Quotes About Transition

How could life change so much so quickly?

The boundary was a shivery place where realities crossed and strained to overtake each other.

How can you believe it's over? If anything, it's only just beginning. For both of us.

Change, it is the wine of life.

The world seemed to change before my eyes. All the huts looked empty and sad, the dampness stung like acid. I think I knew then, in that brief instant, that my destiny had been set. Already the land around me had acknowledged my farewell.

Life had been thrust onto him brutally and without warming; the needed time to digest its newness.

Here, my story began. Now I feel as if another story's just beginning.

I want to make a difference, Shan thought, but not yet. I'm not ready.

This was a station, a limbo-no storehouse, but a refuse heap.

The moment of his fall was for closer to the present moment than millenia before.

In her heart, she felt she was caught in the lull between tides. The waves had crashed over her on their journey to the land, but they had not yet receded. The ebbing tide had slithered past her on the dragon rock, silently, without waking her. In this way, her soul was still surrounded by water. She was stranded on the island, with no safe passage to shore.

He's beautiful," she said, an inadequate response in comparison to the strange lurch she felt in her belly. The eyes of the portrait seemed to stare right into her: "He looks sad." "That was painted just before he went to Magrast for the first time. He wasn't happy about leaving home.

I have hung on with all my strength, but I feel it leaving me. I must give it to you.

The world will not end after this, but change.

Was this death, this unending plunge? Was there nothing more to it than this?

Today, I would step off the narrow, twisty path of childhood, with all its secret haunts, and put one foot on the wide road of womanhood.

You are nearly a woman, and a wondrous woman at that!

The next journey, the next story, he thought.

To rid the world of one empire merely made room for another.

What happened to me is not uncommon here.

There are many forms of death and not all are final.

They had grown apart, perhaps, or it might be that Pharinet had always been different, only too young to realize it.

Where had the delicate silent child gone, who'd been more like a mute mermaid stranded on land than a human being? What he saw now was a determined young woman who despite the passion of her words spoke clearly and firmly.

You have begun a change, a leap forward in your evolution. It will take a while to complete, but it has begun.