Quotes About Transition

In the space of a handful of nights, her whole concept of what a ship was underwent a sea-change.

You can't go back', she told him bluntly. Her voice was neither kind nor unkind. 'That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is 'supposed to be'.

I had moved on to another life. I could not expect the old one to be held ajar for me forever.

It was as it had to be. I had moved on to another life. I could not expect the old one to be held ajar for me forever.

I think I made a better boy than I do man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

Do not you sense it? A crossroads, a vertex, a vortex. All paths change from here.

Few things appeal so much to the heart of a man as a fresh start.

The most reasonable place to end a book is where the next story would begin.

But gone was gone and done was done, I told myself. And life would go on.

I had Hap still, I reminded myself, but on the heels of that thought I knew I did not. Hap was a young man striking out on his own. For me to cling to him now and make him the focus of my life would have been the act of a leech. So who was I, when I stood alone, stripped of all others? It was a difficult question. p. 449

A way out is a way in. Then

You can't go back," she told him bluntly. Her voice was neither kind nor unkind. "That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is 'supposed to be.' 

I closed the door softly behind him and then stood leaning against it as if I could hold the future out.

Change rained fast and furious on me for the next fortnight.

Hay un punto muerto en la noche, la hora más negra y fría, cuando el mundo se ha olvidado del atardecer y el alba no es todavía ninguna promesa. Un momento en que es demasiado pronto para levantarse, pero tan tarde que irse a la cama no tiene sentido.

My slow pulling away from him had been my resignation to his mortality. Truly

You can't go back," she told him bluntly. Her voice was neither kind nor unkind. "That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is 'supposed to be.

They had to grow and change. He told me that if the happy ending of the tale was just a return to how things had been at the beginning, well, what was the point of writing that story at all?

Something turned over in my heart.

Do not force me to look any longer at what I have become. Tell me instead what is to come.

Change is just a bend in the road, not the end of the road.

We needn't feel forced or pushed to move on before we're ready. Letting go of the way we hoped things would be is not an easy or overnight task. We will need to be patient with ourselves and throw out any timetable we had for how or when the grief would be complete.

I thought you should have a few days to get your bearings. You can begin work here on Monday." "That's very generous of you, sir, but I am willing to begin at once if I am needed." Roland waved away the comment. "Not necessary, Mr. Ludgrove. Monday will be soon enough." Jack nodded. Though my wife is expecting you to be our guest for supper your first night in Killdeer." "I wouldn't want to put her out, Mr. Everton." Jack stood.

Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.