Quotes About Transition

Here's to new blood." -Jagger Maxwell

Did the women feel like I was deserting them by deciding to live as the other gender? Maybe for Dad and Charlie, it didn't seem strange to want to be male, since that's what they were. But Mom and Laura—and, of course, Eve—acted like I was betraying them somehow. Would I have to give them up if I wasn't a girl anymore? I hoped not. I hoped that changing my gender wouldn't mean losing my entire past.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

Madeline, my wife, never used to wear a watch. She does now, I am told. For a long time, in a very inexact way, I had kept time for her. There was the time before we were married and the time after. There was the time before I was hospitalised and the time after. There was the time she needed me and the time after. And there is now.

Cuando te separas nunca tienes en cuenta la posibilidad de que al dejar lo mejor que has tenido hasta entonces, no tendrás nada mejor

What I used to be will pass away and then you'll see That all I want now is happiness for you and me

I didn't have a hard time making it, I had a hard time letting it go.

I found another girl to pose for Myrto and then I didn't think about Rafaela much, not until a spring day years later. Or rather, I thought about her with an occasional, impersonal pang. Have you ever had a favorite cafe close? It was like that.

There is a certain point—she has known this since her father-in-law's long battle with heart disease—when a person begins to die in earnest. There is a hollowness about them. They begin to retreat. She has seen this, and she knows.

He's not the same as you; he never was. I don't know why it's been so hard for you to see that. He lives in a different world than you do." Sadly he shook his head. "We're all living in a different world any more. I liked the old one better.

The boy in me will always love you," he said, disarming her with a smile. "The man I am doesn't know you yet." And now there was a look in his eyes that she recognized, that resonated deep within her.

Toward evening, Harriet found herself thinking the oddest thoughts: that twilight is not really dark. It's gray. The sun gone, the world turns gray, without emotion, without color. It seemed a fitting time for a little girl to slip free of all this pain, to let go.

can't do it while caught in this half-life!

Ese resol naranja de pájaros y jaulas. Ese momento casi hipnótico de desajuste cronológico en que dos mundos paralelos se superponen y por un instante se cruzan, sin reconocerse, inconsolables ambos, el primer empleado del día llevando una tartera y el último juerguista de la noche llevando una rosa teñida.

Esto, después de todo, no ha hecho más que terminar. Dentro de poco, si hay suerte, estaremos todos perdidos.

There's really no point in asking what if? The only question worth asking is: what's next?

You can send yourself crazy wondering. But it all happened, and here I am. There's really no point in asking what if? The only question worth asking is: what's next?

But once one's children had flown the nest, when one was no longer in control, one felt somehow left behind.

viejo aeropuerto de Barajas a la ciudad en un día de otoño.

I used to be disgusted. Now, I'm just amused...

Well, I used to be disgusted. Now I try to be amused.

I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused...

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

Death is a fact of life. That is to say, it is something that must be faced, encountered, accepted and tasted by all humans and living things someday, although it is unpalatable most especially to humans. But, never be bothered about it and never be afraid of it (death). For, it is nothing but life's change agent. That is it (period). -Emeasoba George