Quotes About Transition

We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.

there may come a time when you must go on, be strong without a friend until you can make new ones, stand on your own.

Winston would now have to work with the new president, a man named Harry Truman whom we had met briefly

It was amazing to see the actual moment when Denny the boy became Denny the man. I admit that I had a case of Jew envy. It's possible I always will.

If you know something will eventually come to an end, you can handle it.

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves.

You're leaving me, Rainbow Girl.

Keep hoping to see the light in her eyes. Even knowing it'll mean she's saying good-bye.

All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and second and third cousins, knot-tied with grandmas and grandpas and greats. That blanket had just dropped from my shoulders. I felt cold, lost and alone.

Nightfall. "What a strange word. 'Night' I get. But 'fall' is a gentle word. Autumn leaves fall, swirling with languid grace To carpet the earth with their dying blaze. Tears fall, like liquid diamonds Shimmering softly, before they melt away. Night doesn't fall here. It comes slamming down.

Yesterday is skin on snake, to be shed many times.

There's no point in fighting the tide. It ebbs. It flows. You ride it.

Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.

She's thirteen. Time will remedy that.

Liminal sucks. You can't grasp it with your hands and shape it. You can't make midnight come faster, or grow up sooner, or avoid the in-betweens. You can only hang in there, and get through them.

In order to make something, Ms. Lane, you must first unmake what is in the process. Should you begin with nothing, even nothing is unmade when it is replaced with something.

His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man.

All I can think is: His head is gone and I don't know how to merge with the Book.

one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is." (Page 106)

All good coups begin with the deposing of the current leader.

Criminally young, he charged, and I can't argue. But I can change.

One must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.