Quotes About Transition

Divorce is a series of internal earthquakes, that's what it is, one after the other.

I felt my aloneness like a coat. You think you get used to death in the dying. But after the dying is done, you see how the end is the beginning.

there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you'll stay in a place you've outgrown.

Love begins as a rhapsody and ends as a dirge.

You know your parents are going to die, but they are going to die later. They are going to die sometime. But that time will not come until you no longer need them. While you still need them, or might need them, they will have the good taste and

He said there are times we must let sorrow come, learn the lesson and then move on. He said when you think about it, life is just moments. And you have to have faith that the next good moment is coming right along.

What's the point in loving anything when it will just change or be taken away?" I asked. And she said, "The point in loving is only that. And when you lose something, you have to remember that then there is room for the next thing. And there is always a next thing, Cece. I wish you would believe me.

there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you'll stay in a place you've outgrown. When

This is what happens. You live past your time of importance and relevance and the world must be given over to the younger ones.

It's good for you to be a bit uncomfortable from time to time, especially if you're only a few steps away from relief.

I think people see death as the hunter, but it's just the ticket taker, the timekeeper. It's the sound of a record playing in the background.

And when you lose something, you have to remember that then there is room for the next thing. And there is always a next thing.

Eighteen. The word is a poem.

When did After start? I don't remember it starting. I only remember it having arrived. Things were bad for such a long time before he left. But I miss him. I can feel loneliness in my like circulation; as constant and as irrefutable.

I don't hold Travis anymore, of course- not to read to him, or for any other reason, either. I wish I'd known that the last time was going to be the last time.

This time he sighed heavily before shaking his head. But he did shake his head. Kind of. "No, some kid in the neighborhood told me and Russell that the chemistry lab of Seattle Community College had just switched over to Mac from PC, and we really, really wanted a Mac.

Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.

Gradually people began to speak of the place as Amberside, though there were a few diehards who never stopped calling it Villa Caprice, or, as in the case of Eli Scaynes, the Villa Cay-priss. But Julian and Joe and Tom and Lucy and Davey never called it anything but the Blake's house; and Portia and Foster never called it anything but home. All their lives they knew that one of the best things that ever happened to them was to be able to call it that.

But an ordinary day can mark the beginning of an extraordinary journey!

of the few young men and boys at the fort, now that she was too old for racing and climbing trees with them, she felt both shy and critical...

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.

When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.

What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.