Quotes About Transition

Counting life's moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down.

You've been waiting here all this time? Eddie whispered. Time, the Captain said, is not what you think. He sat down next to Eddie. Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

Holding on things will only break your heart

That death doesn't just take someone, it mosses someone else, and in that small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.

When you come to the end, that's where God begins."   Many

wonder if this is what dying is like, Annabelle. At first, you are so tightly connected to the world you cannot imagine letting go. In time, you surrender to a drifting phase. What comes next, I cannot say. Some would say that you meet the Lord.

Your voice will come. We all go through the same thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive." He smiled. "It helps you listen

But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "continuing without.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time . . .

I'd had books published in foreign languages. I'd had many addresses over the years. But you can touch everything and be connected to nothing.

No matter how confused, how tired, or how sad, every night has its morning.

The days get longer and the nights smell green I guess it's not surprising but it's spring and I should leave.

Somewhere between dust and the stars

but that is the way of things, for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.

For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.

and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it. We are all migrants through time.

for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.

he had begun by feeling that under the surface, it was still him, who else could it be, but it was not that simple, and the way people act around you, a change is what you are, who you are, and Oona said she understood, but it was like learning, a foreign language, and when you tried to speak a foreign language, you lost your sense of humor, no matter how much you tried, you could not be funny the way you used to be…

Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two boys realize they'd die for one another, that each cares more for the other than he does for himself, and it lasts usually until a second love comes on the scene, because most hearts aren't big enough to love more than one person like that.

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain

Although it is traditionally associated with the end of summer and the impending arrival of autumn, September has always seemed to me a month of beginnings, a spring of sorts—possibly because it marks the commencement of the academic year.

Every time a couple moves they begin, if their attention is still drawn to one another, to see each other differently, for personalities are not a single immutable color, like white or blue, but rather illuminated screens, and the shades we reflect depend much on what is around us. So it was with Saeed and Nadia, who found themselves changed in each other's eyes in this new place.

but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying

The arc of a child's life only appears for a while to match the arc of a parent's, in reality one sits atop the other, a hill atop a hill, a curve atop a curve. His arc now needed to curve lower while his son's still curved higher.