Quotes About Transition

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night. —Kahlil Gibran

A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

Grief is healing, so grieve. But regret is poison. No looking back.

such a commotion. Having reached the age of twenty and two

He didn't know how to change her.

Every year, in the third week of February, there is a day, or more usually a run of days, when one can say for sure that the light is back. Some juncture has been reached and the light spills into the world from a sun suddenly higher in the sky...

In September countless sand and house-martins jazz above the river, taking insects from the surface, from the air, thousands of birds kissing the river farewell. They creak, a sound like the air rubbing against itself. Summer is everything they know; they're preparing themselves, sensing in the shortening days a door they must dash through before it shuts.

Remember the end of the road is also its beginning.

temporal shift, Rae remained

The more I let go of the life I'd

The image is dead! Long live the sensation.

She is emerging (she has no choice) / into a place / like sex or childbirth, / one thing to the observer, something very different to the participant.

If you love something, know that it will leave on a day you are far from ready.

Like many parents in middle age, he's quick to spot changes in the world, slow to note shifts in his own perspective.

It's amazing how lonely a place where you were once happy can become.

The world had edges but you couldn't see them going, only when you were trying to come back.

When you are in the light, don't step back into the darkness. When you are in the darkness, know that the light will come.

There must be many of us whose lives have been divided into a before and after, with an accident, a death, a crime, a crisis, some moment or year or relationship that came between and changed everything. I want to see how your life moved forward from that point of division.

but the sudden stark reality that things were never going to be the same again.

given a new name, chosen by the nuns, a more

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. —Rumi (Jalal ad-Din)

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few. —Bill Watterson cartoonist

need you to go to Catasaga, Nick. Indefinitely.