Quotes About Transition

it's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes.

Returning from the dead used to be something I did well I began asking why I began forgetting how

She found herself stepping into ritual as if into a pair of stone shoes.

But when you cross over the border, it is like passing through air, you wouldn't know you'd done it; as the trees on both sides of it are the same.

she was beginning to emerge from the initial sex-induced coma created by him through

I don't think I've ever changed clothes so fast in my life, but once I got the silver dress off and those clothes on I began to feel more like myself.

But once you've climbed a ladder, what use is it? You kick it away, if you don't intend to go down it again.

When you are sad it is best to change the subject.

was the age at which parents suddenly transform from people who know everything into people who know nothing.

I was the age at which parents suddenly transform from people who know everything into people who know nothing.

Jack quit his advertising job and devoted himself to the life of the pen. Or rather, to the life of the Remington, soon to be replaced with an IBM Selectric, with the bouncing ball that let you change the typeface. Now that was cool!

So instead she's sitting remembering how much she can no longer remember, of who she used to be, who she thought she would turn into when she grew up.

I believe in effort, but not in unnecessary effort: Aunt Vidala was most likely negotiating her exit from this world all on her own.

Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn?

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.

Mourning is a river that carries us to joy. Sometimes we need to give space for grief in order to make room for joy.

The age of heroes had truly passed, and Tisamenus could not be one even if he burned for it. A great bronze wall had been erected around those old heroes, it descended from the sky, and no one could lift it or trespass there. Each age bestowed its own glory, but the age of my grandson could not be the age of Menelaus.

It was late that night before Anne and I met again. She seemed the same as always. Thus do changes of great moment disguise themselves as no change at all.

She was a woman now and youth was gone.

For when Philippe, with his snapping eyes and his wild ways, left Savannah forever, he took with him the glow that was in Ellen's heart and left for the bandy-legged little Irishman who married her only a gentle shell.

There's nothing worse than a barbecue turned into an indoor picnic.

Ellen was the audience before which the blustering drama of Gerald O'Hara had been played. Now the curtain had been rung down forever, the footlights dimmed and the audience suddenly vanished, while the stunned old actor remained on his empty stage, waiting for his cues.

She was seeing things with new eyes for, somewhere along the long road to Tara, she had left her girlhood behind her. She was no longer plastic clay, yielding imprint to each new experience. The clay had hardened, some time in this indeterminate day which had lasted a thousand years. Tonight was the last time she would ever be ministered to as a child. She was a woman now and youth was gone.

Marriage was bad enough, but to be widowed-oh, then life was over forever!