Deborah Eisenberg Quotes

I think that Michael [Gove] felt things had changed.

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

All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky. That's what I want now, and I think it's what you should want too. But it will be too late soon. We'll become too set to change. If we don't take our chance now, another may never come for either of us.

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all

The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern.

The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.

Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose around you so you couldn't hear yourself think. And then, when the roar died down, even when the fires were damped, everything was different.

Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out, Do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

Growth is a detox process, as our weakest, darkest places are sucked up to the surface in order to be released...often, it is not a change in partners but rather a change in perception that delivers us to the love we seek.

If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.

Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of compromises (so long as we do not compromise our values).

Reform is a process, and not an event.

When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.

Sometimes I think you like me better as a wolf." "Sometimes I do. It probably has something to do with the way you CAN'T TALK.

Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

You can't find that moment when you became somebody else, because everything is in flux. So as it were, the torturous period where you are changing, you are transforming - I think that can be very hard on somebody's system. You don't necessarily realize that is what's happening.

When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to.

All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before—but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.

You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.