Quotes About Transition

i had not meant to leave them; i had only meant to leave. i wasnt running away from them; i was only running away

When the life left a person, it wasn't by degrees. It was instant, like someone pulling down a shade on a window. The

And afterward, when the leaves turned and the snow came, every now and then I would rise in everyone's minds like a tide.

The worst thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task of starting over.

At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you became as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked this too shall pass - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something that everyone recalled as a mild nuisance, completely forgettingone how painful it had been at the time.

I've thought a lot about it: how you can ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at rock bottom. I've thought about all the things I could have done differently, and if it would have led to another outcome. But thinking doesn't change anything, does it?

He Just Rode In On Your Wagon. Calm Your Horses ~ Anna

different. Warmer.' He paused to let that soak

I am; I was. I want to be.

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

Maybe, he thinks, as he's riding on through the snow, maybe this is why she's leaving. Maybe she fell in love with me when we were kids. And now: and now: and now: we're not kids anymore.

The sky was as dark as it had ever been. Frozen, exhausted, and out of breath, they fumbled forward together once more. In the end, all they had done was cross from one kind of desolation to another.

Confusion is that wonderful state right before clarity.

This coming Messiah was to be a sign to the Israelites that an epoch had ended, and from that time forward, they would live securely under His leadership:

New Chapter about New Things

If you think making friends now is difficult; try old age.

Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through …

That's sort of growing up, I guess. Forgetting the things you used to love.

Of the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works.

Yes, another April; in a way, in this story, it is always April.

Yes, tings endure while the living lapse

Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it. For

Yes, things endure, while the living lapse.