transitional phase Quotes

It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically .

Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.

I'm 47 now, and I'm at that stage where I'm still young but I'm not young. I'm not old but I'm getting old, and I have stuff at home that reminds me of people and places.

Well, limbo is not a good place to be.

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

Youth is a mortal wound.

I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

I think Girls is so great, because versions of it are close to my own experience of moving to New York. It's a fun. You know - get to be messy and silly and irresponsible, but also wrap that up at the end of the day and be an adult. It's a fun time, but not necessarily one you want to stay in for too long.

Today's youth have been cast in a condition of liminal drift, with no way of knowing whether it is transitory or permanent.

Adolescents are travelers, far from home with no native land, neither children nor adults. They are jet-setters who fly from one country to another with amazing speed. Sometimes they are four years old, an hour later they are twenty-five. They don't really fit anywhere. There's a yearning for place, a search for solid ground.

We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.