Quotes About Transition

Neither of them had ever had much interest in breaking each other's heart. In theory they both knew she had to move on, though all he wanted right now was to wait, even just another day. But he knew that feeling, and he guessed it would pass.

It was the end of something—if not his innocence, at least of his faith that things would always happen gradually enough to afford time to do something about it in.

Latitudes and Departures

receding in an asymmetric V to the east where it's dark and there are no more bars.

His life had been tied to the past. He'd seen himself a point on a moving wavefront, propagating through sterile history—a known past, a projectable future. But Jessica was the breaking of the wave. Suddenly there was a beach, the unpredictable . . . new life.

Quello del saltimbanco è un mestiere in via di estinzione era solito ammettere nei suoi momenti di frivolezza. I migliori sono passati tutti alla politica.

el otro lado and an earlier day, in the years between grown

She gazed backward at iron convergences and receding signal-lamps. Outward and visible metaphor, she thought, for the complete ensemble of free choices that define the course of a human life. A new switching point every few seconds, sometimes seen, sometimes traveled over invisibly and irrevocably. From on board the train one can stand and look back, and watch it all flowing away, shining, as if always meant to be.

He sees her standing at the end of a passage in her life, without any next step to take—all her bets are in, she has only the tedium now of being knocked from one room to the next, a sequence of numbered rooms whose numbers do not matter, till inertia brings her to the last. That's all.

This [Ulysses] is obviously the wave of the future, I'm glad I'm dying of tuberculosis.

And I feel as I always do that Autumn is loveliest of all. There is such a sharpness with the sweetness—

Bir ÅŸey elden gittiyse gitti demektir. Sona ermiÅŸ, bitmiÅŸtir. O zaman b?rak?n gitsin! Görmezden gelin onu, eÄŸer avunmaya ihtiyac?n?z varsa, yitirilen ÅŸeylerin asla geri gelmediÄŸini düÅŸünerek avutun kendinizi: Gelse bile yeni bir ÅŸeydir art?k, her seferinde yeni, baÅŸka bir ÅŸeydir. Elinizden ç?kt??? anda deÄŸiÅŸime uÄŸram??t?r.

She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.

A free fall from joy to.. Truth.

the one thing we do know for sure is that the relationship you once shared—the one that was clearly not working for one or both of you—has to die.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else. RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. KAHLIL GIBRAN

And then one day the sadness was gone. In its place was a sense of peace and stillness. I still wasn't thrilled to be single and alone, but ultimately, I was OK with it because I was OK with me. Today

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. C. S. LEWIS

Effective grieving, however, turns the love you've been giving another toward yourself.

The end of love is a crossroads, and there will be those who go on to live lesser lives in the aftermath of heartbreak. My hope is that you are not one of them.

you must become more interested in what's possible from here on than you are in rectifying the past, and more invested in how you might midwife this transition harmoniously than in getting what you want in the short term.

Katherine Woodward Thomas

leaving each other, and all those impacted by our separation, whole, healthy, and complete rather than wounded, walled off, and significantly broken by the experience.