Ally Carter Quotes

The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.

A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It was a strangely disorienting feeling, to have something you'd relied on for so long start to change, like finding out that gravity no longer worked on Mondays.

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

Most experiences provoke a transformation in you. So, when you live something, live it fully because you never know when this is going to happen again and not only that, if it even happens again, it will not have the same impact.

We can't afford to waste time going slow on changing our party so now is not the time to put our foot on the brake. Now is the time to press on the accelerator.

We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?

How could you not know?" His voice was full of wonderment. "You changed me utterly. You were like a...like a bright, wonderful bloom in a garden full of weeds. Like a graceful capital on a page of plain script, a letter decorated with the deepest, finest colors in all Erin. Like a flame, Caitrin. Like a song.

Then a lightning bolt shot straight through my skivvies. Sha-ZAM!

Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

One play can change your momentum forever.

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

To speak a true word is to transform the world.

If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something.

I'm a different person today than I was yesterday. I live for the moment and everything that happens in my life changes me.

Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.

Jay wondered how they'd feel the morning they all woke up and realized that somehow Camelot had turned into Mordor.

But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had changed him forever. Perfect love did that to a person and this had been perfect.

I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.

I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.

Words may inspire but only action creates change.