Quotes About Transition

sometimes in a blink, and sometimes so slowly you can't even see it happening.

I smiled at this because some days I feel as though I've already lived several lifetimes and others as though I haven't lived any kind of life at all, that I'm still waiting for it to start. Or waiting for it to start over.

The hospital at Ellis was the stationary middle place where what you were and what you would be were decided.

School gave me wings to leave rural Pennsylvania for Philadelphia, and my diploma gave me wings to Manhattan.

found out how fast things can change. You think you have a view of what's waiting for you just up the road, but then something happens, and you find out pretty quick you were looking at the wrong road.

The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.

We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.

But with Mama and Uncle Fred and Charlie, the world doesn't stop. It just keeps spinning, with all its troubles, yanking us into its wild revolutions. There is no stepping into mourning, all secluded with nothing but much-warranted sorrow for company. Instead it's as if the train we're all on switched tracks at full speed and now we are racing forward in a completely new direction with no time to think about the destination we'd been headed toward before and now will never see.

It wants to send us end over end so that what was up will be down.

It's as if there's a bridge they need to cross. And it's like crossing over the ocean, Brette.

You think you have a view of what's waiting for you just up the road, but then something happens, and you find out pretty quick you were looking at the wrong road.

Every door is a study in leaving.

parents dead. Can't backpack, can't do hip hop. Who am I, really? Now I get to find out.

Despite our best efforts, you came to the game at different times and as you know for different reasons. All the reasons go back to the fact that the game board has drastically changed. Know that it always does, though. War, drought, famine, illness, death, poverty. The game board changes underneath your feet. We did not want you to feel the pain of this.

When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.

When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable.

What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.

He hovered between what he didn't want anymore and what he wasn't very likely to have.

transition from pre-Internet to omnipresent-Internet, and who was successfully rigging the library to sail into the future not as a gigantic, groaning, fusty pile of books but as a sleek ship of information and imagination.

a library is as much a portal as it is a place—it is a transit point, a passage.

In truth, a library is as much a portal as it is a place--it is a transit point, a passage.

Libraries may embody our notion of permanence, but their patrons are always in flux. In truth, a library is as much a portal as it is a place—it is a transit point, a passage.

Because sometimes Lucky wanted to change everything, all the bad things that had happened, and sometimes she wanted everything to stay the same forever.

The first amber question to ask is this. Is now the right time to be seeking a committed relationship? There are many life situations, temporary transitions and extended periods where being single is essential.