Constant Quote by Philip Larkin

She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her…

— Gustave Flaubert

In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes…

— A.S.A. Harrison

“A sense of change, of individual nothingness, of perplexity and disappointment, overpowered Margaret. Nothing had been the same; and this slight, all-pervading instability, had…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much…

— Gillian Anderson

She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person.…

— Susan Minot

Her life improved dramatically when she decided to break the rules and find beauty where she was told there was none.

— Anonymous

For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none.

— Anne Rice

“Her experience had been of a kind to teach her, rightly or wrongly, that the doubtful honor of a brief transit through a sorry…

— Thomas Hardy

...it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while others might initially enter…

— Susan Minot

“Because sometimes Lucky wanted to change everything, all the bad things that had happened, and sometimes she wanted everything to stay the same forever.”

— Susan Patron

She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.

— Marguerite Duras

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

— Madeleine L'Engle