Quotes About Transition

turn around, though

She was what she was. Or had been what she was, she corrected. God only knew what she was now.

She was, at sixteen years, eight months and twenty-one days, a product of her mother's meticulous and detailed agenda. That was about to change.

Tereza. He took her shoulders, turned her to face him, and she felt a shiver of alarm. This is my last harvest. Eli— I'm not going to die. To reassure, he ran his hands down her arms. I want to retire. I've been thinking of it, seriously thinking of it since you and I traveled to Italy. We've let ourselves become too rooted here and there

What happens before matters because it shapes things. But who you were a year ago isn't as important as who you are now.

The grouper isn't one of your prettier fish, but it's versatile. They're all born female and produce eggs before they change sex and become functioning males.

The boy had believed, absolutely, he'd never fall. The man knew he'd survive if he did.

her long, lovely eyes, mirrored the grief. "It's a hard, hard thing. I can't even imagine it." "Your life stops right there. Just stops. And when it starts up again, it's different. It's never what it was before that moment. Never." He

ruthlessly pulled weeds and spent blossoms.

News was only news until something else came along.

Can't fix what used to be, only what's now and coming up.

Powiedzia?a sobie, ?e teraz ju? zamyka ten rozdzia? i zostawia go tam, gdzie jego miejsce.

Shelby knew, and could be another gateway.

All that's done, she thought. "All that's done," she murmured. "So why are we still here?

transformation

Can't fix what used to be, only what is coming up.

Ruling groups of every type...whose power is dwindling seldom vacate the field without a fight even if the chances of maintaining their power and rule may be nil. The weaker they are...the crasser, the more reckless and unrealistic...are the measures likely to be with which they seek to preserve their position.

How can you fully open your heart to someone new, when in fact...what you really need is closure from your past.

We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.

This made her remember why people take up walking: It is because they no longer have anywhere to go.

What those anti-cookie-baking mothers wanted me to do was turn baseball into soccer.

So think how this might alter the memory of The Matrix : In some protracted reality, film historians will reinvestigate an extremely commercial action movie made by people who (unbeknownst to the audience) would eventually transition from male to female. Suddenly, the symbolic meaning of a universe with two worlds—one false and constructed, the other genuine and hidden—takes on an entirely new meaning.

The video for 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' was not more consequential than the reunification of Germany. But Nevermind is the inflection point where one style of Western culture ends and another begins, mostly for reasons only vaguely related to music.

Now the 1990s seem like a period when the world was starting to go crazy, but not so crazy that it was unmanageable or irreparable. It was the end of the twentieth century, but also the end to an age when we controlled technology more than technology controlled us.