Quotes About Transition

Perhaps all the dead must go home before they can leave for ever.

Maybe some of these new changes in her life weren't going to be so bad after all.

Squealing, Ashley threw her arms around Miranda, while Gage ducked swiftly out of the way. "You'll get used to her, Miranda," Parker sighed, pulling Ashley back.

I think even then I knew Omar would be going away, would be leaving the land to explore cities and towns. But still I tried as hard as I could-it was my job-to plant a sense of the wild within him: something that calls one back into the interior, back into the shadows and safety of a place that still has reverence to it. Within every atom of it.

In four more years, after Grandfather died, Father would move to Fredericksburg and start a garden: not yet tired of living, but tired, I knew, of wondering what he had missed.

This can't be real. It can't be. You just don't wake up to another day, go along living your life then—bang—without warning, without a chance to prepare, in a heartbeat, everything changes.

Demagnetizing is a fact of life.

Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.

Sometimes, it takes us a while to appreciate something new, something that might change us for the better.

No story ever ends, does it? It just leads into others.

Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.

He'd gone from sixteen to seventy-five in a matter of seconds, but the old-man smell happened instantly, like boom. Congratulations! You stink!

Oh, why does college have to happen to perfectly good people?

Jason hated being an old man.

Promise me one thing. Whatever happens, when you get back to Olympus, when you're a god again, remember. Remember what it's like to be human.

For once, I didn't look back.

And for once i didn't look back.

But not like this: not with the house just an afterimage, and my mom a spirit, and my dad...recycled. Carter Kane, Chapter 41

You need to be prepared to move." "Why?" I sat up and looked out the windshield, straight into a raging sandstorm. "Oh…

Well, I hope you like it here, Leo. It used to be .......really nice.

If I had still been an immortal, I might have flirted with her myself. But I was now a sixteen-year-old boy. My mortal form was working its way upon my state of mind. I saw Sally Jackson as a mom—a fact that both consternated and embarrassed me. I thought about how long it had been since I had called my own mother. I should probably take her to lunch when I got back to Olympus.

And yes, we broke up.' Grover bleated, 'really? But I heard - I thought -' 'You thought what?' Piper's voice remained calm and even. 'That we'd be together forever like Percy and Annabeth?' (...) 'Things change. People change. Jason and me - we started out oddly. Hera kind of messed with our heads, made us think we shared a past we didn't share.

See you on the other side. -Percy Jackson