Quotes About Transition

Leandro's thesis was that after a particular point in a man's life, his future is invariably in his past.

A couple of days without a dictator, and you Spaniards have already become bisexual.

El cielo se apagaba sobre la ciudad con nubes en tránsito.

People only disappear when they have somewhere to go.

Aquella noche, con los ojos velados de lágrimas, se despidió de los años que había pasado en aquel cuarto oscuro y frío, perdido en sueños que ahora sabía que nunca llegarían a cumplirse.

As a child she'd remember everything. Everything. Then children grow up, and you no longer know what they think or what they feel. And that's how it should be, I suppose.

Se acabó lo de gratis, Fernandito. Bienvenido al capitalismo. —¿No dicen que eso es malísimo? —Peor. Y te va a encantar. —¿Cuándo empiezo? —Ahora mismo.

Going over all this in my mind, it occurred to me that perhaps the papier-mâché world that I accepted as real was only a stage setting. Much like the arrival of Spanish trains, in those stolen years you never knew when the end of childhood was due.

When she died, I went to live with my uncle Gustavo

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice it.

As a child she'd remember everything. Everything. Then children grow up, and you no longer know what they think or what they feel. And that's how it should be, I suppose.

Az egyik szerelem - még ha beteljesületlen is - elvezet a másikhoz.

The sight of bursting puberty is the best antidote to nostalgia, thought Alicia.

The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours…" "…except your dreams.

La mayoría de nosotros tenemos la dicha o la desgracia de ver cómo la vida se desmorona poco a poco, sin que nos demos casi cuenta.

Tenía diecisiete años y la vida en los labios»

El día menso pensado cumpliré treinta años y me daré cuenta de que cada día me parezco menos a la persona que quería ser cuando tenía quince.

He swung himself onto

No matter where There is, when you arrive it becomes Here.

Most of us made a rather extensive study of heterosexuality before leaving it behind. -Pat Califia

He was discomfited to see how easily men (and women as well) stepped from the train to station platform, from platform to train – with ease, with levity, laughing and talking and greeting each other as though oblivious to the abrupt geographical shifts they were making, and disrespectful of the distance and differences they entered. Many were hatless, their clothes brightly colored. The cases they carried appeared, from the way they handled them, to be feather-light.

It was as though she had veered, accidentally, into her own life.

From surfeit to loss is a short line.

He felt enormously tired, as if he were an autumn leaf and his season were over. He felt ready to fall from the branch.