Quotes About Transition

a phone line would set

Come Senators, Congressmen, Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorways, Don't block up the halls…For the times they are a changin'.

and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world.

They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived—bound, in other words, for life.

It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.

She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had no say in the matter. Life started out one thing and then suddenly turned a corner and became something else.

Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.

It was like that Talking Head song. "And you may ask yourself, 'How did I get here?' … And you may tell yourself, 'This is not my beautiful house. And you may tell yourself, 'This is not my beautiful wife' ". As he responded to the essay questions, Mitchell kept bending his answers toward their practical applications. He wanted to know why he was here, and how to live. It was perfect way to end your college career. Education had finally led Mitchell out into life.

Just when she'd got her head on straight, her body started falling apart.

She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life.

Lefty, who'd been observing all the ways Greece had been handed down to America, arrived now at where the transmission stopped. In other words: the future. He stepped off to meet it. Desdemona, having no alternative, followed.

My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.

As he responded to the essay questions, Mitchell kept bending his answers toward their practical application. He wanted to know why he was here, and how to live. It was the perfect way to end your college career. Education had finally led Mitchell out into life.

After four years at college, nobody was anybody she knew.

Lefty and Desdemona's cousin, Sourmelina, had gone to America and was living now in a place called Detroit. Built

Little by little he'd change; he'd get older; everything he felt now would fade into memory and then into nothing.

Historical fact: people stopped being human in 1913.

Úgy döntött, hogy nem ragadhat le, élni kell tovább.

Olyannak akarta érezni a világot, mint ahol csak most kezdÅ'dik az élet – holott valójában épp véget érni készült.

It's a kind of fugue state, anyway, early sex. Before the routine sets in, or the love. Back when the groping is largely anonymous. Sandbox sex. It starts in the teens and lasts until twenty or twenty-one. It's all about learning to share. It's about sharing your toys.

Drunk, and kissing us, or passing out in chairs, they were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.

Remember where you're standing when the spotlight goes off, Lovell warned me once, when our book was a best-seller and the movie it spawned was in theatres. You'll have to find your own way off the stage.

Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny, the way someone falling down in the street is funny. I entered a revolving door and emerged as a human being. When you think of me is my face electronically blurred?

Moving to something else, whatever else the virtues of that new career path, will rob you of the resources and competence you have built doing what you do.