For The Better Quotes

“After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I gave you everything," Hal shouted.
"No, you took everything!" she yelled back. "You took my name away!"
Hal looked as bewildered as if she'd slapped him. Then his jolly, reasonable look was back, the mask once again in place.
"Daisy," he said, his voice calm.
"That's not my name!" she shrieked.
He reached out to put his hands on her shoulders, as he'd done so many times before, to hold her still, to instruct her, and in her head she ducked and saw Hal stumbling forward, grabbing for the wobbly post, the one that had never been repaired. She saw his feet skid on the slick surface of the deck, saw his arms pinwheeling, hands groping, reaching for her, for help that wouldn't come. She saw him fall, thudding down one, two, three, four, five, six flights of stairs, to lie, broken and motionless, on the sand, limbs twisted, eyes open to the rain. She saw herself look down at him, seeing nothing but a male body around a man-shaped void. Not a man at all, but a creature with cold, flat eyes, a monster with instincts for self-preservation and a species of low cunning, but not a man, not a person who had loved her, or anyone.”
― Jennifer Weiner, That Summer

“You can stare into space or you can change the world for the better.”
― Steven Magee

“He endured and even retaliated a handful of times until his wife gave birth to twin daughters. He became afraid for his girls. Parenthood has a funny way of making even the most apathetic person want to change the world for the better,”
― Marie Mistry, Traitor Witch