Quotes About Transition

Stories can seem like tragedies, depending where they stopped.

Once again I glimpsed the way in which departure ripped the veil from ordinary life, revealing things that were normally kept hidden.

When Grinnell approached her, she cried quietly into her hands but let him lead her to the water, where she washed and changed into the calico dress an officer's wife had sent from the fort. Now, free of face paint and hair dye, and wearing Anglo garb, she was ready — or at least dressed — for her return.

Ginger is now called Jack, and utterly adored in a home of his very own. Blending

It's not that you have to achieve anything, it's that you have to get away from where you are.

Life and death aren't as different from each other as I thought they were. This isn't like walking into a new country. This is like walking into a new room in the same house. This is like sharing a hallway and the same row of framed family pictures, but there's a glass wall between.

We know this much is true, and it's true for all souls: each of us will one day find the feast finished and, fattened or famished, step slowly backward into their own dark hall for that final night of sleep.

We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead.

They were the cream of the crop, but soon they'd be chaff, scythed from swordsmen into skeletons.

We haven't slept in years. This is an advantage of menopause. Some nights, we meet for coffee at 4:00 a.m.

The job of love goddess is a rotating one. You get it when you get there.

It is curious to observe how customs and ceremonies degenerate.

Our happiest and serenest times are now over. My peace and calm are gone, for now I will only ever be able to worry about Sasha.

I felt clueless and nervous--pretty much the same way I'd been feeling ever since I came back from Italy.

Death is a butterfly in it's cocoon waiting to fly . . .

But, above all it is the education of adolescents that is important, because adolescence is the time when the child enters on the state of [adult]hood and becomes a member of society.

We wish the old things because we cannot understand the new, and we are always seeking after that gorgeousness which belongs to things already on the decline, without recognising in the humble simplicity of new ideas the germ which shall develop in the future.

say, every journey begins with a single step.

Remember that it is not enough to have everything around you beautiful, remember that there must also be change and flux, because it is through change that we pretend that we can make decisions, and keep our pride, and go on pretending that both change and choice exist.

The world was furred with late spring snow. It was the soft, thick stuff that excites you unless you are driving or half dead, packing snow already falling in caterpillars off the greening branches.

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.

When God closes one door, He slams another in your face

Each moment is nightfall not spacious enough to contain all hope that there will be morning.

Nothing exists forever in one shape or another. You say existence – you say transformation, evolution and regress.