Quotes About Transition

That which cannot go on will not.

In order to move forward, you had to let the past go—and sometimes that meant mental shifts that happened on the inside…whereas with others, it was about things in the physical world.

And now that the Fade was upon him, he was resigned to his death.

Butch re-formed next to him and entered

Lowering his eyes, he said softly, "I have not seen the sun since before my transition. Can you blame me for staring.

Verily, time moved forward even if you wanted it to slow to a crawl.

Sometimes life brought you to corners that you saw coming, big changes altering your direction and focus thanks to a given event, like a mating or the birth of a young. Other times, though, the glacial shifts came without warning, popping out of nowhere. - Payton

She didn't belong on this side. She couldn't stand the idea of going back to the Sanctuary. She was like the summer air that stretched between the grassy green ground and the star-studded galaxy above. She was neither here nor there…and she was invisible.

DEDICATED TO YOU: I cannot believe you and I have come so far. Your book is not a goodbye, however-just another beginning. But you're used to that...

You put your life on hold for me. And really, I get that. I appreciate that. But I'm not a baby anymore. Let go, Mom.

Sometimes it's hard to end things even when you know it's the right thing to do.

Life kept you busy fighting off troubles, and you looked up, and the best parts of your life were gone.

I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.

There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.

It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies

It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now — girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.

The bus roared on. I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October.

Here I was at the end of America...no more land...and nowhere was nowhere to go but back

DEAR BABY, Isn't it good to know winter is coming—

Hell! I'm glad I did it. It's going to be a change. I call this life!

I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember especially because the transitions from life to death and back to life are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it.

I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future, and maybe that's why it happened right there and then, that strange red afternoon.

Cos'è quella sensazione che si prova quando ci si allontana in macchina dalle persone e le si vede recedere nella pianura fino a diventare macchioline e disperdersi? È il mondo troppo grande che ci sovrasta, è l'Addio. Ma intanto, ci si proietta in avanti verso una nuova, folle avventura sotto il cielo.

You can't live in this world but there's no where else to go.