Quotes About Transition

Maybe I've moved to the dark side, but it's clean and nice and we never run out of toilet paper.

Everyday I feel more and more like a full-fledged adult. Even though it was (metaphorically) only yesterday I was sloshing in the door at four a.m. after Dollar Beer Night, I find myself with a mortgage, four types of insurance, and a non-laundry-quarter-based retirement fund.

I mean, six years ago my electricity's being cut off and my car's getting repossessed and I'm being evicted from my apartment, and now I'm all Yeah, havin' dinner with Rudy in the Hamptons, what of it?

Today, we're a beeper generation in a smartphone world.

and World Cuisine educations are on temporary hold since I'm on my way to

I want to reframe the midlife crisis, making it into the midlife opportunity.

Swiftly, inexplicably, willingly, the people of Germany had voted themselves out of a democratic republic and into a dictatorship.

They who had already crossed the river into the land of freedom were obliged to turn and offer a hand to those who were taking their first tentative steps upon the shore, and Elizabeth resolved to do exactly that.

You can't get your arms to stop making circles in the air if you never say good-bye.

and was struck by the next image I saw. Francesca's arm held the door open for Mike, whose bare arms were strapped around a dusty taped box with my name scribbled on it. My past giving way to my future, which embraced my past. Mike

Don't even think about it. Well, when can I walk by myself? When you get your driver's license. You always, always say that. Dillie scowled at him. That's when everything happens. It's going to be a busy day, Phin agreed.

Stephen Sondheim said : If you know where you're going, you've gone. Move on.

I'm stuck in the old me, and I don't know how to get out. I just know the old me isn't the real me anymore.

There were no safe places in life. That's why you had to keep moving

Where's my Italian lace? Where's my bouffant sleeves? Where's my goddamn hoop skirt? The same place as your goddamned morals, you worthless tramp. It's been modernized, Brenda, Agnes said. When you pass something on to someone else, you have to expect changes. You don't get it back.

Be prepared for some changes. His voice dropped. It'll be noisy. Maybe dirty. Definitely messy. But I can guarantee you'll be satisfied when it's over.

You leave a place and people and after a while, you change, they change and whatever it was that connected you to begin with is gone forever

You're hitting rock bottom," she said. "You know, Jennifer, you have to hit bottom before you can make a change, and it's finally happening.

I forgot that the purpose of desire is to draw us forward into living, into what captivates us—not to help us attain a particular career or creative goal or get paid more or even to stay married or find lasting love. I forgot that every major transition requires rediscovering desire; without that, I faltered. I forgot that what I bother about is always my choice and that I must actually choose, instead of looking outside myself for what to do next and then pretending it was my choice.

Sometimes, life is about what happens before death.

I don't like futons. They can't commit. I'm a bed! I'm a couch! I'm a bed! I'm a couch!

A girl named Jo once had a life / But that's gone now; she's only wife.

This is a door. You can close it and stay here, outside, by yourself, or you can walk through it and join them

husband, Dave, my daughter, and I had moved out of Cen- ter City and into a house in Haverford that I refused to call a McMansion, even though that's exactly what it was, but I loved Ellie's pediatrician so much that 1'd never even tried to find a suburban replacement.