“When I was seventeen, my life changed forever…”

“Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to what I knew. The one difference is that at seventeen I had no 'realism'.”

“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of those came as a terrible shock and, like anything else that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.”

“Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone's life forever.”

“There are places I remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain”

“The clouds, never expect it,
When it rains
But the sea changes color,
But the sea does not change,
, And so with the slow graceful
Flow of age, I went forth with an,
Age old desire to please,
On the edge of seventeen.”

“Cold Mountain Son
Forever not change
I live alone
Beyond life death”

“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.”

“your life can change in an instant. that instant can last forever.”

“I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.”