Quotes About Transition

Life goes on. It just does, whether we're ready for the next chapter or not. Embrace it.

to hug Toni Burgess and Sandy Wilson, the Devil Girlz we'd met in Taylor Creek, Oregon. Correction: former Devil Girlz. There was no sign of leather. Instead Toni was in a dress and had soccer-mom hair, and she said she was going back to teaching school. Sandy just looked sweet. More people were introduced: lawyers for both sides, and His Honor Marlon Sykes, a judge

She left the apartment, closed the door quietly behind her and joined the others at the lift.

We're on our way. I don't know.

have thought so much could change in one summer? Not me, that's for sure. Not my best buddy, Leonardo the Silent. Probably not the folks at Airbrook Arts Community School either. That's where I was supposed to start seventh grade in the fall. Supposed to. You

It's okay to feel that loss. You can visit that place; you just can't live there.

Just as the snake sheds its skin over and over, we must shed our past.

Meeting is the beginning of parting.' We remember the past, but live for the present, because even the present will be the past someday.

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

Life goes on, doesn't it? Bud Rankin dies. A baby is born.

That's me, by the way, arriving at "prison"—also known as Hills Village Middle School—in

Anyway, I guess I should have seen it coming. It's like every time things start to look okay in my crazy life, something always comes along to change it. It's like it just falls out of the sky.

Chief Fabretti was trying to get up to speed before officially starting on Monday, Miriam explained, and was requesting a quick informal meet and greet with his transition team at his house up in the Riverdale section of the Bronx.

Annnd, after approximately one hour of sweetness, Angel the Tyrant was back.

The Smileys, of course, are still the Smileys. They just have more room to frown in.

I'm the first of us to go. Don't you dare argue with me. ~ Nana Mama

back to the city.

I really do hope myeline meant something in the end- that it meant all those things. I don't know what's next- what any of us can expect- but I do know I'm ready to see what's out there for me.

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

What happened in August of this year

This is what I actually looked like when I got to school that first morning of sixth grade.

Her name was Erica Williams before she married Fish. I think she was from Honolulu but I don't know for sure. As to where she is now? I don't even know if she's in the United States. She was so ashamed of Randy. She couldn't hold her head up. After Bill died, she had a tag sale. Sold most of her things and then just took off." Cindy

How about you, Rafe?" she asked when Georgia finally took a breath. "What do you think of middle school so far?" "Well," I said, "it's not as bad as I thought it was going to

Martha mouthed my hand. I assured her that I was on it, and quickly dressed in jeans and sweatshirt to take my good dog for a walk. I remembered something told to me by a stranger on a train. She was holding her baby, and she jerked on her dog's leash to pull it under the seat. She saw me looking at her, I guess with judgment in my eyes. She said, "Before you have a baby, your dog is your baby. When you have a baby, your dog is a dog." I