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“People who complain about something that they cannot do anything about are as irritating as those who complain about something that they can do something about.”

Book:N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

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“Men's lives are not progressions, as conventionally rendered in history paintings, nor are they a series of facts that may be enumerated & in their proper order understood. Rather they are a series of transformations, some immediate & shocking, some so slow as to be imperceptible, yet so complete & horrifying that at the end of his life a man may search his memory in vain for a moment of correspondence between his self in his dotage & him in his youth.”

Life Growth Change Ageing

Book:Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish

Source: Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish

“The boundaries of this world are forever shifting – from day to night, joy to sorrow, love to hate, and from life itself to death; and who can say at what moment we may suddenly cross over the border, from one state of existence to another, like heat applied to some flammable substance? I have been given my own ever-changing margins, across which I move, continually and hungrily, like a migrating animal. Now civilized, now untamed; now responsive to decency and human concern, now viciously attuned to the darkest of desires.”

Character Change Boundaries Characteristics Margins Definition Alteration

Book:The Meaning of Night

Source: The Meaning of Night

“And as the wind gusted against those windows, I saw how, in an instant, I lost my shelter. This truth had hardly escaped me until then, far from it, but the clarity of that moment was overwhelming. And I am still shaking. They would indeed be aghast to see the mess I am now. This is not me, this is now who I was with them.”

Change Loss Grief Mourning

Book:Wave

Source: Wave

“Don't sit around and wait for the perfect opportunity to come along —find something and make it an opportunity.”

Inspirational Opportunity Change Careers Feminism Social Justice Planned Parenthood Reproductive Rights Cecile Richards

Book:Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

Source: Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

“She had the feeling that she would be different from now on, that she could never go back and be the same person she had been. So who am I now? Somebody fierce, I think. Somebody who’d enjoy running through the darkness, underneath stars bright as miniature suns, and maybe even hunt deer. Somebody who can laugh and death”

Change Powerful Fierce Rebirth Changing

Book:Daughters of Darkness

Source: Daughters of Darkness

“For a moment we're both silent, staring. I wonder if either of us really sees the other clearly anymore or if we stuck looking at the frozen images of who we used to be.”

Change

Book:The Love That Split the World

Source: The Love That Split the World

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