“Why does Jesus tell his disciples to "shake off" the dust from towns that reject them? One reason: there are many others waiting to hear your message. Go first to places where the ground is fertile. But also be open to returning to the old places. Because people change.”— James Martin, SJ, twitter.com
“Remember: sometimes the person we think will hurt us and make us fall is instead one of the few who will help us to get up.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“I realized that I was holding on to something that didn't exist anymore. That the person I missed didn't exist anymore. People change.”— Sarah Ockler, amazon.com
“...please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.”— John Fowles, amazon.com
“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“The fellowcreatures who have played a leading part in one’s life very rarely disappear from it suddenly with any finality. They return to take their old place in it at odd moments… before leaving it for ever”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”— Yann Martel, amazon.com
“Maybe growing up was really nothing more than growing away: from your old life, from your old self, from all those things that kept you tethered to your past.”— Jennifer E. Smith, amazon.com
“What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.”— T. S. Eliot, amazon.com
“Sometimes people become roses. You love them, but it hurts to hold on.”— Brittany Atkins, instagram.com
“How do you go from eight years of a happy marriage to wanting to blow someone's head off?”— Sharon Horgan, Frances, Sarah Jessica Parker, imdb.com