Quotes About Transition

We do keep looking ahead to things as if they'd finish something, but when we get to them, they don't finish anything. They're just part of going on.

For the first time she was vaguely perceiving that life is everlasting movement. Youth really believes what is running water to be a permanent crystallization and sees time fixed to a point...

He used to be a German, but he completely recovered.

Une sortie, c'est une entrée que l'on prend dans l'autre sens.

People don't change. Things do.

Á l'endroit où les fleuves se jettent dans la mer, il se forme une barre difficile á franchir, et de grands remous écumeux où dansent les épaves. Entre la nuit du dehors et la lumière de la lampe, les souvenirs refluaient de l'obscurité, se heurtaient a la clarté et, tantôt immergés, tantôt apparents, montraient leurs ventres blancs et leurs dos argentés.

He was unafraid of death, understanding it was only the seamless moment that takes you to somewhere else.

To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

Happily ever after never happens in the second act.

Autumn, when it came, slipped in through a side door and suddenly was just there, like a guest who'd arrived early for a party.

Amazon isn't happening to the book business," he likes to say to authors and journalists. "The future is happening to the book business.")

precipitously,

Do you just go back to your regularly scheduled life now?" Broome asked. "Has this been cleansing for you? Did it give you everything you need?

An awkward impasse. No one knew exactly how to say good-bye. A wave? A handshake? A kiss?

Gavin said, "I don't like it." "In another lifetime," Hester said, "I'll care, really. I'll shed tears. But for now, shush and depart.

I love you, Terese. I always will." Something changed. I could see it in her body language. A stiffening of the spine maybe. The best friend was slipping away. An adversary was coming to the surface.

Megan looked into Agnes's frightened face. Agnes had been so sharp just a few years back—funny and cutting and wonderfully ribald.

But Javier was so happy when Theo got in. Me, I was worried for Theo. How do you fit in at a place like that when you come from a place like this? It's almost like, I don't know, what do they call it when scuba divers come up too fast? The bends. It felt like that to me. I didn't say anything though. I'm not stupid. I could see what an opportunity this could be for Theo. You know what I mean?" "Yes, of course." "So

Growing up, she'd decided, was never easy. Adolescence is a war zone, no matter where you live.

He was no longer a child, barely an adolescent, really, moving too hard and too fast into adulthood.

We were broken down into groups of six—mine featured three incoming freshmen and three upperclassmen who had just moved to town. "One

You move forward in life. You may give the old you a nod every once in a while, but the old you is gone and not coming back. That was often a good thing.

Frank Ache stopped. He sniffled, used a once-giant hand to wipe his face. His receding hairline was gone now, though big tufts stayed on the side. His dark olive skin was now the gray of a city street after a rainstorm. "What

He stood on the stoop and watched them walk down the path. Corinne hit the minivan's remote, and the back yawned open like a giant mouth. Thomas tossed his bag into the back and took the front passenger seat. The mouth closed, swallowing the equipment whole. Corinne gave him a wave. He waved back. He