Quotes About Transition

It's hard for anybody to put their finger on the moment when life changes from being something that is nearly all in front of you to something that happened while your attention was elsewhere.

The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.

transition from being just friends; to get to know each other in that way

would be grown up and living their own lives by now, of course, but

every woman needs to stop sometimes at the great railway station of life—on the evening of her big birthday, or the end of a big love affair, or even an ordinary afternoon—and take stock of where she is, how she got there, where she's going, and why. That's what you're doing right this very minute. You've already started. And you're already there.

But time, as I came to learn, only moves in one direction, and somewhat reluctantly, I traveled with it:

In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose; now, in young adulthood, she was convinced it was too late to change.

We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; merely in different rooms.

Some friendships just have their seasons, and that's ok.

Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up.

In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again.

grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced.

It was one of those moments that I think everybody experiences - and they don't have to be dramatic - when things begin to change; and you know there's no point ruminating about it, because thinking isn't going to help you understand. You're not ready to understand it yet; you have to live your way into the meaning.

The process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

somehow when you live with somebody, when you see them every day, you don't notice that they've changed. People who hardly know them at all see the change in them before you do.

how often the early stages of change of cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar...the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

Grief is only as deep as the love it's replaced

because grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced.

I was born in the age of alas.

Yet I can walk away from best friends and rarely think of them again. I can close a door and not look back. There's something about my soul that's always ready to go, to break camp, to unfold the road map, to leave at night when the house inspection's done and the civilians are asleep and the open road is calling...

As a teacher, I had been a happy man. Now, I was only a diminished one.

After a glorious victory in a grand war, the hardest battle to fight is the first little skirmish of the next campaign.

Watching the day slowly bloom into night. That's how it always seemed to me: not the fading of a withered flower, but the opening of some dark, rich blossom, with unexpected hues and heavy scents.

How strange to be in a dream one moment and in the world the next, and to know the difference in the blink of an eye.