Change Quotes
Nothing stays the same. These quotes explore transformation, growth, and the courage to start over.
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"Maybe I'm just tired. Maybe I'm just tired of doing the same thing every day."Celie
"Now I see what I must do. I must leave this place."Nettie
"The world you see now, it's just about over"Sheriff Bell
"Things don't make sense no more"Sheriff Bell
"The law aint what it used to be"Sheriff Bell
"The ways of the world have changed"Sheriff Bell
"The old time is gone"Sheriff Bell
"I had been shocked out of my routine."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"The hardest part was accepting my new reality."Pi Patel
"I got to leave"Celie
"One cannot tear out a page of one's life, but one can throw the book in the fire."Jean Valjean
"Things have shifted in me. I'm different. I'm not sure in what way."Offred
"Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you noticed."Offred
"Like an old piece of cloth, I have been patched and repatched, until not much of the original remains."Mariam
"The world is ready for change."Celie
"Things have not been the same since."Offred
"Perhaps it is time I began to look at this whole matter in a new light."Stevens
"The world is changing, and perhaps my methods are of another age."Stevens
"Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it."Offred
"I liked the new ways best."Huckleberry Finn
"One cannot be forever looking back to the past."Stevens
"One cannot change the past, only the future."Stevens
"I am becoming the worst version of myself."Janine
"My first step from the old world to the new."Celie
"The world has turned considerably more complicated than once it was."Stevens
"I have been presented with an opportunity to reconsider."Stevens
"The world moves on whether one is prepared or not."Stevens
"Perhaps I have been too rigid in my thinking."Stevens
"All I was after was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change."Huckleberry Finn
"I was looking for an exit and went deeper in."The Invisible Man (Narrator)