Quotes About Transition

She replaces the phone number on the board, her damp fingers smudging the ink so that the digits blur as if in a strong wind, or underwater.

Pearl, my darling," her mother said. "I'm so sorry. It's time to go." She took Mia's hand, and Pearl, uprooted, came free and followed her mother back to the car.

Oh, we don't use rabbits anymore," the pretty young doctor laughed, slipping the needle into the soft crook of Marilyn's arm. "We use frogs now.

Oh, we don't use rabbits anymore," the pretty young doctor laughed, slipping the needle into the soft crook of Marilyn's arm. "We use frogs now. Much faster and easier. Isn't modern science wonderful?

People are like that, too, you know. They start over. They find a way.

Even her beloved Warren gave up at that point -- "I don't need to know how it works, Mi," he told her at last, "I just want to see the pictures" -- and Mia realized that she was crossing into a place she would have to go alone.

Did you have to burn down the old to make way for the new?

she was trying on new skins, like all teenagers do,

parking lot.

What a job, clearing the homes of the dead, piling whole lives into garbage bins and lugging them to the curb.

Behind them, empty bookshelves. Bird has never seen books on them, but there they stand, fossils of a long-gone era.

with the idea of starting over, so nearly all of her work has to do with change or transformation in some

At that moment Moody had a sudden clear understanding of what had already happened that morning: his life had been divided into a before and an after, and he would always be comparing the two.

The same place people went when they died, where everything went: on, away, out of your life.

Ölmek istiyorum, dekorsuz, poz almadan. Batan bir güne? gibi ihti?amla de?il, kaderin bileklerime takt??? prangalardan kurtulmak için ölmek. Mütevazi bir odadan süslü bir salona geçer gibi, realiteden tarihe geçmek umurumda de?il. Ah inanabilseydim. Ist?rap gayyas?nda aylarca kald?m, orada yaln?z sükut vard?. Neredesin, yanan aln?m? mü?fik avuçlar?nda dinlendirecek Meçhul Dost?

But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun.

L'unica gioia al mondo è cominciare. È bello vivere perché vivere è cominciare, sempre, ad ogni istante. Quando manca questo senso – prigione, malattia, abitudine, stupidità –, si vorrebbe morire.

Meanwhile we arrived at our lane and the sight of the olive tree rubbed me the wrong way. I began to see that no spot is less habitable than a place where one has been happy.

Gerçek ac? çeÅŸitli düÅŸüncelerden meydana gelir. Ä°nsan ayn? anda ancak bir ÅŸey düÅŸünebileceÄŸine göre, bir düÅŸünceden öbürüne geçmeyi, böylece s?rayla her s?zlayan yerin ac?s?n? dindirmeyi öÄŸren.

M'accorsi allora che tutto era cambiato. Canelli mi piaceva per se stessa, come la valle e le colline e le rive che ci sbucavano. Mi piaceva perché qui tutto finiva, perch'era l'ultimo paese dove le stagioni non gli anni s'avvicendano.

Chad Davidson

What did former slaves become once emancipated?12 That second question is easy to miss if we assume that the only two conditions a person could occupy were either enslavement or full inclusion within the American polity complete with enjoyment of equal rights, or, in other words, citizenship as we currently conceptualize it.

I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.