Quotes About Transition

They say a girl becomes a woman when she loses her mother. You, child, were born a woman.

We cannot write about death without writing about life. Stories that start at the end of life often take us back to the past, to the beginning - or to some beginning - to unearth what there was before, what will be missed, what will be lost.

She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still

Life was indeed a continuous lesson in finding ways to be less troubled by certain things, so that we might make room for new concerns, which arrived with the promptness and regularity of mail coaches.

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

L'église de tout à l'heure. Plus de tapis rouge. Ce soir, une vierge de moins.

love to travel, But hate to arrive

We can't solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them

How many hands were shook and names were signed and pipes were passed congenially in a circle, before the first of the used-car dealerships rose up on the ground where the gods had walked?

Chapter 6 Open Up Those Golden Gates

American society is the only one which has passed directly from barbarism into decadence without once knowing civilisation.

Any expectation of an essential change of regime through a change of party-administration is illusory.

Before Sutter, native people had heeded the cycle of the seasons, time was infinite, and life's rhythms were unchanging. Now, for at least part of their lives, some Indians were wedded to a concept that proclaimed that time was limited and that it had economic value. The clang of Sutter's bell announced that time was money, that it marched onward, and that it waited for no man, including Indians in the 1840s.

the "allies" of today would be the bureaucrats of tomorrow ...

Crossing over from Mexico to the United States was a big step, but that part was easy. Big things are like that--easy to identify, and, with a deep breath, done all at once. As life turned out, it was the small that was difficult. The small things--which is all the opposite of what one might think.

She's a manner of speaking. Even the flowers don't come back, or the green leaves. There are new flowers, new green leaves. There are other beautiful days. Nothing comes back, nothing repeats itself, because everything is real.

Y lo más triste del asunto es que va a tener razón: no soy su tipo. Al menos, ya no lo soy. Porque de que lo fui , lo fui. Pero algo pasó. Y éste es el resultado, supongo.

Sai cosa si fa quando non se ne può più? Si cambia.

The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty]

Growing up is never straight forward. There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that there are certain memories that you'll never get back, and certain people that are going to change, and the hardest part is knowing that there's nothing you can do except watch them.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect; he becomes an adolescent, the day he forgives them he becomes an adult

November is, for many reasons, the month for the axe

It turned out that the Germans' modest and conscientious reforms were only a starting point for more rapacious regimes to come.