Quotes About Transition

bouleversement and was hurrying into line with his generation.

the green and cream twilight faded, and the fire-red, gas-blue, ghost-green signs began to shine smokily through the tranquil rain.

I'm going to start being that. I don't like being twenty-two. I hate it more than anything in the world.

Americans were saying good-by in voices that mimicked the cadence of water running into a large old bathtub.

When a girl comes out, she needs all the attention.

There were days when Amory resented that life had changed from an even progress along a road stretching ever in sight, with the scenery merging and blending, into a succession of quick, unrelated scenes...

Es inevitablemente triste mirar con nuevos ojos cosas a las que ya hemos aplicado nuestra propia capacidad de enfoque.

As she crossed the threshold her face caught the room's last light and brought it outside with her.

Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

Kuigi alus, millele inimese käitumine toetub, võib olla nii kalju kui mädasoo, kaotab aluspõhi pärast teatava punkti ületamist minu silmis tähenduse.

He had passed visibly through two states and was entering upon a third. After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence. He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an over-wound clock.

It was Sunday -- not a day, but rather a gap between two other days.

Whatever worth while comes to you, won't be through the channels you were searching last year.

Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring.

Ours was a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken --

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

Like I say, it just creeps up on you. One day you're young and the next day your bosoms and your chin drops and you're wearing a rubber girdle. But you don't know you're old.

I'm too young to be old and too old to be young.

Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.

I'm too young to be old and too old to be young. I

It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train.

But while she had been busy raising her children, the world had left her behind.

Evelyn was forty-eight years old and she had gotten lost somewhere along the wa. Things had changed so fast. While she had been raising the required two children - a boy for him and a girl for me- the world had become a different kind of place, a place she didn't know at all.

When someone old dies, it is even sadder. First you notice that the paper doesn't come anymore, then gradually the lights are turned out, the gas turned off, the house gets locked up, and the yard is no longer kept up, then it goes on the market and new people come in and change everything. Elner