Quotes About Transition

If your first day of school, like your first tattoo, is a pilgrim experience—well, here was Jack's.

Once a Garp, then an Arp, now only an Ar; she knew he was dying. He had just one vowel and one consonant left.

And I? With Egg and Mother gone—and Sorrow in an unknown pose, or in disguise—I knew we had arrived in a foreign country.

You write about when it's safe for a widow to re-enter the world, but there is no such thing as a widow for one year. I will be a widow for the rest of my life!

I remember you as a little boy," she told me, not long ago, "but when I look at you now, I don't know who you are." I told her I occasionally had the same feeling about myself.

el tipo de contemporización que se permite un joven cuando considera que ha «evolucionado» más que su maestro. Larch dotó a Fuzzy Stone de un inconfundible

Um epílogo, disfarçado de resumo do passado, é realmente uma forma de nos alertar sobre o futuro.

Quel ch'è più arduo ad accettarsi, riguardo al passare del tempo, è che le persone che un tempo contavano tanto per noi siano adesso chiuse fra due parentesi.

IF WE FIRST APPEAR IN THE PLEISTOCENE, I THINK THIS IS WHEN WE DISAPPEAR - I GUESS A MILLION YEARS OF MAN IS ENOUGH

When you start sleeping somewhere you know will be the last place you'll get to make your home, that's when the future has a certain finality, too.

Garpo žodžiais tariant, žmogus auga tik užbaigdamas viena ir prad?damas kita.

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried.

My becoming a Canadian citizen was part of the plot.

It was the winter of Jack's senior year

Her posture, which was generally excellent, crumpled; for a moment, Jack was almost as tall as she was.

Your first loss of a loved one, the first death of someone dear to you—when it happens, the pace of everything changes. In the past, there were times when nothing seemed to be happening. When you lose someone, you're aware of the earth's motion; the world is always moving, always ahead of you. For the rest of your life, you know there are other deaths coming—one after another, yours included.

At eleven or twelve, girls think they look awful. They have ceased being children, at least in their estimation, but they have not yet developed into the young women they will become. At that age, there are great differences among them: some have begun to look and move like young women, others have boys' bodies and move as if they were shy young men.

Maybe she could've come back from her suspension and gone back to work at Transcept, as if nothing had happened. But she couldn't. Because something had happened. A lot of somethings. And it meant she could never return to that life, if she even wanted to. And she didn't.

And with fear of change perplexes monarchs

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

a block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly—and with very limited funds.

It was a neighborhood that had degenerated from Victorian to nothing in particular, a block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly—and with very limited funds.

dementia to come forward to capture the financial mind. It is also the time generally required for a new generation to enter the scene, impressed, as had been its predecessors, with its own innovative genius.

In the deep, tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought, I had always felt that the Devon School came into existence the day i entered it, was vibrantly real while I was a student there, and then blinked out like a candle the day I left.