Quotes About Transition

We'll never be ready. So I guess that means we're as ready as we'll ever be.

Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.

Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.

His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory.

It comes with being sixteen, Mom said. You teenagers, you go into a cocoon when you turn fifteen and don't come out for years. So they become butterflies when they finally come out? my little sister Christina asked. No, Mom said. They're still caterpillars, only now they're big fat caterpillars that smell.

think of it this way, he said It took nine months to get you born, so doesn't it figure it would take nine months to get you dead?

Normally Connor would walk away from a conversation like this. His life is about tangibles: things you can see, hear and touch. God, souls, and all that has always been like a secret in a black box he couldn't see into, so it was easier just to leave it alone. Only now, he's inside the black box.

We want what you no longer want.

When, she wonders, did she stop being a child? The law says it was when she turned eighteen, but the law doesn't know her.

Why would anyone in their right mind want to be a teenager more than once? When

You don't undo thirteen years of brainwashing in two days.

Nothing stays wondrous forever. It's human nature to grow accustomed to that which becomes normal, even if it's a new shade of normal.

Who he was and who he will be are connected only by the fine, nearly invisible thread of who he is now.

But life doesn't end," the smiling proponents of unwinding all insist. "It just transforms. We like to call it 'living in a divided state.'

Life is like a bad haircut. At first it looks awful, then you kind of get used to it, and before you know it, it grows out and you gotta get another haircut that maybe won't be so bad... So life goes on, good haircut, bad haircut, until finally you go bald, and it don't matter no more.

when something drastic happens, there's a lag time. It's not quite denial, and not quite shock, but more like a mental free fall.

everything can—and will—change in an instant. People, truths, whole realities. The trick is deciding if a certain change is good, or bad, or some other thing we don't yet have words for.

Marie," she said, "it's finally happened." "What has, dear?" "I've stopped seeing myself as Citra Terranova," she said. "I've finally become Scythe Anastasia.

I have no doubt that, one way or another, you'll fill the empty spaces left behind.

He would have to adjust to a life without her, as well as a life without himself, for who was he now?

Scythe Curie seemed a mix of many emotions, but she folded them all away, like clothes that no longer fit, and closed the drawer.

You're on the other side of the glass even before you step outside.

People say it all started the day that newlywed couple died at the face of Exit Glacier, but they just say that because people like things to have a beginning and an end.

I thought you were someone else," she told him. "Someone named Gerald Van Der Gans. . . ." "My birth name," he told her. "A name I surrendered when I became Honorable Scythe Michael Faraday.