Quotes About Transition

In Vangery, Dannel had been a great matriarch of one of the most influential families on the marsh. Now she felt like a coddled grandmother, even though she was not that old nor had grand-children.

Here, among the broken stones, I am sure the climax of my life is about to unfold.

Funny how the camera had so quickly lost all its depressing associations. Ari looked on this as a good omen.

Before he entered its shadow, Ays glanced back at the cavern he was leaving. He moured the loss of light, but braced himself for another more difficult stage of the journey.

The ceiling sloped downwards gradually as if teasing him. He kept taking long, measured lungsful of air, sure that every one would be his last, only to find there was time to take another. Then the stone kissed the water, and he had no chance but to descend, feeling blindly with his hands, kicking with his feet.

He felt different now, as if a new personality had come to inhabit his body.

You are different, Daniel, but then this is a changed world to the one where we once walked as friends.

New cities are born, so old ones must die. That seems logical to me.

she noticed that the moon, so clear in the sky, had lost her first slice; the dark was on its way.

There are many people who will stay in negative situation because it is familiar, rather than go where there is promise of something good, because that would be something unfamiliar

I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.

It's—it's all right, Peter. I half-saw this coming. Mrs. Cardoman's boy just came out, and he's so much happier now. He's even talking about marrying his—partner, I guess you call it.

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.

I'm being uprooted," Dino said. "You're being transplanted," Viv replied, "and to a better home.

Who knows Bob's name in this outfit—let alone his lame child's? ("The last place I worked for, I was let go," recalls the bank teller. "One of my friends stopped by and asked where I was at. They said, 'She's no longer with us.' That's all. I vanished.") It's nothing personal, really. Dickens's people have been replaced by Beckett's.

As the writer and scientist Isaac Asimov put it: 'Life is pleasant, death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

Somewhere in the unfolding story, something is going to happen that will change everything that happens after it.

What you're thinking of as the end of the story now, is only the end of the chapter.

There was an end, and it colors everything, even the beginning.

This is how it happens," he said again, quietly and near tears. "They go, one by one, and before you know it, the room is empty.

Things happen and you change directions

O porque cumplí treinta y seis años a principios de agosto: sería de lo más oportuno. Treintaiseiscitis.