Quotes About Transition

Children who have been moved need reassurance about the permanent nature of families. In many cases they have specific worries troubling them. Blanket reassurances do not reassure.

but there will be other things, new things. That's how it is with change. You leave one thing behind, and there's something else to take it's place.

But there will be other things, new things. That's how it is with change. You leave one thing behind, and there's something else to take its place.

As summer turns to fall, Vincent, at twenty-six, is alone.

Everything that she valued had come to her through change, and through change she would one day lose everything. All except honor.

spin a cocoon around herself.

He'd died. Plain and simple. And it pissed him off. Left him frustrated and disappointed. Where had all , the guardian angel crap they'd fed him in catechism gone to? He'd seen no angels, seraphim, archangels or pearly gates. No one to show him the ropes now that he was dead. What the hell was he supposed to do?

Life falls apart. We try to get a grip and hold it together. And then we realize we don't want to hold it together.

The young woman was a window waiting to be climbed through. A window that she guessed was a little broken anyway.

That night, in the deep heat of Greece, devoured by mosquitoes and reminiscences, I was thinking about all the doors I had closed in my life and what it would have taken to keep them ajar.

We have travelled a long distance from the cow with a bucket of raw milk under its udder. We are a long way from home.' This

I had lost my job. I was no longer officially a minor historian. Perhaps I was history itself, flailing around in a number of directions, sometimes all of them at the same time.

I wanted my whole life so far to slip away with the rolling waves, to begin a different kind of life. But I didn't know what that meant or how to get to it

We were doing everything we could to avoid the moment we would both go our separate ways.

She was not ready to go home and start imitating someone she used to be.

That was the old composition and I had walked out of that world. I had literally walked off the stage.

It was almost as if she was still the bewildred girl of fourteen who wasn't ready to be an adult.

A vida muda num instante.

IT'S 1996; MY father is eighty-eight. I arrive for a visit at their Westchester condo. My mother greets me at the door. After we've hugged and kissed, my father appears at the end of the hallway. It's taken him longer to rise from his chair. He isn't carrying the cane he finally agreed to use after his last fall. He stumbles, but the wall catches him. Something inside me rebels: who stole my father and put this old man in his place?

Uncle Edisto always said, "Every ending is a new beginning.

Trecutul s?rut? viitorul

Once you have started with mowing as a form of communication, it is hard to move on from there.

You're not mutation, you are evolution.

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.