Quotes About Transition

Well, like, the screenplay is about the book, so, like, it's kind of the book, only in different form, like the way iced coffee is still coffee even though it's cold.

In the end, if we could ever really pursue the question 'why' to its true headwaters, we might find it is often no more than this: a beginning so trifling that it hardly bears notice. The flip of a switch. The flash of a neurotransmission. Maybe there was always something amiss, like a bulb planted and forgotten that blooms when the season is right. ...A thousand girls could have gotten through my seventh grade and breezed on with a laugh; I didn't.

time I wanted to explain the perils of growing

and there is no simple reason why this happens, no single moment, no physiological event that pushes a heavy drinker across a concrete line into alcoholism. It's a slow, gradual, insidious, elusive becoming.

When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

Just as I choose a ship when I am about to go on a voyage,' said Jonathan, 'so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from this life.

Nothing stayed the same. That was scientific fact. He wouldn't do anything to push things in a new direction, but he knew that one way or another, life eventually would.

Eskiden unlu maddeler pahal? idi. Åžimdi de pirinç ve fasulye onlar? gölgede b?rakt?.Yeni zenginler gibi asillerin taraf?na geçtiler. Demek siz de, fasulye ve pirinç, bizi terkettiniz?

This life is not the same as your other life.

The worst is over, the worst is yet to come

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

To continue what one had been doing -- which was Dante's idea of hell -- is, I came to see, and the vision frightened me, easy in one's sixties.

Forest Gump had it wrong. Life is not a box of chocolate; it's a kaleidoscope. In the flip of a wrist, realities are shredded and the world takes on a totally new shape.

Sometimes, you just have to walk away and never look back.

The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.

He had no idea there even was a before until he crashed hard into the after.

Sometimes we make decisions about our life and they feel like the right decision at the time. No, they are the right decision at the time. But that doesn't mean they'll be the right decision forever.

What had happened to our love? Somehow it had faded, or worn out, or simply withered away.

They're too young to understand how much of life is shaped by never the same.

Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.

I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.

Letting ourselves be where we are leads us someplace new. Keeping ourselves locked where we wish we were, leads to stagnation.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

How horribly easy it is, he thinks now, breathing hard, watching the light retreat down the lane, to go from good to bad, from the dream to the memory, from what we want to all we've ever had.