“Je mehr sich die Dinge ändern, desto mehr bleibt alles beim alten.”
Source: Schande. Limitierte Sonderausgabe.
“Places change imperceptibly – in detail, at least – a good deal,' said the Doctor, making an effort to keep up a conversation that plainly would not go on itself; 'and people too; population shifts – there's an old fellow, sir, they call Death.”
Source: The Haunted Baronet and Others: Ghost Stories 1861-70
“This world is too comfort to be changed.
This world is too corrupt to be conserved.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Because being American is more than a pride we inherit--
It's the past we step into, and how we repair it.”
Source: Call Us What We Carry
“C. S. Lewis once observed that grief is not a state but a process. It’s a river that runs through a long valley, and at every turn a new landscape is revealed, and yet somehow it repeats and repeats. Periods of grief and suffering often shatter our basic assumptions about who we are and how life works. We tend to assume that the world is benevolent, that life is controllable, that things are supposed to make sense, that we are basically good people who deserve good things. Suffering and loss can blast all that to smithereens.”
Source: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“She longed for the shape of the rifle in her hand. How easily the gun made the world change the way she wanted.”
Source: Sky Full of Elephants
“Sometimes, you might find it impossible to change things outside yourself, but you must remember that life isn’t about what happens to you, it is more about how you react to it.”
“It was kind of funny—the thing that had annoyed me so much about him in the beginning was what I dearly appreciated now.”
Source: First & Then
“You have every cause for anxiety. We are on the threshold of a more searching, more honest, more open society.”
Source: The Melancholy of Resistance
“You want a problem to fix? Fix how you look at me.”
Source: Five Feet Apart