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I work in my study, taking the collections of words that people send me and making small adjustments to them, changing something here and there, checking everything is in order and putting a part of myself into the text by introducing just a little bit of difference. ("Substitutions") ↗

— Michael Marshall Smith

#proofreading #change

There's nothing wrong with seeing. If you see a "bad future", just change it, is all. Things'll turn out okay, as long as you don't give up! ↗

— Sakura Tsukuba

#land-of-the-blindfolded #change

It was like a slap. I dont remember her being mean before that. It made Miranda smile. The smile that unlocked something in Beth like a key ↗

— Karen Foxlee

#change

He's changed. I don't know what caused it...but what the heck? He's laughin' anyway, like a regular kid. ↗

— Sakura Tsukuba

#ootake #change

The perfectly measured burr of a dispassionate detective had suddenly changed into the explosive boom of a take-no-shit street cop. Suffice it to say, I froze. ↗

— Cleo Coyle

#detective #humor #change

The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#change

The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport is a major way of getting them off computers and leading healthier lives. ↗

— Kirsty Gallacher

#computers #day #eat #getting #healthier

She realized that the photograph had caused his reaction. It came to her almost as a revelation. Think of it: a photographer presses a button. A few hours later and half a world away, some dots of ink on a news print showed what he had seen-and had the power to touch peoples emotions, perhaps to change their way of thinking. ↗

— Soheir Khashoggi

#photography #the-power-of-images #change

But you have to let go of it sometime, Gaby. You can't change the past, any of it, and hanging on just eats your life away. ↗

— Soheir Khashoggi

#change

In a moment, everything can change and in a moment, you can change everything. ↗

— Daniel Wallace

#king-and-queens-of-roam #life #change