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• These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Railroads, Coal, Ems

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• That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.

  Patrick Ness

  Doe, Don't Change, Thrown

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• Oh, my god," Augustus said. "i can't believe i have a crush on a girl with such cliché wishes." "i was thirteen," i said again, although of course i was only thinking "crush crush crush crush crush". I was flattered but changed the subject immediately.

  John Green

  Crush, Girl, Believe

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• I would've hit the water hard, but at the last second I changed into a falcon. ~Carter Kane

  Rick Riordan

  Water, Lasts, Falcon

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• Maia pulled on a braid. "I ran into Eric of all people. He told me what happened and that you'd backed out of Millenium Lint's gigs for the past two weeks because of it." "Actually, they changed their name," Jordan said. "They're Midnight Burrito now.

  Cassandra Clare

  Past, Names, Two

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1836, Simon and Schuster

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• Where’s your sketch pad?” I asked. … “I gave that up,” Kay said. “I wasn’t very good, so I changed my major.” “To what?” “To pre-med, then psychology, then English lit, then history.” “I like a woman who knows what she wants.” Kay smiled. “So do I, but I don’t know any.

  James Ellroy

  Psychology, Want, Pads

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• My mood has changed now. And the sun has gone behind the clouds. I'm in this mood I feel occasionally... this mood where there's a very good friend nearby who I should be phoning. If only I could reach that friend and talk, then everything would be just fine. The dilemma is, of course, I just don't know who that friend is. But in my heart I know my mood is merely me feeling disconnected from my true inner self.

  Douglas Coupland

  Heart, Good Friend, Clouds

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

  Jay McInerney

  Lines

  Jay McInerney (2011). “Bright Lights, Big City”, p.34, Vintage

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• I've changed since I've known you. Not because you made me into someone else - but because you showed me a path I'd never paid attention to, and I chose to follow it.

  Tammara Webber

  Attention, Path, I've Changed

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• You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you.

  Lucy Christopher

  Smile, Faces, Kind

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.

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• It used to be thought that the events that changed the world were things like big bombs, maniac politicians, huge earthquakes, or vast population movements, but it has now been realized that this is a very old-fashioned view held by people totally out of touch with modern thought. The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

  Neil Gaiman

  Butterfly, Views, Europe

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running -panting- to catch up.

  Ahdaf Soueif

  Running, Moving, World

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• With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Father, Everyday, Ordinary

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.312, Faber & Faber

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• Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable. She was thrilled to be back.

  Nora Roberts

  Coffee, Views, Three

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.754, Penguin

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• Some things can't be changed. They'll always happen the way they were supposed to.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Way, Happens

  Anthony Horowitz (2012). “The Gatekeepers #2: Evil Star”, p.237, Scholastic Inc.

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• Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Stories, Matter, Reason

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.352, Random House

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• Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We get used to our failures and imperfections. We become numb to the possibilities of something new

  Jonah Lehrer

  Imperfection, World, Reason Why

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• And then you came along and you spoke to me and nobody had looked me in the eye for years. (...) But I remember you that day and you looked at peace with yourself and it made me reconsider everything I had planned to do. Because I thought to myself, you can't do this to her, not after the Hermit thing." "Do what to me? I don't think leaving me on that platform would have changed my life, Griggs," I lie. "You being on that platform changed mine.

  Melina Marchetta

  Lying, Eye, Thinking

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• Most of the dandelions had changed from suns to moons.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Moon, Sun, Dandelions

  "Lolita".

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• I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed

  Algernon Blackwood

  Reality, Proof, Standards

  Algernon Blackwood (2014). “Delphi Complete Novels of Algernon Blackwood (Illustrated)”, p.2910, Delphi Classics

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• there was a time before you but I can't remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I'm sure I lived without you but I don't remember how can't imagine living without these feelings you've produced just one glance and my life was redrawn just one word and my vocabulary changed I asked the time and you said 'what's the hurry?' you asked my name and I almost forgot

  David Levithan

  Vocabulary, Names, Feelings

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.35, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Self, Views

  BBC Radio Talk: "Beyond Personality -- Mere Men", Broadcast 21 March 1944, BBC Home Service Radio

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• I love you. I know the real you too. You think I don't but how easily you forget I was the one who bailed you out of trouble over and over again as kids. I didn't ask the perfect Ashton to be my girlfriend when I was fourteen years old. I asked the only Ash I'd ever known. You changed all on your own. I'm not going to lie. I was proud of the girl you had become. My world was complete. I had the perfect family, perfect girl, perfect future. I let myself forget the other girl you once were.

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Real, Lying

  Abbi Glines (2012). “The Vincent Boys”, p.82, Abbi Glines

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• A butterfly symbolized acceptance of each new phase in life. To keep faith as everything around you changed.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Butterfly, Acceptance, Phases

  Lisa Kleypas (2012). “Rainshadow Road”, p.20, Macmillan

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• but all the things Science had promised us hadn't come to pass. Disease was still a problem. Starvation was still a problem. Violence and crime and war were still problems. In spite of the advance of technology, things just hadn't changed the way everyone had hoped and thought they would.

  Jim Butcher

  War, Technology, Disease

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.14, Penguin

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