Quotes About Transition

Oona and Daphne had to figure out a way to adapt to the adult world, and not the other way around. This is an integral concept in French parenting.

When life goes on doesn't it just trample over what was there before?

I believe that knowing when to leave one's employer is a critical success factor in building a career, assuming that the logic behind one's decision makes some sense.

against the houses, and turned the streets

All I needed was a little time. A time to get used to the creature who had broken from the chrysalis; the wings yet were feeble and uncertain.

What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?

So it was that my life passed from the joyous realm of heaven to the choking and inescapable tortures of hell.

Today exists between yesterday and tomorrow.

someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously, and change the subject.

The adventurous part of me was looking forward to getting out into the world, meeting new people, trying new things. But another part of me was thinking that it was just too soon. Why couldn't everything stay the same for a little while longer?

Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain - your life will never be the same.

the sound of tramping feet beat out a requiem for the old world - but no one could be sure where it might lead

I can no longer pretend that I believe in God. It's highly possible that I lost this belief when I started having sexual relationships.

We don't think of this as a place where people come to die," the gravely cheerful intake counselor had said to us. "We think of it as a place where people come to live!" "To live dyingly,

We were trying to understand, then, what her life was about to become. I think we're still trying to understand.

Inside the hospice, Belle glows like a shiny ambassador from the land of youth. It feels almost indecent to bring her.

But whatever this is—this window of clarity—it's ending already. Confusion is drawing its bleak curtains.

It's really hard to know what's a good idea when you're growing and these ideas don't hold still and neither do you.

I know this is going to come as a shock to me, but I am leaving me. Perhaps I`ll say I could not have seen this coming, but truthfully things have been wrong between me for some time. Time heals and I`m sure in time I`ll build a new life without me

We always say we'll never get used to change, but then the change happens and we do.

It's a good summer. A full one. With lots of good firsts. Which is good. Since it's the last.

Changing one's whole modus operandi of communication wasn't as easy as just hearing a piece of advice and then starting over.

That's the thing about life, Elliot thought. Whatever just happened, good or bad, it always moves on.

It's always 'something is lost, but something else is gained.