Quotes About Transition

Welcome to purgatory. Care for some soup?

She was all dark-eyed intensity. Something was lost in her. Karou saw it and mourned. War does that, nothing for it. Reality lays siege. Your framed portrait of life is smashed, and a new one thrust upon you. Its ugly, and you don't even want to look at it , let alone hang it on the wall, but you have no choice.

Existe el pasado, y también el futuro. El presente no es más que el único segundo que divide la una a la otra...

and it was not of this world, and he was not who he had been.

Akiva lived, and was changed.

To be so tired was like evaporating. Water to vapor. Flesh to ghost. Bit by bit, from the surface inward, you feel yourself begin to disappear, or at least to be translated into another state--from a tangible one, blood and spirit, to a kind of lost and drifting mist.

Death is not the end it sometimes seems.

A different sort of life, she thought, and the words became a mantra to the melody of the Emberlin. A different sort of life, a different sort of life. Where

She wanted to see the moment his expression changed.

You can't ever know when the dead world will come to you. Only that it will.

There is always part of us admits we are done when the rest of us is not yet ready.

it is the present that rules, and the present always changes, often so fast it can hardly be experienced.

Stop growing and you're in the casket.

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

I tell you, it's a brand-new world, it's as radical as having an infant. And I'm as clueless. And it turns out there are no operating instructions and no owner's manual that come with a teenager either.

For each of us, he understood, is born into our own time and eventually the things we held as the center of our world, dearly, unforgivingly, must fade.

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

I warmed both hands before the fire of Life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.

Final Curve When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left

Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered-- that is when we feel the greatest pain. I can tell you, though, from experience, you grow accustomed to it. You learn to live your new life, and you can't imagine, or even really remember, how things were before.

But Magnus, he thought. You never told me. Never warned me it would be like this, that I would wake up one day and realize that I was going somewhere you couldn't follow. That we are essentially not the same. There's no "till death do us apart" for those who never die.

Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.