Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

It's very easy to think that the way things are is the way things will stay, and life just isn't like that.

Anything that keeps me off balance is vital.

Living here in California, I think one of the scariest things about California is the fact that it is rewriting its script and changing constantly and so many people don't know who they will be and who they will be with a year from now.

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.

Nothing is forever except change.

It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.

Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.

How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange?

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.

With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.

We live in changing times, and many people experience the challenges that come with it. In the face of uncertain futures, no one will know what to expect.

Life is like this: things come and go.

When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there was a real sense of powerlessness.

Change is the only constant in this unsteady world.

It's amazing how quickly things can change.

Everybody in the world knows that plans tend to change.

Things are constantly evolving, and anything could happen. And that's exciting to me.

Things always change in football, and you can never predict anything.