Quotes About Evolution

It was hard to remember what the yard had looked like even twelve hours before, undisturbed and pristine. Like it takes so little to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.

Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.

Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time.

I knew that in the last few minutes everything had changed. I'd tried to hold myself apart, showing only what I wanted, doling out bits and pieces of who I was. But that only works for so long. Eventually, even the smallest fragments can't help but make a whole.

Later, though, I wished I had spoken up, or at least tried to explain that once I knew Cora better than anyone. But that was a long time ago, back when she wasn"t trying to save the whole world. Only me.

It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing.

It doesn't matter whether you're the one having to douse a flame or helplessly watching it sputter. Either way, it goes out eventually.

So I pulled back from everything and everyone I'd known....I realized I'd been changing even before we started moving,that my reinvention began when I was still in the most familiar of places. Once the setting was totally new,though, I finally could be,as well.

In the last few weeks, I had changed. But in my mind, those changes had been for the better. I was finally getting over things, stepping over the careful box I'd drawn around myself all those months ago.

Destinations are overrated, as long as your moving, your going somewhere

It's like forever, always changing.

Family isn't something that's supposed to be static or set. People marry in, divorce out. They're born, they die. It's always evolving, turning into something else.

And with that, my mother was off and running. Hard to believe that once schmoozing was as painful to her as multiple root canals. But when you had to do something, you had to do it. And eventually, if you were lucky, you did it well

Something was changing, something I could sense even though I'd never been here before, like the way baby turtles know to go to the water at birth, instinctively. They just know.

I deserved to grow, and to change, to become all the girls I could ever be over the course of my life, each one better than the last.

And somewhere in between then and now irony slipped its way into my vocabulary. Laughter became the antidote for guilt. Sacrifice grew to be a Band-Aid for shame.

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.

The trouble with setting goals is that you're constantly working toward what you used to want.

If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.

noticed, it seemed as if the wagon had expanded overnight. She paused to

We were not always freaks. Sure, most of us occasionally exhibited freakish behavior. But that's not the same thing. This is the story of how we became freaks. It's how a group of Is became a we.

Just as night always turns into day, there will always be endings that turn into new beginnings

some quality that was there before has been stolen. The scholar is still there, thought Taliesin, but I believe that the poet has gone.

My lips are chapped from the winds of change.