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Quotes About Transition

Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are.
~ Tim O'Brien
A place where your life exists before you live it, and where it goes afterwards.
~ Tim O'Brien
My whole life seemed to spill out into the river, swirling away from me, everything I had ever been or ever wanted to be.
~ Tim O'Brien
He'd been coiled like a snake for years and the tension had gone slack and when he was ready to spring the spring wasn't there, but it could be recoiled.
~ Tim O'Brien
Stories are for joining the past to the future.
~ Tim O'Brien
Shakeouts typically mark the point at which an ascendant technology is ready to take its place at center stage. The pretenders are given the bum's
~ Tim O'Reilly
There's a sad feeling in a place people have just walked out of and left behind.
~ Tim Winton
I meant to slip away, he said, busking it now.
~ Tim Winton
Liam Rector's "Song Years": "Change is hard and hope is violent".
~ Tim Winton
La nuit tombe, le jour se lève. Toujours.
~ Timothy Findley
As for the present-day Festivals they were endless--blurred--going on forever so that no one knew where one had ended in the next begun.
~ Timothy Findley
Not every change is a step forward.
~ Timothy Zahn
One whose path has taken a new turn is often initially disoriented.
~ Timothy Zahn
One whose path has taken a new turn is often initially disoriented. But as time passes, and the path continues steadily in its new direction, there is a tendency to believe that it will remain so forever, with no further turns.
~ Timothy Zahn
Vurawn was no more. In his place now stood Thrawn.
~ Timothy Zahn
One whose path has taken a new turn is often initially disoriented. But as time passes, and the path continues steadily in its new direction, there is a tendency to believe that it will remain so forever, with no further turns. Nothing is further from the truth. A path once bent is always susceptible to new changes.
~ Timothy Zahn
My innocence is a dying flower
~ Tite Kubo
Taking on the afterlife one soul at a time.
~ Tite Kubo
He's…grown." "Yeah…I guess we didn't notice… "It was inevitable." "A young man's growth is always…so bright it makes old people want to look away.
~ Tite Kubo
I just keep practicing saying goodbye to you
~ Tite Kubo
That room - once you enter it, you never really leave. You can forget you're there, you can go on as if you hold the reins, that the course of your life, yeah even its length, will reflect the force of your character and the wisdom of your judgments. And then you hit an icy path on a turn one sunny March day and the wheel in your hands becomes a joke and you no more than a spectator to your own dreamy slide toward the verge, and then you remember where you are.
~ Tobias Wolff
Getting from La Jolla to Alta Vista State Hospital isn't easy, unless you have a car or a breakdown. April's Father had a breakdown and they got him there in no time.
~ Tobias Wolff
The truth was that when you got married you had to give up one thing after another. It never ended. You had to give up your life—the special one that you were meant to have—and lead some middle kind of life that went where neither of you had ever thought of going, or wanted to go. And you never knew what was happening. You gave up your life and didn't even know it.
~ Tobias Wolff
Any return to the past, to traditional values, will necessarily be mediated by the present.
~ Todd McGowan