Quotes About Transition

You could become friends again, after some time has passed.' But it wouldn't be the same, I know that. You'd always be mourning what once was. It would always be a little bit less.

Ours was the kind of friendship that makes sense as a kid but not so much now that we're older. I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.

maybe it's good to exist in a place of unsureness for a while.

There's an air of things closing down. Teachers wear shorts and T-shirts to class. They show movies while they clean out their desks. Nobody has the energy to care anymore. We're all just counting down, passing time.

Goodbye doesn't have to be forever.

I think maybe I'm just tired of all this. This in-betweenness of being somebody's girlfriend but not really.

I know we'll never be friends again, and I've made my peace with it.

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Ideals are replaced by conventional goals at a certain age.

THE FOND OLD COUPLE WAS DISAPPEARING TOGETHER THROUGH SUCCESSIVE AMPUTATIONS.

Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it was even exactly what you needed.

It wasn't like I was expecting Senior year to be some amazing experience. If anything, I was prepared for it to be pretty much a letdown. Everyone would be looking ahead to college and getting sick of seeing the same faces we've been looking at for the last three years.

I wasn't the same person I was eight months ago, and that was okay with me. Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it was even exactly what you needed.

There is a time between being a wife and being a divorcée, but no good word for it. Maybe say what a politician might say. Stateless person. Yes, stateless.

Your people have finally fallen into history, he said. The rest of us are already here.

My friend met me at the diner for coffee. His family fled Iran one week before the Shah fell. He didn't want to talk about the hum. I pressed him though. Your people have finally fallen into history, he said. The rest of us are already here. …

Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad.

The car makes a clicking sound as it moves across the wooden slats. Then there is nothing beneath us and we fall. The windows fill with water, mud, leaves. The car floats.

Those who live move.

But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

When I do retire, I know for a fact that I'll never be able to replace the incredible feeling I get when I'm driving an F1 car.

Overnight,' according to Moshe Dayan's close ally Shimon Peres, 'the leadership

I don't change. The things around me change.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.