“We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear.”— Haruki Murakami Related Quotes “The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman’s sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh.”— Hilary Mantel “All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.”– P. J. O’Rourke “You know that smell, when you put your nose up to a pine tree?” I told her I did perfectly. “No matter how long it has been, you always will. Like you are storing a part of that tree in your own body. … Everything stays true. You are yourself, no matter how much you have to change.”— Ramona Ausubel