Quotes About Transition

She's gone. Been gone for ages. They split up right after you left. That's why the grass out front started growing again. He's got a new girlfriend? she said quietly. Thank god. You must be happy. Yeah. He does. It's a relief. She's a lot nicer. But then, your average angry snake is nicer than Fiona. I'm sure she's happier wherever she is now, burning orphans or whatever she does with her time.

Well, what now? You have no job. I have no job. Wanna play Jenga?

Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.

New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.

Once skin touched tile and part of her soul died, she knew what slippers were for.

Pumpkins were the watermelons of fall.

When the darkness came for Dottie, it was quick and it was total.

Things change. Never act is if situations won't change

Sometimes you have to leave the fucking Shire, Frodo.

And then the surface beneath us just went away

The sky was white instead of the crazy pink of the night before.

Why was her life over when she was only seventeen? She'd peaked. It was done.

What you don't realize at the time is that you're not seeing the full picture, You don't think about the fact that things will change. Things always change.

Unlike before, when everyone was listening, now there was a dance breaking out and David was doing this weird smirk and Janelle, Vi, and Nate looked vaguely uncomfortable. You know when your moment is over.

In the transition to statism, every infringement of human rights has begun with a given right's least attractive practitioners

All growth demands destruction.

one moves step by step and one must keep moving.

No formal criterion or 'definition' should obscure the fact that the early state did not emerge full blown and in a clear-cut form. Its formation was a process rather than a one-time event, which regularly took generations and centuries to unfold.

Going away isn't going to help as much as you think. The memory stays with you, and the stain. It's not something you slough off once you leave.

Our patents' old age shocks us in the same manner that our children's growth to maturity does , but without the joy.

You get a strange feeling when you leave a place, like you'll not only miss the people you love, but you miss the person you are at this time and place because you'll never be the same again

Life in the Islamic Republic was as capricious as the month of April, when short periods of sunshine will suddenly give way to showers and storms.

Uno di quei crepuscoli di mezza stagione, quando per un attimo l'aria pare condensare in sé estate e autunno.

things will never stay the same.