Quotes About Transition

they had not come home, but had left one familiar place of painful memory for another strange place with none. The

And my seven-year-old world humpty-dumptied, never to be put back together again.

There is a time in every man's life when he must push off from the wharf of safety into the sea of chance.

Maya Angelou @DrMayaAngelou Our Summer's gone The golden days are through The rosy dawn I used to wait with you Has turned to gray My life has turned to blue.- Maya Angelou's poem with Nancy Wilson's song My Life Has Turned To Blue. We send our deepest condolences to the family of #NancyWilson

Now they seemed not ready to give up the old school, the familiar paths and classrooms.

I don't think she understood half of what she was saying herself, but, after all, girls have to giggle, and after being a woman for three years I was about to become a girl.

Last year changed its seasons subtly, stripped its sultry winds for the reds of dying leaves, let gelid drips of winter ice melt onto a warming earth and urged the dormant bulbs to brave the pain of spring. We, loving, above the whim of time, did not notice. Alone. I remember now.

we begin to stop in order simply to begin again.

If you keep gathering those reins, lass, you and the horse are going to end up back where you came from.

Nothing in my years in the army prepared me for having a baby," Sam said wearily. "It's not for pussies, that's for sure.

When small people start casting big shadows it is time for sunset.

Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

What did that mean? Where could it go? He was a death diety. I was a high school senior.

Everyone wants to believe that there's something else – something great – waiting for them on the other side. Paradise. Valhalla. Heaven. Their next – hopefully less horrible – life.

I'm not going to tell anybody, not even Lilly. Lilly would NOT understand. NOBODY would understand. Because nobody I know has ever been in this situation before. Nobody ever went to bed one night as one person and then woke up the next morning to find out that she was somebody completely different.

And that's that as you get older, you lose things, things you don't necessarily want to lose.

So there I was, sitting on the plane in a black leather motorcycle jacket, seeing these palm trees through the window as we landed. And I thought, Great. Black leather and palm trees. Already I'm fitting in, just like I knew I would... ...Not.

My prom life is over. And so, I am afraid, is my life.

I opened the door and went inside, calling I'm home! Except that I wasn't, really. Because home meant something else to me now, and had for quite awhile. And he didn't live there anymore.

Every war has turning points and every person too.

And so I'll let you go, and let it be. Whatever

still Class 3T? Or are we Class 3G now?

I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.

life is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be