Quotes About Metamorphosis

I glanced at Alex and stifled a shriek. While I wasn't looking, he'd transformed into a large timber wolf. Do you have to turn into animals behind my back? I asked. Alex barred his fangs in a canine grin.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

The city atmosphere certainly has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman.

To have been always what I am; and so changed from what I was

It was awful. It was, like, walk out to the woods, Change, stand there until enough time passed, Change back. It was about as much fun as taking a shit. Nice analogy.

se quedó asombrado ante el desconocido en que se había convertido.

thought, the world will never be quite the same.

y eso le hacía sentirse un hombre nuevo, una criatura diferente, un ave del cielo.

I recreate myself; that is my only power.

As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster.

Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

Even a man who's pure in heart And says his prayers by night, May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms And the autumn moon is bright.

The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.

I wish I were a rock,' he said, and he became a rock.

Time changes everything, including the soul of a face.

Even ordinary people like us, we also need the tools for transformation.

in fact the only thing that really matters is inner transformation.

Moldenke would remain.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

You need a backbone to enter the Church of the Serpents. You need to have the guts to shed your old skin and undergo a metamorphosis. What are you capable of becoming? What transformation lies ahead of you?

She burst into snakes.

With every new moment, he was no longer the man he'd been the moment before.

Desire is perpetual transformation.

I felt in this new adventure I was rousing to life again. I was a butterfly, newly emerged from the chrysalis, damp winged and trembling with expectation.