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21 " One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self-conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subject to the laws of nature and under orders to keep on marching, through irreversible time, through a world wholly indifferent to our well-being, toward decrepitude and the certainty of death. The remaining two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary. "
― Aldous Huxley , Island
22 " I hoped my solitude would help me reclaim my innocence, remember who I’d been, to find who I wanted to be. To become her. To love her, Deborah, Debby, Doll Girl, Wild Child, me, despite the irreversible truth that I’d been raped. I was learning again that I could trust myself and, also, I was seeing, other people. I was brave enough now to go out alone towards what I wanted, to trust that I was strong enough for it, to know that help would come when I needed it. It always came. "
― Aspen Matis , Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
23 " I had no evidence. No physical signs of my rape existed anymore. My body had already purged them. That was the irreversible reality. "
24 " Time is life. It is irreversible and irreplaceable. To waste your time is to waste your life, but to master your time is to master your life and make the most of it. "
25 " Despite his care, Reid was still playing with fire, the kind that could without warning sheathe one’s whole life in irreversible conflagration. "
― Paul Russell , The Coming Storm
26 " Salty tears stream down my face—coating my lips as I mutter senseless apologies for so many things. So many irreversible things.Morpheus peels the vines off and lifts me, cradling me to his chest. "
― A.G. Howard , Ensnared (Splintered, #3)
27 " Please consult your child’s Witch doctor before using this product. Diapers may cause severe allergies, internal bleeding, and irreversible sex change. "
― Kenya Wright , Fire Baptized (Santeria Habitat, #1)
28 " Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past. "
29 " What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again. "
30 " I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change. "
