Quotes About Transition

Something Rich and Strange She was less of what she had been, the blue rubbed from her eyes, flesh freed from the chandelier of bone. He touched what once had been a hand. The river whispered to him that it would not be long now.

Pemberton felt something shift inside him, something small but definite, the way a knob's slight twist allowed a door to swing wide open.

But after a career of dissipation she seems delighted to settle down.

It matters greatly not only that we birth and die but how we birth and die.

The reform that is needed is not anti-capitalist, anti-American, or even deep environmentalist; it is simply the transition from short-term to long-term thinking.

Cuando un muerto se va, se lleva consigo su mundo.

Hay un momento en que todo viaje se convierte en una pesadilla»;

Era ese momento de la alta madrugada en el que la noche está a punto de rendirse al día y hay un tiempo que parece estar fuera del tiempo. Un instante de pura eternidad.

Cuando vives a dos el mundo se adapta a ese ruido, a ese ritmo, a esos perfiles, y la súbita ausencia del otro desencadena un cataclismo en el paisaje.

La vida es un pequeño espacio de luz entre dos nostalgias: la de lo que aún no has vivido y la de lo que ya no vas a poder vivir.

Y también que sigo viviendo sin consuelo y que no sé en qué me convertiré ni cómo soportaré la tarea que me queda.

Morir es parte de la vida, no de la muerte: hay que vivir la muerte. Doctora Iona Heath

She appeared to be ageless the type that would continue, unchanging, until she was an old woman when she would suddenly become senile and die

Life, for both of us, can never be the same as it was, but it can be different; and you have proved to me that it can be good.

It was going to be all right. There were to be no histrionics. For this deliverance Olivia was deeply grateful, but she felt sad too, because it is always sad when someone you have known as a child finally grows up, and you know that they will never be truly young again.

The past is another country, but the journey could be made.

Which was strange, like watching a tangle of loose threads unravel and plait themselves into a single braided cord, stretching ahead into the future.

I feel old and finished. I'm nearly thirty now.

The past is another country.

Life is just a series of good-byes, isn't it? People move in and out of our lives, they go on to new places, sometimes they die.

Los puertorriqueños estaban acostumbrados a transitar de isla en isla y de continente en continente como aves cuya condición natural era tránsito.

Things are only white for a bit.' Emilie

towards Irma, seemingly burning or giving away every last item that had belonged to him?

and Pao Yi was reminded that the inclination of almost every living thing is to cling on, to remain where it is, but that his own inclination -his own nature- suspended him always in a kind of no-man's-land between remaining and leaving.