Quotes About Transition

The force driving the Israelis decisively out of their socialist past into the modern world of finance was the ingenuity of Netanyahu.

Children leave," Ilemina told her. "It is the greatest tragedy of motherhood that if you have done everything right, if you have raised them in confidence and independence, they will pick up and leave you. It is as it's meant to be.

I learned that sometimes what you go looking for isn't as important as what you leave behind." My

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters

She was pretty sure that if you died in the South, you'd have a layover in Atlanta before you reached the afterlife. But

What was wrong with my life and how did I get to this place?

Eventually Victoria will die. She's old. And that didn't sound morbid. Not at all.

I was mourning the old me. For the new me to emerge, the old me had to disappear, and killing her bit by bit hurt.

It doesn't matter what you were. It matters what you are now.

It is not time that passes, but the existence of what is changable that passes in time.

Mi chiesero dove volessi andare. Mandatemi in un posto dove non ci sono italiani risposi per esempio perché non mi mandate a Davos? Mi risposero ma a Davos ci sono i tubercolotici... E io meglio la tbc degli italiani. E in quei momenti capii che si, era giusto che il fascismo fosse andato in malora, ma anche che quello che lo avrebbe sostituito non sarebbe stato migliore.

If this was how the young made themselves independent from their parents, then she only wished the process over. Watching her daughter pull away from her day by day hurt too much.

For there comes a time in life when the pity previously reserved only for children takes on a different form, a time when we study the faces of 'old people' and sense that one day we will be just like them. And that is the moment when early childhood comes to an end.

They slept so soundly, though, nothing would wake them before daybreak. That was obvious. They could pass from sleep to death without even realising it.

Giunge un'età, infatti, in cui la pietà che avevamo per i bambini prende un'altra forma, un'età in cui contempliamo i volti rugosi dei vecchi e intuiamo che un giorno saremo come loro... È allora che finisce la prima infanzia.

Silently, with no lights on, cars kept coming, one after the other, full to bursting with baggage and furniture, prams and birdcages, packing cases and baskets of clothes, each with a mattress tied firmly to the roof.

Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.

I feel I'm at the end of something — everything is going to be different — and terrible. That doesn't sound like you, you ride every wave. There is one that will drown me.

Things, things, they outlive us and go to scenes that we know nothing of.

And I was upset to find how really reluctant I was to leave my little flat. It was as if I was almost frightened. Spasms of prophetic homesickness pierced me as I rearranged the china and dusted it with my handkerchief, obsessive visions of burglaries and desecrations.

We shall meet, but as strangers. It is the end of an era. A whole part of my life is torn away.

This figure, which I had so vaguely, idly, noticed before was now utterly changed in my eyes. The whole world was its background. And between me and it there hovered, perhaps for the last time, the vision of a slim long-legged girl with gleaming thighs. I ran.

The whole extraordinary business was over. And I was back where I belonged, where my childhood had condemned me to be, alone, out in the cold without a coat.

I must proceed to my next mystery and for the moment forget this one completely.