Quotes About Metamorphosis

How am I chang'd! Alas, how am I grown A frightful spectre to myself unknown! For

I smiled half a smile at her puppy antics, wondering what it would be like to be able to join her, to shed my human skin and the confines that went with it and just live in the moment as a wolf. What would I look like with four legs and fur—would I be light-colored like Katie, or a darker timber, like Dev? I wondered if I would be velvet black with ice-blue eyes, like Chase.

If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?

It's not moving on, Libbs. It's moving differently. That's all it is. Different life. Different world. Different rules. We don't ever leave that old world behind. We just create a new one.

In the sudden change that had come over her heart she no longer recognized herself

There were no signs of the ruffian he used to be. Only his eyes, I noticed, were still full of fire.

So from the mould Scarlet and Gold Many a Bulb will rise -- Hidden away, cunningly, From sagacious eyes. So from Cocoon Many a Worm Leap so Highland gay, Peasants like me -- Peasants like Thee, Gaze perplexedly!

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

No, I mean everything feels different, but it's because I'm different.

Alice says she can't explain herself because she's not herself, she knows who she was this morning but she changed several times since then.

ugly duckling turned into a swan!

Without going into details, let's just say that there wasn't much left besides horns and hooves.

Je ogen. Ze zijn veranderd. Je hebt nu één blauw oog en één hazelnootbruin.' Artemis glimlachte. 'Jij ook. Die zijn tijdens de overgang verwisseld.

You have changed. Once upon a time, Artemis Fowl would have vowed revenge." "Once upon a time.

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

we shed the skins of who we used to be!

everything, every speck of dust, every drop of water continue to exist eternally, albeit in different forms, except for my soul?

Mountains fall. Deserts bloom. Oceans turn to sand.

"Know thyself" — a maxim as pernicious as it is odious. A person observing himself would arrest his own development. Any caterpillar who tried to "know himself" would never become a butterfly.

Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

Mi chiedevo com'era possibile che le persone più vicine mi cambiassero davanti in modo così improvviso, senza che io avessi avuto nemmeno il tempo di capire che c'era una trasformazione nell'aria.

Dragonflies signify new beginnings and new unions…sometimes marriage.

Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.

Everything burns if it is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.