Quotes About Transition

We watch them grow, with sadness and amazement and fear. We have stepped away, but not entirely away. They know this. They sense it. We are no longer here, but we are not yet gone. And we will be like that for the rest of their lives. We watch, and they surprise us. We watch, and they surpass us.

But for today it is working in this awkward kind of working. And that is enough for a beginning.

Let's stay on this song, before it turns to something else, before it switches to a commercial. Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.

I say good-bye to hope, but I also say goodbye to hope's disappointment.

Nothing gold can stay [...] so I guess we'll have to be silver.

It might feel like the end of the world-- but it's the beginning of your art.

LYNDA (TO TINY): Look forward to the moment when it falls apart. Look forward to the moment when you must rearrange your heart. It might feel like the end of the world- but it's the beginning of your art.

Maybe I'm better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it's time to go.

It's a goodbye to some things, and hello to others -A

And you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

She looked like she was waking up in a strange place—only she knew she hadn't gone to sleep yet, and that this was actually life.

I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.

transient, adj. In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office, this desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that I will have to look for other ways to identify the time.

One last song. One last turn. One last street. No matter how hard you try to keep hold of a day, it's going to leave you -Rhiannon

you live each day one at a time you live every day all at once you live with the possibility of good-bye you move on.

We pencil sketch our past lives so we can compare it to the Technicolor of the moment.

I guess I don't believe in a small break. I feel a break is a break, and if it starts small, it only gets wider.

He doesn't want to step out of the present, this present. Because once he does, there will be college applications and college acceptances (just one will do) and the last of everything (last class, last party, last night, last day, last goodbye), and then the world will change forever and he will go to college and eventually become an adult. That is not what he wants. He does not want those complications, that change. Not now.

You're on your own … until you're not.

I do believe that most of the time your life changes, you don't realise in the moment that it's on the cusp of being altered.

Limbo is the state where there are only questions. That was as far as I'd gotten.

I'll go get the horse and buggy, you'll say. And I'll say, But I thought we were taking the hovercraft?

So this is goodbye? It's goodbye to some things. And hello to others.

It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.