logo

Quotes About Transition

I dont know what happens to country.
~ Cormac McCarthy
One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everbody is goin to get older with you.
~ Cormac McCarthy
At what age in a child's life does rage become sorrow?
~ Cormac McCarthy
He imagined that in his estate of eternal night he might somehow have already halved the distance to death. That the transition for him could not be so great for the world was already at some certain distance and if it were not death's terrain he encroached upon in his darkness then whose?
~ Cormac McCarthy
You are either going to have to find some other way to live or some other place in the world to do it in.
~ Cormac McCarthy
When he reached the fence he stopped for a moment to look back at the road and then he went on, crossing into a field of rank weeds that heeled with harsh dip and clash under the wind as if fled through by something unseen.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He looked at her. After a while he said: It's not about knowin where you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. Or anybody's. You don't start over. That's what it's about. Ever step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?
~ Cormac McCarthy
He said that like every man who comes to the end of something there was nothing to be done but to begin again.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Meanin I guess that he seen somebody in a place low enough to where he ought to be ready to take a pretty big step.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing out the world which they encountered and leaving what had been and what would never be alike extinguished on the ground behind them.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You might change your mind about what you hate to leave, he said.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Üç hafta önce s?radan bir vatandaÅŸt?m. Dokuz-sekiz aras? çal???yordum. Daha doÄŸrusu sekiz-dört. Bir olay oldu mu oluyor iÅŸte. Sana sormuyor ve iznini istemiyor.
~ Cormac McCarthy
One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everbody is goin to get older with you. You
~ Cormac McCarthy
Young people anymore they seem to have a hard time growin up. I dont know why. Maybe it's just that you dont grow up any faster than what you have to.
~ Cormac McCarthy
the sun rose and the river ran as before but nothing was the same nor did he think it ever would be.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I was a Mormon. Then I converted to the church. Then I became I dont know what. Then I became me.
~ Cormac McCarthy
DOOMED ENTERPRISES divide lives forever into the then and the now.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The boat is going to Texas. Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?
~ Cornelia Funke
We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a story and suddenly finding yourself in this world doesn't seem to be much fun at all.
~ Cornelia Funke
She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through....
~ Cornelia Funke
Night was fading over the fields as if the rain had washed the darkness out of the hem of its garment.
~ Cornelia Funke
We both know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a story and suddenly finding yourself in this world doesn't seem to be much fun at all.
~ Cornelia Funke