Quotes About Transition

There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life---real life---seems to exist at one remove.

moving on means we have to protect ourselves.

You're going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.

I can tell you the exact day I stopped being fearless.

She looked a bit like a different person. It was weird. Just a few weeks away from home could rub the familiarity right off of someone.

The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life- or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else's life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window- is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are.

what became clear as I sat on my plastic chair and drank my instant coffee was that I had somehow found myself on the other side. I had crossed a bridge. Their struggle was no longer my struggle. It wasn't that I would ever stop grieving for Will, or loving him, or missing him, but that my life seemed to have somehow landed back in the present.

So with the loss of my family as well as the man I had loved, every thread that had linked me to who I was had been abruptly cut. I felt as if I had simply floated off, untethered, to some unknown universe.

Spring arrived overnight, as if winter, like some unwanted guest, had abruptly shrugged its way into its coat and vanished, without saying good-bye.

It was a terrible thing to discover you no longer wanted the life that stretched out ahead of you.

You're having another unnervingly quiet day. What happened to 'chatty to the point of vaguely irritating'?

A primavera chegou durante a noite, como se o inverno fosse um hóspede indesejado que de repente resolveu vestir seu casaco e desaparecer sem se despedir. Tudo ficou mais verde, as ruas foram banhadas por um sol fraco, o ar agora perfumado. O dia tinha sinais florais e acolhedores, com trinados primaveris como fundo musical. Jojo Moyes - Como eu era antes de você

Ser atirada para dentro de uma vida totalmente diferente — ou, pelo menos, jogada com tanta força na vida de outra pessoa a ponto de parecer bater com a cara na janela dela — obriga a repensar sua ideia a respeito de quem você é. Ou sobre como os outros o veem.(Como eu era antes de você)

Te vas a sentir incómoda en tu nuevo mundo durante un tiempo. Siempre es extraño vernos fuera del lugar donde

You're going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone ... There is hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it like most of people do. Just live well, just live. - William Traynor to Louisa Clark

It was as if a light had gone on: the only way to avoid being left behind was to start moving.

Bilmiyorum... Sanki çörek yerine... donut olmu?sun gibi...

She stopped and turned to me, as if she had suddenly thought of something. "You know, you don't have to be sad just to stay connected to him." - page 273 "Hey Lou!" she yelled. "I meant to say to you. Moving on doesn't mean you loved my dad any less, you know. I'm pretty sure even he would tell you that." - page 300

Marveling at the 180 degree swings of life in general.

Be thrown into a new life (or at least thrown with sush force against the life of someone who is like squashed his face against the window) forces you to rethink who you are. Or what causes impression for others

Oh, my God, my darling, how did you survive this man? "I guess it's like the frog in boiling water, right?" Nisha says. "No marriage starts off bad. I guess by the time you realize how weird it's gotten you're up to your neck.

I'm dreading it," says Corinne. "Somehow thirty-one sounds like you might only be just past thirty, still almost technically in your twenties. Thirty-two sounds ominously close to thirty-five.

Kad te netko katapultira u posve nov život ili te bar gurne toliko snažno u tu?i život da se osjetiš kao da ti je lice priljubljeno uz tu?i prozor - prisiljen si ponovo razmisliti o tome tko si. Ili kako te drugi doživljavaju.

Per la prima volta mi chiesi se la mia vita - la vita di chiunque altro - sarebbe davvero rimasta la stessa.