Quotes About Evolution

You'd always be mourning what once was. It would always be a little bit . . . less.

After she left, after that summer, things were the same and they weren't. She and I were still friends, but not best friends, not like we used to be. But we were still friends. She'd know me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away part of yourself.

I suppose you cannot hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.

I thought Genevieve was someone I would know forever. Those people in your life that you just always know, no matter what. But it's not that way. Here we are, three years later, and we're worse than strangers.

In some ways, he was the same Jeremiah, but in other ways, I could see how this had changed him. Had aged him. Everything took more effort, his jokes, his smiles. Nothing was easy anymore.

you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on

The thing is, you get used to it. Before you even realise it's happening, you get used to things being different...

Everything's changing," I say, sighing.

We three probably won't ever live in the same house together again. We'll come home for holidays and school breaks, but it won't be the same. It won't be what it was. But I suppose it hasn't been, not since Margot left for college. The thing is, you get used to it. Before you even realize it's happening, you get used to things being different, and it will be that way for Kitty too.

Things are ending, but they are beginning, too.

The place changed while I wasn't looking.

She and I were still friends, but not best friends, not like we used to be. But we were still friends. She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

Like everyone else that came before him, they were all to prepare me for this.

A lot of the stuff people are wearing, the kids from school wear too. Fashion really is cyclical.

It can be tough with best friendships. You're both growing and changing, and it's hard to grow and change at the same rate.

The thought of her getting older, outgrowing her toys, her art set…it makes me feel a bit melancholy. Growing up really is bittersweet.

I guess that's part of growing up, too—saying good-bye to the things you used to love.

Dating" didn't feel like the right word for it. We were just together. It all happened so easily and so quickly that it felt like it had always been that way. One minute we were friends, then we were kissing,

You're both growing and changing and it's hard to grow and change at the same rate.

Why keep something just because it's old? New is almost always better than old, you know.

Yo también estaba creciendo. Las cosas no podían seguir igual para siempre.

Sometimes I don't think about her at all, and then...and then sometimes I'll have a thought like, I wonder what she would think of me now? She only knew me as a little girl, and now I'm a teenager, and I wonder, if she saw me on the street, would she recognize me?

és elt?n?dtem, vajon így múlik-e el a régi szerelem: lassan, panaszosan, aztán egyszer csak teljesen.

And that's how it goes with people you see a lot. They mend, almost on their own.