Quotes About Transition

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

I majored in nursing. I had to drop it. I ran out of milk.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

Draußen verwässert erstes Morgenlicht das satte Nachtschwarz des Himmels. Es ist der Moment, in dem Gestern zu Morgen wird und es für eine kurze Zeit kein Heute gibt.

Eigentlich gehörte sie zu einer Generation, deren turnschuh-tragenden und Sushi-essenden Vertretern schon der Besitz einer Hauskatze als unerträgliche Verantwortung erschien. "Haus bauen, Baum pflanzen, Kind zeugen" war kein Glücksrezept mehr, sondern eine Horrorvision. Die Ewigpubertierenden wollten sich alles offen halten und wunderten sich dann über Orientierungslosigkeit.

Am Anfang war das Wort, am Ende das Ding.

Meine Füße, tastend beim ersten Kontakt mit bosnischem Boden: Alles klar. Trägt.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

It's funny isn't it, how everything's changing all time. Nothing stays still.

Some things get lost others return. That is how it is: the way of things.

Change & transformation. That kind of magic.

El padre es el techo, la madre el suelo, y cuando ambos desaparecen uno siente que también ha iniciado la cuenta atrás y que ya no tiene sujeción alguna, quedando suspendido en el aire.

Shamas sentía un nudo en la garganta y hacía esfuerzos para no llorar. Pensaba que si lo hacía se reirían de él, puesto que ya estaba cerca de ser un hombre.

Creo que hemos llegado al final. Siempre hay que saber cuándo llega ese momento y aceptarlo. ¿No lo cree así?

Changes can only come gradually and slowly.... (In a letter from Empress Frederick to the future Queen Sophie of Greece)

It was funny, he reflected later, how one's life could alter in an instant, how one minute everything could be a certain way, and the next it's simply ... not

He wondered if everyone's lives had a dividing point. A moment which sat clearly between before and after.

Get yourself a dress and get yourself some flowers, because, sweetheart, you're getting yourself a new name.

His life as he knew it was over.

And then one day, everything changed. It was funny, he reflected later, how one's life could alter in an instant, how one minute everything could be a certain way, and the next it's simply…not.

You must make a change. Choose a new course." "Indeed." Maybe there would be sandwiches. He could eat about forty of those ridiculous little ones with the crusts cut off right then.

Things are different now," she said firmly, hoping to put an end to the subject. "You can't compare the two.