Quotes About Transition

A long flight. Jetlag. Immigration. Customs. And then finally, that first step into a new place, that moment of exhilaration and disorientation, each feeding the other. That moment when anything can happen

Ever hear the one about that dog that spent its life chasing cars and finally caught one—and had no idea what to do with it? I'm that dog.

Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that said because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other vacations, other good times.

Isn't amazing how life is one thing and then becomes something else?

So this would like your farewell tour?" Of New York? Of Me?

creo que estoy empezando a entender el concepto de terminar. No es un gran dramático antes y después. Es más como una melancólica sensación de que estás llegando al fin de unas vacaciones realmente buenas. Algo especial está terminando, y estás triste, pero no puede estar triste porque, oye, fue bueno mientras duró, y habrá otras vacaciones, otros buenos momentos.

Do you do that a lot? Move on?" "Maybe. But only because I travel a lot." She taps put a beat on the steering wheel, audible only to herseld. "Or maybe you travel a lot because it lets you move on." "Perhaps." ........ I look out the window. The jungle is everywhere. I look back at her. "Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?

Denial, anger, acceptance

So are you moving on now? Is that what brought you to the grand metropolis of Valladolid?" "No. The wind just blew me here." "What? Like a plastic bag?" "I prefer to think of myself as a ship. Like a sailboat.

I've been feeling something else. Like I'm about to be sucked into something powerful and painful.

Maybe this is the point of it all. Maybe this is where the road is meant to end.

A veces el viento te lleva a lugares que no estabas esperando; algunas veces te lleva lejos de esos lugares, también.

That's all we can do, Brit. Take steps. Take enough of them and suddenly, you're somewhere.

Saying goodbye is less fraught this time. They have done it now once, like normal people: leave, come back. It builds confidence.

I didn't believe it was happening. But it was. Just being here, being away, it was all so much easier in a way I didn't anticipate. In a way I didn't think my life could be anymore. It was a huge relief.

She was in a free fall now. And it wasn't killing her. In fact, she was beginning to wonder if she might've had it backwards. All that fixating on the fall...maybe she should've been paying more attention to the free.

about never knowing your life is changing until it's already happened

kind of couple to talk about the future, about where our relationship was going, but with things suddenly

Quitting's not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.

I've never toughened up enough to handle what I'd have to handle if I were to stay.

because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly

They evolved into birds.

And her voice, it's exactly the same. I don't know why I'd expect it to be different except that everything's different now.

You know that saying about a frog in a pot? How you can put a frog in boiling water and it'll jump straight out, but if you put a frog in tepid water and slowly increase the heat, it'll adjust and adjust until it dies?