Quotes About Transition

I'm going to miss all the takeout," Jason said later, after dinner, when I walked him out to his car. "Coach said his wife cooks their meals every night." "That's really why you're leaving, isn't it?" I asked. "For real home-cooked meals?

I'm Josh Wynter, by the way." "And do you become Josh Summer in June?" I asked.

So read my lips. He is not on my radar anymore." "Think I'd rather kiss those lips." And he did just that.

I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that's beckoning to you.

The answer is not coming. I have to find an arbitrary point inside the spell of waiting, the open absence, and tear myself away. Leave, with no answer. Move on to the next question.

It's hard to live on the streets. In prison, you can be someone. Life has order if you know how to do time, and I know. I'm an expert. Living in a tent is a temporary thing. You do it until you go back to prison. That's just how it works.

What happens slowly carries in each part the possibility of returning to what came before. In an accident everything is simultaneous, sudden, irreversible. It means this: no going back.

God was ejected when we traveled from the closed world to the infinite universe. We were also ejected.

it is easier to like difficult people when they are leaving, or already gone.

They toasted Gordon's departure. "To my rustication," Gordon said. "Isn't that when they boot you from Oxford?" "They just send you down to the country for a while.

Most unexpected was the sadness that followed on the heels of pleasure, like smoke from an extinguished candle.

and it is easier to like difficult people when they are leaving, or already gone.

Women have always been present at these times, at death and birth and in many of the other transitions in life. Women have gathered at the transitions, as comforters and companions, as witnesses, to mark the importance of the moment.

Wasn't the leap from the farm or the small town to the college campus enough cultural dislocation? Wasn't college education itself enough of a voyage?

The thing I knew I needed to let go of most was anger. I would have to take on faith that something else would come in its place.

Is it always this miserable saying goodbye?

A laugh-out-loud moment before she would send them to the underworld; or it would have been if she could still laugh. She's tried to remember how but she honestly couldn't make the sound anymore, another strange side effect.

she had wondered which was worse: the sudden good-bye you know is a good-bye or the long good-bye you have to guess.

Yes, we can all cart our fractured selves along as we move through our lives. But we can choose whether we keep plodding along the same rutted road, or take a turn we'd never thought was ours to take.

Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right?

You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

she was like some curious, primitive thing conceived in a turbulent age of transition.

Because we separate like ripples on a blank shore (in rainbows).