Quotes About Transition

Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

Perfect preservation isn't life, it's death.

Once, she had been her parents' daughter. Then great, unlucky Ias's wife. Her children's mother. At the last, her mother's keeper. Well, I am none of these things now. Who am I, when I am not surrounded by the walls of my life?

I always thought my parents could fix anything. Now it's my turn. Dear God, how did this happen?

In my experience, milady, we can never get back to exactly where we started, no matter how hard we try.

Achievement is devastating, or at least disorienting, and they don't warn you in advance. It's the sudden change of momentum and direction, I think.

It wasn't fair, for people to go and change on him, while his back was turned being dead. To change without giving notice, or even asking permission.

Los capitanes vienen y van, pero las administraciones viven eternamente

Well, Ista, said the Voice. Do you stay or go? You cannot hang forever in My doorway like a cat, you know.

I spent a career fighting the powers-that-be. Now I am them. Naturally, I was a little confused.

But you come to the end of yourself, and time runs on, and leaves you. Her years with Tien had

How could I have died and gone to hell without noticing the transition?

I think I was fourteen before I found out that Ivan wasn't your middle name.' Miles cut himself off. That-idiot-Ivan was beginning a lifetime of Imperial service tomorrow.

Suddenly what to do with the rest of my life and what shirt to wear became equally daunting decisions.

How could I have managed to lose my husband, my job, my house, and my ass all in one year?

The only thing worse than being widowed is being widowed and single.

I've decided it's important to love the life you get and somehow learn to let go of the life you dreamed of.

Understand this, a hospital is a gateway between the living and the dead. We've all had things happen to us here.

If you try going silver and don't like it, you are just one box of hair color or one salon appointment away from dyeing it back again.

Every day is a new day and you've got to just go with the flow.

I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.

Amber was past tense. We were covering her inanimate face in the white sheet of was.

We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.