Ally Carter Quotes

There was no closing my eyes and sliding back into that blissful dream of normal. This was my normal now.

It's been quite a 'pattern interrupt', a massive change of the old programming.

I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I'm driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we're leading these four children into unknown waters.

I don't want to say I can't wait to get back to normal life, because I don't. I don't want to get back to normal life.

After September 11th, every day seems like September 12th.

If I could have a family and a home one night, and all of it's gone the next, that must mean that life has the capacity to change. And then I thought, 'Whoa! That means that just as change happens to me, I can cause change in my life.'

I may never have a normal life again.

You've got to realize the world will never be the same.

I can tell that in Refuge the question that was burning in me was, how do we find refuge in change? Everything around me that was familiar had been turned inside out with my mother's diagnosis of ovarian cancer and with the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge being flooded.

I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I'd never take anything for granted again.

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

I do find a certain fascination with the unpredictable. The transitory years we wade through are what they are- what we make of them.

I know," she said, guessing my thoughts. "I know exactly how you feel." "Does it get easier?" I asked. Unlike Sydney, Olena had an answer. "Yes. But you'll never be the same.

And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

Do you have your own room, Charlie Brown?" "Oh, yes... I have a very nice room." "I hope you realize that you won't always have your own room... Someday you'll get drafted or something, and you'll have to leave your room forever!" "Why do you tell me things like that?" "It's on a list I've made up for you... I call it, Things You Might As Well Know!

But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.

i want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.

To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

I have to do what I'm doing at the time. That's the most important thing. You might lose some people along the way, and you might gain other people on the way, that's just the way it is. But nevertheless, if you're driven by something, there is no argument about it; that's what you have to do.