Quotes About Transition

I now see transitions for what they are: the dawn of a new chapter. As miraculous as beginnings can be, they can also be excruciating.

I'm a person in process, from the me I once was to the me I am now.

Growth requires movement. And often, the only way forward is through an exit door.

There's a time in your life where you just have to let go, no matter how much you want and need to hold on.

It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

They are caught between one world and another, and they no longer belong anywhere.

Say not an end,' said Maerad in the same language, surprising herself for she felt as if another voice spoke within her, 'say rather another beginning'.

There are moments in my life—just a few of them—when the present and the future seem to bleed into each other and I see everything from the strangest perspective, understanding before I even know what's happening that from here on in, nothing will be the same.

Her brother had not yet learned that, in the end, nothing ever stayed the same. Least of all people.

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Back in another untroubled summer, that of 1870, the British foreign secretary Lord Granville, gazing up from Whitehall, could detect "not a cloud in the sky." Yet a month later, Europe would be torn asunder by the Franco-Prussian War, marking the end of a century of Pax Britannica and all its optimistic assumptions.

To all things an end. To every night a dawn. Even to longest night when dawn never comes, there comes, at last, the dawn.

It was a moment before she replied. And in that moment, she realized that what was gone from her was the child in her, she'd crossed a brink from which there was no turning back. Whoever she had been, she was not anymore. And her life, for better or worse, would never again be what it had.

Unlike her, nothing had yet happened to him.

Growth pains already," Mom said under a sigh pancake-sized.

Once you harden, the arteries do.

Trees are like people. We're alive, then we're memories, then we're not even that.

The dog and the butler could go, but the rest had serious potential.

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Growing up shouldn't mean giving up.

The thing is, I've been thinking a lot about before . The time before the first thing I remember. Before didn't hurt. I don't think this will hurt, either. My ending, I mean. I'll just 'not be' again, I suppose.

There is the before. And then there is the after. Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.

Outside, with Labor Day having come and gone, summer is fighting a dying battle against the fall air. The leaves are hanging perilously on the trees, knowing full well they're going to make the plunge, clinging on as if they stand a chance not to. The garbage smell that has wafted around us for the better part of August is dissipating, ushered out with the humidity, and in its place a briskness is filtering in, like something you'd smell from a bottle of Tide.

Nothing is different here and now than it used to be: The people whom I need most are gone, and the ones who remain do nothing to help me get to where I need to go. Different names, different faces, but the end result is still the same.