Quotes About Transition

The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.

You lose one friend, you pick up another.

I picked Ember. After I started working with Mortin.' 'Why?' 'Because embers turn into flames.

Forget the midlife crisis," I say. "It's all about the sixth-life crisis.

Something deep in my guts, below my heart, has made a shift to the left and settled in a more comfortable place. It's not the Shift, but it's a shift. I picture Nia with her gorgeous face and little body and black hair and pouty lips and Aaron's hands all over her but also with her pot smoking and the pimples on her forehead and making fun of people all the time and the way she's always so proud of how she's dressed. And I picture her fading.

I'm waiting for her to say Craig, what you need to do is X and for the Shift to occur. I want there to be a Shift so bad.

The people are Anchors, I say. 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.

People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. The people here are going to change.

They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important— everybody knows that; the TV tells you so—but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another. All you have to do is talk to people, and this was back when I could talk to anybody.

People always come and go.

I'll fail. At school. Right. No, it's not exactly school. It's what comes after school. At life

I woke up one morning to discover I had lost my religous faith, as if it were a suitcase left behind in a distant airport.

She watches him walk outside, through the big doors and into the morning. A big man with a big walk. The world turning like a wheel beneath him.

In some ways, we are traveling in time now. We just happened to be prisoners of the present in the eternal transition from the past to the future.

No day before October 10, 1582, actually occurred on the Gregorian calendar for that was when the calendar was implemented officially.

No changes are permanent, but change is.

From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.

excitement is found along the road, not at the end, and likewise, peace is not a fixed point-except perhaps in the unwanted rest in peace sense. PEACE is the breathing space between destinations, between excitements, an occasional part of the journey, if you're lucky. PEACE is a space you move through very rarely, and very briefly-but your not allowed to stay there. you have to keep moving, and go do what you do. because you can...

What are borders, after all, but checkpoints letting you know that you've reached a new stage in your adventure? Well

My brain pupated into a butterfly." I

Something changed in me, as it did for many people, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It felt like the day I first beat my father at arm wrestling. In that moment, I realized that he could no longer protect me. I had to take care of myself.

Just as I was about to eject, Heidi marched in. "So," she asked my former target. "How do you know Style?" "We just met him," she said. "You looked like old friends," Heidi told her with an obsequious smile. Then she turned to me and whispered, "They're boring. Let's move on." As

Just because a pastor does well in one situation does not guarantee he or she will do well in another.

She turned off the water, and for a moment she was a newcomer again, alone in the house after George had gone to work.