Quotes About Transition

When you come to a fork in the road take it

The future ain't what it used to be.

Its getting late early

Give death announcements each time you move instead of giving announcements of the change of address. Send the same when you die.

No trail to follow where the teacher has wandered off- the end of autumn.

Chaque pétale qui tombe Vieillit Les branches du prunier

Lighting one candle with another candle- spring evening

Printemps qui s'en va La beauté Me trahit

You are a clot, so to speak. A clot of envy in the dying era's bloodstream. The dying era envies the era that's coming to take its place.

While she was becoming, everyone grew up and became.

Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East to West or from island to island. Even when you arrive, you're still going back and forth; your children are going round and round. There's no proper term for it - original sin seems too harsh; maybe original trauma would be better.

Other people's words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted you to write. Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before. Other people's words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to wherever you're going.

the end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.

These children spend so much time demanding the status of adulthood from you - even when it isn't in your power to bestow it - and then when the real shit hits the fan, when you need them to be adults, suddenly they're children again.

Overnight everyone has grown up. While she was becoming, everyone grew up and became.

The golden age of Luncheon Vouchers ended ten years ago. For ten years Mickey had been saying, "The golden age of Luncheon Vouchers is over." And that's what Archie loved about O'Connell's. Everything was remembered, nothing was lost. History was never revised or reinterpreted, adapted or whitewashed. It was as solid and as simple as the encrusted egg on the clock.

Four months in the life of a seventeen-year-old is the stuff of swings and roundabouts;... Never again in your life do you possess the capacity for such total personality overhaul.

Thirty years - almost all of them really happy. That's a lifetime, it's incredible. Most people don't get that. But maybe this is just over, you know? Maybe it's over...

Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.

the feeling I had of moving into somebody else's broken ambition.

Porque el divorcio es eso: quitarle cosas que no ya no necesita a una persona a la que ya no quieres.

Every New Year's Eve is impending apocalypse in miniature.

This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love. ~ Archie Jones

I sometimes had fears that at some point, not many years in the future, we would converge upon the exact same age.