watch?" "Because everything requires energy," she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. "We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#erin-morgenstern #marco-celia #the-night-circus #change

I'm never going to get married." "You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind." "No. My mind's made up. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#married #sylvia-plath #the-bella-jar #change

Sky passed out on the road today," Karen says, changing the subject. "Some adorable man-boy carried her inside." I laugh. "Guy, Mom. Please just say guy. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#man-boy #sky-davis #change

But the world moves on, even when you don't want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops. ↗

— Ann Aguirre

#change

It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance. ↗

— Lisa Scottoline

#romance #equality

...go in the direction your head is pointed in. ↗

— Jung Chang

#change

People who discriminate doesn't understand that they are a stranger to others. ↗

— Jestoni Revealed

#social-change #change

This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the past. The bad news is, you don't have to worry, no matter how hard you try, you can't change the past. The universe just doesn't put up with that. We aren't important enough. No one is. Even in our own lives. We're not strong enough, willful enough, skilled enough in chronodiegetic manipulation to be able to just accidentally change the entire course of anything, even ourselves. ↗

— Charles Yu

#change #chronodiegetic-manipulation #good-news #life #the-universe