Quotes About Transition

The awful thing about a vacation is that the moment it begins your happiness is already clouded by its approaching end.

When you get accustomed to people or places or ways of living, and then have them snatched away, it does leave an awfully empty, gnawing sort of sensation.

Estoy pasando por un cambio total de mi carácter. Odio la inestabilidad. Me asusta la idea de ver mi vida desorganizada.

Her eyes wandered back to the campus again, and she suddenly grew sober as the thought swept over her that in a few weeks more it would be hers no longer. This happy, irresponsible community life, which had come to be the only natural way of living, was suddenly at an end.

Avec un naturel éprouvé, elle passa en quelques instants de l'émotion à la reconnaissance, de la reconnaissance à la tendresse, de la tendresse au désir.

it was not whim or wildness which made me go, but a sudden clear realization that tho you were the first man of importance to me, you could not be the last. — Gwendolyn MacEwen to Milton Acorn, 1963 (age 21)

In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.

There's a blessing in the moments after terror and before confirmation.

Beto is afraid of turning eleven, because it feels like a treachery to his brother. "But I guess it would be worse to not turn eleven, right?

Marta's death changed everything, of course. It changed everything.

She can't even imagine how this loss will shape the person Luca becomes. They need to do a funeral ceremony as soon as they're safe. Luca will need a ritual, a method of fashioning his grief into a thing he can exert some small control over.

They're both smart, quick to learn. But their lives have been so expansive, their traumas so adult. They are young women and now they're meant to clip themselves into a three-ring binder each day. They're meant to hang their jackets in lockers and flirt with boys in the hallways. They're supposed to regress into shapes that were never familiar to them.

When at last they begin to move, instead of happiness or relief, they all feel a tentative, miniature suspension of dread.

Progressivement, l'alimentation est dominée par quelques céréales, voire une seule, ce qui entraîne parfois d'importantes carences. Les hommes du Néolithique et des périodes suivantes consomment moins de protéines, de vitamines et d'oligo-éléments que les chasseurs-cueilleurs du début du Paléolithique supérieur.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Mon intuition me dit que le monde change autour de nous, que les anciens royaumes vacillent sur leurs trônes, que les peuples secouent leur joug et que la république est déjà dans les coeurs, sinon au bout des fusils ! Allons-nous assister passivement à ces tempêtes, et sombrer avec ce galion pourri qu'est Schönbrunn ?

Mais la société n'est pas davantage apte à canaliser les pulsions agressives qui caractérisent la puberté, car les réponses institutionnelles ont elles-mêmes disparu : le scoutisme, les patronages, les mouvements d'action catholique, les mouvements de jeunesse laïques, les Jeunesses musicales de France… Que reste-t-il de tout cela aujourd'hui ? Le service militaire lui-même a disparu ; or il représentait une sorte de rite initiatique au moment où le jeune

Endings are sad, aren't they?" "Yes.

It wasn't a rock. It was a dog's rubber bone, left behind months ago to be buried first under autumn leaves, then winter snow. Just an old rubber bone, but Batty was already braced for what she knew would come—the rushing in her ears, the stab in her stomach, and the seeping away of the colors from her world. The soft blue spring sky, the yellow forsythia hedge, even Ben's bright red hair—all dulled, all gray and wretched.

If it hurts so much that you have to bubble-wrap your body, maybe you should play something different.

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

Life begins on the other side of despair.