Quotes About Transition

For winter was coming.

Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn't giving up at all, it's growing up.

Death cures all ills. Well, most of them.

How do you introduce boyfriend C to boyfriend A after boyfriend A has been such a good sport, of late, about boyfriend B, who is no longer in the picture?

I was learning that happily-ever-after was the beginning of the next chapter, not the end of the story.

Because to gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have courage; without it, you can't make the leap.

Grief isn't a neat series of stages. You can jump around in the stages, you can get stuck at one point or the other, and you even get to revisit stages you've already finished. Grief isn't a neat, orderly kind of thing. It's messy, and it sucks.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. Joseph Campbell

And here's something else I learned: you lose some people that way—fast and blinding. But some people inch away from you slowly, in barely discernible steps. In the end it almost doesn't matter. They're just as gone.

Death smashes a crater into your life, and you're left alone to sort through the rubble.

And here's something else I learned: you lose some people that way - fast and blinding. But some people inch away from you slowly, in barely discernible steps.

This was Hist and Lit, after all. If you couldn't work the term liminal into your tutorial, you were doing it wrong.

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If you don't like the teaching and you don't like the research – why are you doing this?" "Because it's what I thought I wanted six years ago." … Behind him, I could see my bookshelves, crammed with monographs and reference works, all the effluvia of the last six years. "If I don't do this, what do I do?"(437-438)

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I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.

Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it.

You're not dead, but you're not alive, either. You're a wintergirl.

It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.

I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown.

The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up.

Sometimes I think high school is one long hazing activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become and adult. I hope it's worth it.

I am an iceberg drifting toward the edge of the map.

Trying to figure out what you want to do, who you want to be, is messy as hell; the best anyone can hope for is to figure out the next step.