Quotes About Transition

one day she'll wake up like nothing ever happened, and everything'll go back to normal.

Becoming a different person might be hard, but taking on a different name is a cinch.

Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is.

It's strange, isn't it? No matter how quiet and conformist a person's life seems, there's always a time in the past when they reached an impasse. A time when they went a little crazy.

People are in constant motion, never stationary. No one knows what will happen next.

When the sun went down, and touches of blue filtered into the fading afterglow, an orange lamp would light up in the knob of the bell and slowly begin to revolve. The beacon always pinpointed the onset of nightfall exactly. Against the most gorgeous sunsets or in dim drizzling mist, the beacon was ever true to its appointed moment: that precise instant in the alchemy of light and dark when darkness tipped the scales.

All things pass. None of us can manage to hold on to anything.

After a certain length of time has passed, things harden up. Like cement hardening in a bucket. And we can't go back anymore.

Nothing stayed still. And time was lost. Behind me, time became dead grains of sand, which one after another gave way and vanished.

In our studies of managers, we have found that the difference between those who take the initiative and those who do not becomes particularly evident during phases of major change, when managerial work becomes relatively chaotic and unstructured.

Transformations often begin, and begin well, when an organization has a new head who is a good leader and who sees the need for a major change.

Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.

When she first left for college I told Walt, could you hand me a napkin, Amos? she'd be back within the year, and there were some touch-and-go moments, but mostly she just breezed right through.

Extinction has long since become a part of our lives.

No, you can just paint me walking into shadows.

Menopause isn't Cocoon. Sorry.

As in puberty,] There will be tears. And anger. And tragically unfortunate haircuts.

When you're a kid, if you watch 'The Jeffersons' with your family at seven o'clock, it seems like a natural phenomenon, like the sun setting. The universe is a strange, strange place when all of a sudden you can't use your glass with the Bionic Woman on it any more.

His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]

People gave you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, If this was the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with a million chickens on it. They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could. Marika was beckoning from the other side.

Linus Lucas was fourteen years old, a number that made the spoons fall right out of our mouths.

As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.

The cat looked at its paws and frantically back at its body, as if it had just been transformed into a cat and couldn't accept it.

I don't know why I was upset about not being an adult. It was right around the corner. Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.