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Quotes About Transition

Keyifli ÅŸeyler bittiÄŸinde her zaman üzülürüm. Arkas?ndan daga keyifli ÅŸeyler de gelebilir ama asla emin olamazs?n?z. Ve çoÄŸunlukla da daha keyifli olmaz. En az?ndan benim tecrübelerim öyle.
~ L.M. Montgomery
It can't be very pleasant getting used to living - no pleasanter than getting used to stopping it.
~ L.M. Montgomery
They were all there, squatted in the little open glade—Faith and Una, Jerry and Carl, Jem and Walter, Nan and Di, and Mary Vance. They had been having a special celebration, for it would be Jem's last evening in Rainbow Valley. On the morrow he would leave for Charlottetown to attend Queen's Academy. Their charmed circle would be broken; and, in spite of the jollity of their little festival, there was a hint of sorrow in every gay young heart.
~ L.M. Montgomery
When she came to the end of one life it must not be to face the next with the shrinking terror of something wholly different — something for which accustomed thought and ideal and aspiration had unfitted her. The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Marilla, walking home one late April evening from an Aid meeting, realized that the winter was over and gone with the thrill of delight that spring never fails to bring to the oldest and saddest as well as to the youngest and merriest.
~ L.M. Montgomery
the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop, and that hurts.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I'm glad and I'm sorry. I'm sorry because this drive has been so pleasant and I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure. And it's so often the case that it isn't pleasanter. That has been my experience anyhow.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I'm always so sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it?
~ L.M. Montgomery
Oh, Mar—Marilla," chattered Anne, "I'll b-b-be contt-tented with c-c-commonplace places after this.
~ L.M. Montgomery
But finally the day began to realize that she was growing old. Then a sort of pensiveness fell over her which dimmed yet intensified it; sharp angles, glittering points, melted away into curves and enticing gleams. The white harbour put on soft grays and pinks; the far-away hills turned amethyst.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Art?k gerçekleÅŸmeyen hayaller için yas tutmuyordu.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Aunt Elizabeth, said Katherine one day, does anybody ever die in Harbour Hill? Because it doesn't seem to me it would be any change for them if they did.
~ L.M. Montgomery
How horrible it is that people have to grow up!
~ L.M.Montgomery
My mother had to leave many traditions behind and the more time passed, the more they mattered to her.
~ Laila Lalami
Sometimes there's no way around it—you have to let people go. But again you do it as constructively as you can.
~ Larry Bossidy
Jake, you're a dern grasshopper," Augustus said. "You ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today you're talking California.
~ Larry McMurtry
Now there was a crack, a kind of canyon, between the Woodrow Call sitting with Teresa on the train and the Woodrow Call who had made the campfire that morning and saddled his horse. The crack was permanent, the canyon deep. He could not get across it, back to himself. His last moments as himself had been spent casually—making a campfire, drinking coffee, saddling a horse.
~ Larry McMurtry
For a time Dish lost all sense of what life was about. He even lost the sense that he was a cowboy, the strongest sense he had to work with. He was just a fellow with a glass in his hand, whose life had suddenly turned to mud. The day before he had been a top hand, but what did that mean anymore?
~ Larry McMurtry
The best to do with a death was to move on from it.
~ Larry McMurtry
He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.
~ Larry McMurtry
In fact, July felt he had reached a point in his life where virtually nothing was known.
~ Larry McMurtry
Well, we've never had a divorce in our family, Aurora said, but if we have to have one, Tomas is a good place to start.
~ Larry McMurtry
It struck her that endings were never as you would expect them to be.
~ Larry McMurtry