Quotes About Transition

Don't write," he said, seeing me scribbling into my notebook, taking me for a journalist. "Periodista?" Diego asked. "Pensionado," I said. Retiree.

There is nothing shocking about leaving home, but rather, a slow feeling of gathering sadness as each familiar place flashes by the window and disappears and becomes part of the past.

to rid the people of their old beliefs and insert new ones.

At a certain age you stop being a child and start raising your parents ...

Nothing fully prepares you for the strangeness of the border experience.

Sometimes I miss Boston', I said. It was a timid confession. I missed it every day - its space, its familiar streets and smells. I missed the laughter, I missed the feel of American money which was like the feel of flesh. Reality for me was the past, and it was elsewhere. This - London - was like a role I had been assigned to play, and I was still yet unsure of my lines.

from San Luis Potosí, and at Santa María del Río, where the good road ended

It was the simplest crossing I'd ever made in a long career of crossing borders

he was turning sixty-two, not an age of life-altering shocks but only of subtle diminishments.

calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month.

I decided to go because I had a free year.

just ten steps from one country to the other, a door in the wall

Adventure is the unexpected experience of discovery, of course; but it is also a kind of death, an end of innocence.

In India, the past refuses to die, undisturbed by new realities.

And the day your childhood dies is probably the first day you really know what guilt is.

But now Nature starts doing things. The hormones start rolling and those old testicles start producing and all the rest of it--like breathing. You don't go around asking for it. It happens. It happened to me when I was twelve. (Sean)

Zelda is worried about the regular death that happens when you grow too old. -Henry

If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new Hello. Paulo Coehlo

And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.

It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure. When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive--I'll find love again.

and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.

When someone leaves, its because someone else is about to arrive- I'll find love again.

Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.