Quotes About Transition

Life just rolls on, adjusting to whatever was subtracted.

Here's what I think about dying: I think it's not so much about being and then not being. I think it's more about where you are. Not whether you are.

No, the really tough bit is when you find yourself dropped on the other side, and you have to find a way for your life to go forward from there.

We shouldn't have stayed so long." "Water under the bridge, Buddy Boy." Buddy wondered why his father would bring up anything as scary as the river flowing under the railroad bridge. Especially at a time like this.

Not as sure as you are. But it's okay. Either way it's okay. I like the world with all its faults. It was an honor to have a place in it. But going where Nan went is an appealing option, too. Whatever

I'm not saying this to be mean, Estelle, but this is not your day. I'm sorry. You have to let go and let things change.

Joseph Campbell that says something like "We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

There comes an age when you answer a call that has nothing to do with the family that raised you. You grow up over their heads, beyond their reach. They'll hate you for it, but this is the natural order of things.

it's a weird feeling to get well when you never even knew you'd been sick. I thought it was just normal, how I felt. And then it got better, and I thought, Damn.

It's just that this might be the last train to happy. And you want to make sure to get on it." Felipe

Just for a brief moment she pictured leaving this place. Wondered how long they would be allowed to stay here and where she would go when this odd segment of her life was over. She had just left a life when she met Sarah and her grandmother—a life that was now completely in the past—and had not yet built a new one on her own. So the idea of returning to her own life felt nebulous at best, meaningless at worst. How could she go back to a life that did not yet exist

Part of resetting your life is accepting where you are in your life right now.

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

They were not children. They had grown into people he knew little about. And they had done so without his help or influence, or even,--for the most part--his witness. It made him feel as though something precious had been taken from him.

Things change so fast. Life turns on a dime.

robe and opened the door.

But there was a definite sense that all bets were off now. The line she had so carefully toed all her life was just a smudge in the dirt behind her. Bea did not feel inclined to look back. Life was new. Not good. Just new.

It was actually harder to think about moving forward into whatever unknown situation they had planned for me than to ditch out and go back to what I knew. What I knew was terrible, but at least I knew it, and there's something that's almost a comfort in that.

She doesn't want to move forward into the next part of her life; she can't move backward in time even if she tries. And she doesn't much like where she is.

Chapter One The Tipping Day Is it just me, or does everybody have a day in their life like the one I'm about to retell? I'm talking about those days that act like a fulcrum between everything that came before and your brand-new life after. It

Just when we think we have mastered what is expected of us, relationships change, new persons join us on the journey, or circumstances call for untried roles.

That's what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It's practically what they're for.

When little ones say they want to go home, they almost never mean it. They mean they are tired of this particular game and would like to start another.

All stories must end so, with the next tale winking out of the corners of the last pages, promising more, promising moonlight and dancing and revels, if only you will come back when spring comes again.