“Maybe growing up was really nothing more than growing away: from your old life, from your old self, all those things that… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. We'd been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“There was the woman I was before my mom died and the one I was now, my old life sitting on the… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“You became what you wanted to become. That's what Ezra believe. You could become it if you tried hard enough, could take… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Are they changed because they want to go back to their old life, or is it because they're so depressed at realizing… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
'Orphee' is, for me, about changes: about moving to a new city, leaving behind an old life in Copenhagen, and building a… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
This is what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I didn't… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Now that all the beauty of my old life is gone, I crave it like good. A beautiful thing like this rose:… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
“As she pulled away from her old life, the phone rang. She clicked the speakerphone on. Sam’s ebullient voice spilled from the… — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
How do you pick a thread of an old life, how do you go on when I your heart you begin to… — Chris Kings Copy Share Image
I used to ride the school bus to school and just listen to music with my headphones. I'd stick my head out… — ZZ Ward Copy Share Image
“The things of your life arrived in their own time, like a train you had to catch. Sometimes this was easy, all… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“In May, she wrote to tell me that she was coming to New york or a week in June. She was going… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Even in death, some souls leave an intangible mark on the world. It is impossible not to feel them there, feel their… — Bryce O'Connor Copy Share Image
“My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“It's a goodly life that you lead, friends; no doubt the best in the world, if only you are strong enough to… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
You see ... a man like me, a cautious man, has his life all figured out according to a pattern, and then… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything… — Henry Scott Holland Copy Share Image
“in one morning, I had woken up with my first love, crawled into bed with my new love, shed a layer of… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
“Now, I got to do the inventing. I got to do the creating. A new life, my new life, would rise from… — Jim Kraus Copy Share Image
Drive down any road, take a train or an airplane across the world, leave your old life behind, die and be born… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“what you brought from your past, is of no use in your present. When you must choose a new path, do not… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Those are the days that most remind me of my old life in my big house where I'd charge around and act… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
God takes that which is nothing and makes something out of it. When you become a Christian, you cannot patch your Christianity… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you everywhere…. For… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“Their old life seemed far away and remote to him now, like a dream he could not quite remember. The bright green… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share Image
“I want this . I’m committed to this . And this just can’t include pieces of my old life lying around hurting… — Elizabeth Finn Copy Share Image
“In his old life, the answer would have been easy: He'd have just put a gun to Vin's head and dragged the… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“My old life was necessary to me because it was precisely its error that made me take up imagining a hope that,… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“You need to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“maybe coming back to your old life would just be too painful, that maybe it’d be easier for you to erase us.… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
He closed his eyes, dropping his forehead against hers. “You’ll be the death of me, Elena.” She smiled. “You need a little… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
We ring the bells and we raise the strain We hang up garlands everywhere And bid the tapers twinkle fair, And feast… — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey Copy Share Image
“Grief is times bailiff sent to evict you from your old life. Its black warrant demands of you hard labour. There can… — Kerry Cue Copy Share Image
