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“And anyway, some things could never be fixed, not properly anyway.”

Book:All That I Leave Behind: A powerful, heart-breaking story of family secrets

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“But why should she not announce to the family that she was going to change, was in the process of changing? She could not. They would see it as a claim on their attention, their compassion. (...) (That was not how people changed; they didn't change themselves: you got changed by being made to live through something, and then you found yourselve changed.)”

Children Change Family Wife Motherhood Metamorphose

Book:The Summer Before the Dark

Source: The Summer Before the Dark

“I lean against the kitchen sink, listening as the piano tells the one story that is every story: we are small, we are scared, we are brave. We love, we hurt, we fall apart, we change, we let go, we go on. We become unrecognizable. We stay more or less the same - small and scared. It goes forever. Stay as long as you can.”

Stories Change Storytelling

Book:The Lover

Source: The Lover

“A labor union is revolutionary in fact. It is not the expressed desire to change the world; it is the change already embodied if not completed.”

Change Revolution Unions

Book:The Labor Movement : Its Conservative Functions and Social Consequences / (1921) [Leather Bound]

Source: The Labor Movement : Its Conservative Functions and Social Consequences / (1921) [Leather Bound]

“The butterfly that shakes the dust from its wings before resuming its flight cares little for the remains of the chrysalis in which it once lived.”

Change Transformation Looking Forward No Regrets

Book:Cade la terra

Source: Cade la terra

“It's not like anything is going to change, but. "It's not like nothing is going to change," Senjogahara said at the end.”

Change Monogatari

Author:NisiOisiN

“Survival is a hard habit to break.”

Change Survival Trauma Habits

Book:Starling House

Source: Starling House

“They were pale and worried, with that heavy, fixed expression which can always be seen on the faces of those who have something to lose when faced with unexpected events and important changes.”

Change

Book:The Bridge on the Drina

Source: The Bridge on the Drina

“Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world, A white-hair'd shadow roaming like a dream The ever-silent spaces of the East, Far-folded mists, and gleaming halls of morn.”

Death Change Immortality Decay

Book:Tithonus

Source: Tithonus

“Systemic change takes time, but individual choice can be immediate.”

Change Social Justice Radical Accountability Solidarity Systemic Change Gradualism

Author:Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“Don't hate yourself for what you had no control over, promise me that much.”

Change Chance Regret Promises

Book:The Gilded Cage

Source: The Gilded Cage

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