Quotes About Transition

I have long believed that my generation is a transitional one and will be the last to remember what we refer to as traditional America.

Time had removed him and it would not allow him to go back.

I love the early hours of the day. It's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.

You see how easy it is to go from having everything to having nothing?

For a brief moment he glimpsed a new destiny opening before his eyes, a window into a future he had never imagined for himself, a path to an entirely different life, and yet just as quickly as the window opened it closed, slammed shut as much by long years of training as by a feeling of trepidation.

The Civil War started out as one kind of conflict and ended as something quite different.

He felt like a radio tuning in to a new channel, one that was beginning to fuzz into range, slowly coming in clear, proper, the way his Hettie had always wanted him to be. The new feeling humbled him.

Maya departs for city, cat, and lover. The days grow shorter. Summer's over. We take long walks among the flying leaves And ponder turnings taken by our lives. Look at each other closely, as friends will On parting. This is not farewell, Not now. Yet something in the sad End-of-season light remains unsaid.

It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.

Childhood is over when you know you're gonna die.

There was a time when that kind of thing looked like the kingdom of heaven, but somewhere along the line it had lost its glow. Maybe that was just the cost of growing up. And maybe the cost of growing up was too high.

So the leaves were falling slowly in the cool breezes, and of those left on the trees few were green. Most were brown and red and gold, and when they piled up on the ground and were rained on, they smelled awfully good, although it was a sort of lonesome, musty smell.

Gardening is not outcome-oriented. A successful harvest is not the end of a gardener's existence, but only a phase of it. As any gardener knows, the vitality of a garden does not end with a harvest. It simply takes another form. Gardens do not die in the winter but quietly prepare for another season.

I've been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn't fall nearly fast enough!"-Iggy

The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is tha life actually goes on.

But then we have to leave, have to. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way, Jane. That's just.. how it works

Speed never killed anyone! It's suddenly becoming stationary… that's what gets you.

Turns out an apocalypse actually comes on pretty slowly. Not fire and brimstone, but rust and dandelions. Not a bang but a whimper.

THE RIVER OF FOREVER is not the serene, clear-blue comfort that you'd hope to greet your soul after you've exhaled your last breath in the Overworld.

I can close the book on this part of our history. I can start a new chapter, but it doesn't matter. because now, the magic is everywhere.

There comes a point in everybody's life when you realize the stakes have suddenly changed. The carefree ride of your life slams into a stone wall; all those years of merely bouncing along, life taking you where you want to go, abruptly end.

Adolescents were the most wretched humans of all.

The secret of imaginary friends. Children have imaginary friends to help guide them into their lives. We help children feel less alone, help them find their place in the world, in their families. But then we have to leave, have to. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way, Jane. That's just... how it works.

That's when I realized she hadn't really left for good. She'd just gone on ahead a little.