Quotes About Transition

I used to think my problem was that my disk was full; now I'm forced to conclude that the opposite is true: it's becoming empty

One good thing I'd like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a much better wife to your next husband because you have a place for your anger; it's not directed at the person you're currently with.

But the truth is you don't always know you're getting a divorce. For years, you're married. Then, one day, the concept of divorce enters your head. It sits there for a while. You lean toward it and then you lean away. You make lists. You calculate how much it will cost. You tote up grievances, and pluses and minuses.

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

Aidan to Jude: What's wrong with running away if where you were didn't suit you? Doesn't it follow you're funning to something else? Something that does suit you?

After hell comes heaven.

Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

To crave forever is to dismiss the beauty and wonder of the cycle.

Who I am now is who I was before. The three years between, they were the aberration. You wouldn't recognize the person I became during that lost time. I barely do.

Change--savor the cool, fresh flavor of it.

I can't believe what a state I got myself into over this. Everyone was right. They said it would just happen, and it did. I guess the best things do.

Bridges are burned, Iona reminded herself, for the chance to build new ones. Wherever they led--and they'd already brought her closer to who she was than any of the ones before.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different.

People too often knock down the old for the new instead of understanding that legacy.

Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles. ROBERT FROST

Shelby trailed off when she spotted the goldfish swimming in circles inside the Waterford. Well, he's come up in the world, she said with a jerky laugh. I don't think he appreciates it.

Everyone feels hemmed in from time to time, no matter where they live." She laid a hand on his thigh. "When I'm feeling that way, I go to Ireland. Walk along an empty beach. When I do, I think of all the people who have walked there before, and will walk there again. Then it occurs to me that nothing is forever. No matter how bad, or how good, everything passes and moves on to another level." "'All things change; nothing perishes,'" he mumbled.

Everything seemed paused for change, but was she? Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. And, she admitted, she prized routine, tradition, even repetition.

I don't know if it helps, but I know when we lost Dad, we were all just numb, I guess. Just taking a step at a time dealing with all the horrible, practical things you have to deal with. Eventually you find yourself in another place. Some of it's familiar, some of it's not. You make something else out of it, and you know you couldn't have without the person you lost.

He was a hero, and never to be forgotten. And today, as he would want, as must be done, a new leader comes.

Her mother would be married by then, and just back from her honeymoon. Maddy and Theo would be her brother and sister, and back in school. She would be planning her own wedding, though she'd pressured Tyler not to announce their engagement yet.

Flowers that had bloomed brilliant from spring through autumn blackened under the killing frost.

It's just that a life can change so completely and so quickly. The best and the worst. In a blink.