“Deanna's voice softened. "Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him."”

— Nicholas Sparks, book Message in a Bottle

"I know that--"
"But you don't," Deanna said, gently cutting her off. "Or if you do, you don't want to see it that way. Your vision, as they say, has become clouded."
Deanna and Theresa Osbourne, Chapter 10, p. 196
Source: 1990s, Message in a Bottle (1998)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Deanna's voice softened. "Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality i…" by Nicholas Sparks?

Nicholas Sparks photo

Nicholas Sparks646

American writer and novelist 1965

Related quotes

“That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

“Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.”

Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady

Charging Barack Obama with plagiarism at Texas presidential debate, February 21, 2008 http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1715473,00.html; see relevant quote above, two days earlier <br class="br">Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)

“Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change”

Jordan Sonnenblick (1969) American writer

Source: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

“You can't just wish change; you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality.”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 61

“You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.”

Karen Blixen (1885–1962) Danish writer

“You can't marry this Archibald. He's a gloomy, miserable cripple that hides himself away in that horrible house. You've said it yourself, you can't believe you love him and neither can I!”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Rose
The Secret Garden (1909)

“Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“You tried to love me I know you did,
you racked your brain trying,
to the point of lying,
but matters of the heart
can't be arranged,
and nothing I do can bring a change.”

Music lyrics, Candy-coated Pill (2022) —"Shot in the Dark"

“You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.”

Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies

Source: Lords and Ladies

“Do not think for one second that what you do is not important. Do not believe one second that individual can't change the course of human events, because individual can and does and will change the course of human events.”

Pamela Geller (1958) blogger, author, political activist, and commentator

"Pamela Geller speaks to the Sugar Land Tea Party in Sugar Land, Texas" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLzlQ7WrvfQ&t=0h28m21s, Sugar Land, Texas

Related topics