Quotes About Transition

And when he had crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him.

For life be, after all, only a waiting for something else than what we're doing, and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

I promise. and as I said it I felt that from that instant a door had been shut between us.

Friend John, it does rejoice me unspeakable that she is no more to be pained, no more to be worried with our terrible things. Though we shall much miss her help, it is better so.

They say that people who are near death die generally at the change to dawn or at the turn of the tide.

I rained every time I moved.

I do not intend to go, in the space of one hour, from the helplessness of enchantment to another sort of helplessness!

This is what I call a Distributary World – it was created by ideas flowing out of another world. This world could not have existed unless that other world had existed first.

The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore.

And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

Al bajar a tierra me di cuenta de que la mochila que llevaba sobre mis espaldas pesaba tanto como el siglo que estaba a punto de terminar, que había llegado el momento de detenerme y de mirar lo que contenía, sacar una a una todas las piedras y darles finalmente un nombre, catalogarlas y después decidir si era el caso de llevarlas conmigo o, en cambio, de abandonarlas.

También la larva conoce la dignidad de la transformación, de sus blandos tejidos puede salir el inesperado esplendor de una mariposa.

Apa yang kita sebut akhir, seringkali hanya sejenis metamorfosis

Existe algo más terrible que un retorno que no logra llevarse a cabo?

Already things are changing; it´s starting with small shit but oh it´s starting, the change, the irrevocable, impossible change.

It´s like watching someone do a triple backflip dismount and land on two feet, solid, arms splayed in the air. I know I could never do it, don´t even know where I would begin to learn, but some people are built for it. He was handcrafted to leave, had practiced on other women since adolescence. I was one of an unnumbered series.

Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid.

Take me now, God! I shout to the inky sky. I´m ready. You´re not ready. You´re not even divorced yet, Bunny says. You cannot die married to that man.

I fear the day when the technos decide that paper books are obsolete and we are reading from PC screens and iPods and eBooks, and we never again experience the little rush of opening a new book and cracking the spine and smelling the print and diving deep into the thoughts of the writer.

When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No fanfare, no metaphor, no brilliant final words. The culmination of the most influential piece of dramatic literature is, 'He dies.' Now I am not asking you to be happy at my leaving but all I ask you to do is to turn the page and let the next story begin. -- Mr. Magorium

Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin...

You're going to say goodbye, go and get your closure. In a hundred years when you're just a haze on the water.

Love is not changed by death," read the quote by British poet Edith Sitwell, "and nothing is lost, and in the end, all is harvest.

Preserved pufferfish. Former flounders. Ex-eels.