Quotes About Transition

My two great loves. I think I always knew I would be Belly Fisher one day. I just didn't know it was going to happen like this.

When I used to picture forever, it was always with the same boy. In my dreams, my future was set. A sure thing. This isn't the way I'd pictured it. … The future is unclear. But it's still mine.

It snuck up on me—growing up, I mean.

Things weren't the same with us, not right away, and maybe not ever. We were growing up. We were still figuring out how to be in each other's lives without being everything to each other.

Gone had come to mean something different, in a way that is hadn't used to. Something permanent.

There are moments in every girl's life that are bigger than we know at the time. When you look back, you say, that was one of those life-changing, fork-in-the-road moments and I didn't even see it coming. I had no idea.

And then I had a thought, clear as day. I would never be somebody's favorite again. I would never be a kid again, not in the same way. That was all over now. She was really gone.

People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they're not. - Lara Jean

I hate change more than almost anything.

I could make him mine. But I don't want him. I want someone else. It feels strange to have spent so much time wishing for something, for someone, and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.

You'll just do what you did before he was your boyfriend," Alicia says. "You'll go about your day, and you will miss him at first, but over time it will ease. It will lessen." She reaches out, touches her papery hand to my cheek. A smile plays at her lips. "All you need is time, and you, little one, have all the time in the world.

I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on

Your house is lovely," I say, even though it isn't. It's old; it could use a good cleaning. But the things inside it are lovely. "It's empty now. All my things sold up. Can't take it with you, you know." "You mean when you die?" I whisper. He glares at me. "No. I mean to the nursing home.

Growing up really is bittersweet.

It's New Year's Eve, after all. The night for new beginnings.

Josh and I started out so easy, so fun, and now we're like strangers. I'll never have that person back, who I knew better than anyone and who knew me so well.

It occurred to me that I was going to have to make the most of this summer, really make it count, in case there wasn't another one quite like it. I was getting older too. Things couldn't stay the same forever.

You'll go about your day, and you will miss him at first, but over time it will ease. It will lessen.

Things can't stay the same forever, Annemarie. People change; they grow up. That's the way it's supposed to happen.

It feels strange to have spent so much time wishing for something, for someone, and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.

Love is scary: it changes; it can go away.

Pack light and figure the rest out as you go

Just like that, it was over. It was over before I even had a chance.

I thought I was over him. When I wrote my letter, when I said my goodbyes, I mean it, I swear I did. It wasn´t even that hard, not really.