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Quotes About Transition

When the gangplanks are drawn in from the stone edge of the Bund, they are cut off from a whole world that they'll never see again, a world where they were kings. Now they are Marines again.
~ Neal Stephenson
I was wondering when I was going to end up like this.
~ Neal Stephenson
But the rest of our lives will happen in the future, Randy, so we might as well get with the program now.
~ Neal Stephenson
The color of the land fades gradually from dark jungle green to pale green and then a sere reddish-brown as the tail extends from the fat center of the island out to the end, and the soil becomes dryer.
~ Neal Stephenson
You could get used to anything. You got used to it and then time raced by, and before you knew it, time was up
~ Neal Stephenson
Randy has that moving-through-syrup feeling he gets when enacting some emotionally huge transition in his life.
~ Neal Stephenson
I am Death," she said. "Now, which one of us is going to open the gate?
~ Neal Stephenson
They push through a fire door into another section of the U-Stor-It, which looks the same as the last one (everything looks the same in America, there are no transitions
~ Neal Stephenson
period of geological cunnilingus.
~ Neal Stephenson
Sometimes there was no gap between joke and real.
~ Neal Stephenson
Anyway, she was now the sort of girl who shot people. Useful to know.
~ Neal Stephenson
But in the bleak light of full adulthood, which is to one's early twenties as Sunday morning is to Saturday night, he can clearly see what it really amounts to: He's broke and unemployed.
~ Neal Stephenson
But in the bleak light of full adulthood, which is to one's early twenties as Sunday morning is to Saturday night, he can clearly see what it really amounts to: he's broke and unemployed.
~ Neal Stephenson
one (everything looks the same in America, there are no transitions now).
~ Neal Stephenson
everything looks the same in America, there are no transitions now).
~ Neal Stephenson
They had emerged, abruptly and conclusively, from Glenwood Canyon and come out into a more open valley containing the crossroads town of Glenwood Springs. From here a highway doubled back east toward the elite paradise of Aspen. Travelers who, like them, chose to continue west toward Utah were confronted by an animated mushroom cloud rising from the interstate's median.
~ Neal Stephenson
Death is never an end, but always a beginning. A death is a door opening, not a door closing.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
The second thing to know is that all conditions are temporary. Nothing stays the same, nothing remains static. Which way a thing changes depends on you.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Vanligvis når livet ser ut til å falle fra hverandre, faller det egentlig på plass.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
~ Ned Vizzini
It's a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn't want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do.
~ Ned Vizzini
Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers.
~ Ned Vizzini
People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change.
~ Ned Vizzini
People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. The people here are going to change. The patients are going to leave. You can't rely on them.
~ Ned Vizzini