There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.

There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.

—Dana Reinhardt in The Summer I Learned to Fly

When there’s something or someone, when there’s anything that makes you happy, you don’t let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart.

—Dana Reinhardt in The Summer I Learned to Fly

Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don’t intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or intentions you thought were harmless, but before you knew it things got out of your control.

—Dana Reinhardt in Harmless

Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don’t weigh them down like a sack full of stones.

—Dana Reinhardt in The Summer I Learned to Fly

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

—Libba Bray in The Sweet Far Thing

I can feel my life changing and I'm not ready.

—Jennifer Elisabeth

What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

—Havelock Ellis

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

—Rumi