Ann Brashares Quotes

Everyone can of course take their own meaning, that's the beauty of music and lyrics, but to me it seems like everything is about being attached to the past and being afraid of moving forward, afraid of that big dive or step and losing what was.

Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change - not when you want them to change. Even when it comes to processes they don't like, they're afraid of change.

Buildings like Penn Station attract our protective instincts not only because of their beauty but because we fear what will come to replace them.

I think that human nature is scared of change and justifies it in all sort of ways.

His view of time, and of change, has become that of most elderly people: he hates change, since for him - for his body - any change is for the worse. And if there is to be change, then he wants it to happen quickly, so it does not use up too much of the time remaining to him.

Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.

We're afraid to move on, that's why there's so much nostalgia on the internet... 'cause we don't wanna look forward, that's scary.

People will suffer almost anything, as long as it means they don't have to change.

Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now, anything but now'? And you try and try to remake then, but you know you can't. So you try to hold the moment quite still and not let it move on and show itself.

a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.

I hate change more than almost anything.

At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.

I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.

Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known.

My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away.

Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can.

The whole nostalgia thing, and just sticking with what you always liked and what you know and not taking a chance on something or expanding. I think especially after a certain age.

What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.

The largest enemy of change isn't 'no', it's 'not yet' - that is the easiest way to forestall change.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.