Becoming Quote by Toni Morrison

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

— Alan Paton

“He hungered for a sense of progress, of new things approaching while old familiar ones receded. It seemed far too long since he’d had…

— Jennifer Egan

“He needed to stop messing up his mind with the future and concentrate on what was at hand.”

— Jan Karon

“It was not his habit to dwell on what might have been but what could never be.”

— Alan Paton

He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.

— Paulo Coelho

“He had lived (without being aware of it) on those spiritual truths that he had sucked in with his mother's milk, but he had…

— Leo Tolstoy

“even reluctant curiosity would give way to habit, and habit to dependency.”

— Edwin G. Burrows

He suddenly became convinced that if he didn’t do something sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before he knew it…

— John Boyne

“I thought he might be toying, some cat-and-mouse routine, but now I think that his motives and desires weren’t obvious even to him. They…

— Margaret Atwood

“His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He realized the things he had left behind were already hiding inside him; now, for the first time, his life had a past, a…

— Bruce Brooks

“His years of dependency were past. It was time to grow up and take charge. It was not going to be easy. But he…

— Mary Balogh