Quotes About Transition

All the nervousness she'd been feeling about skipping to fourth grade suddenly burbled up inside her.

Il est toujours fort difficile de dire à quel moment une crainte s'est transformée en certitude et quelle mince donnée supplémentaire a changé la face des choses. On se sentait encore soutenu par un petit souffle d'espérance, dont on ne s'avouait pas le progressif affaiblissement. Et puis, passé un certain cap, on s'aperçoit qu'il n'est plus là et que l'on s'en doutait depuis un bon moment.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Life is like that. Destruction precedes emergence of something better. Destruction is not bad. It only feels that way.

After the first death there is no other.' - Elizabeth Barrett Browning The first death changes everything, and all deaths afterward bring us back to the first death.

Buying a house is right up there with the holy trinity of death, divorce, and public speaking.

She's a dog warden now, recently vacated from her life as a psychologist. Some sort of career move.

After the first death there is no other.' Do you know who wrote that?

The first death changes everything, and all deaths afterward bring us back to the first death.

She guessed he was past a turning point, early thirties, where he imagined he would know something with certainty, and he looked angry that his life was not unfolding in a way befitting him.

After the first death there is no other.' Do

Before I came to New York I lived here, in this mausoleum. I was nothing. I was dead. When I came to New York it was like a veil lifting. For the first time I felt I was alive, breathing.

I'll tell you this. Leaving that which you love breaks your heart open. But you will find a jewel inside, and this precious jewel is the opening of your heart to all that is new and all that is different, and it will be the making of you-if you allow it to be.

Thus a day that had seen so many tears ended in the midst of a rainbow.

It's because it's the beginning, and also the end. That was what she loved about the place where the water met the land. A promise of something fresh, a suggestion that even if what is happening now is to be suffered, there is an end and a beginning.

Maybe this was our last summer as best friends. I feel like something's going to change now and I'm not going to be able to change it back. —Margaret

He wondered where that stuff went to, where love went to, how a person could just love somebody one day and boom –- the next day love somebody else.

Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

Everyone else has gone away. And now coming back home isn't really coming back home at all.

Back then, we still all believed in happy endings. None of us knew yet how many endings and beginnings one story could have.

In your life, if you're lucky enough, you are born during a moment in time when the world is ready for the change you're bringing.

It seemed like someone was always leaving someone, like that's the way the world worked—people were born and people died, people left and people came. It was like the world was saying you can't have everything you want at the same time.

Life...moves us through all the time changes. All kinds of changes. And we're made so that we roll and move with it. Sometimes somebody gets stuck in the present and the rolling stops—but the changing doesn't.