Julia Quinn Quotes

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

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

You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.

I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life.

An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.

The moment you venture out, something takes place in you and about you. Life comes to your aid in various ways. You may not like the form in which it comes to you - it may be misery, struggle, starvation - but when you invite life, things begin to happen.

Things can change in the blink of an eye!

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

All I know since yesterday is everything has changed.

Life change for us every single week so.. It's good but I know this aint the peak though.

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

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

Sometimes we need to lose our way.... to find our way

Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.

It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.

Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been.

I feel like I got a ticket to go to another planet and I'm moving there and there's no turning back, and I don't know if I'm going to like that other planet or have friends there.

Everybody goes through their life in different ways. I definitely am having my journey. It evolves and changes. At some moments, I feel totally off center and trying to find my way back.

Ain't it funny how a moment could just change your life, and you don't want to face what's wrong or right. Ain't it strange how fate can play a part, in the story of your heart.

We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.

The feeling that you get.... when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.