Quotes About Transition

That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good.

At the same time, though, I was beginning to wonder if this was just how it was supposed to be for me, like perhaps I wasn't capable of having that many people in my life at any one time. My mom turned up, Nate walked away, one door opening as another clicked shut.

Harder to get in than out, like so little else.

Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.

That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.

My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as well. These months she'd been gone, I felt like I'd been floating, loose and boundaryless, but now that I knew where she was, I kept waiting for a kind of certainty to kick in. It didn't. Instead, I was more unsure than ever, stuck between this new life and the one I'd left behind.

A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.

In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.

But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More and more, though, I was finding myself wanting to find out what happened in the end..

This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own.

I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out. So what happened? I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all

Welcome to adulthood, she said. It sucks as much as high school.

That was just it. You never knew what lay ahead; the future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything. One minute you're walking through a dark woods, alone, and then the landscape shifts, and you see it. Something wondrous and unexpected, almost magical, that you never would have found had you not kept going. Like a new friend who feels like an old one, or a memory you'll never forget. Maybe even a carousel.

It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.

It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well.

Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.

What happened to goodbye?

I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall apart and see options instead of endings.

I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.

So much had happened that morning. Yet it was this image, this moment, that i kept going back to hours later, after we'd made it safely to the walkway and gone our separate ways to classes. How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if i fell, at least i wouldn't do it alone.

Once, I was easy. Now, I was choosy. See? Big difference.

Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on without me. And again I felt that emptiness rise up, but pushed it away. Still, I lingered there, in the doorway, memorizing the noise. The moment. Tucking it away out of sight, to be remembered when I needed it most.

I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.

Just wait a second. We can't leave it like this. But this too, wasn't true. Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.