Quotes About Metamorphosis

I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out.

Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it's a whole different thing. You can't even predict it. I've seen women who were nightmare party girls, who were just crazy, and then they have a baby, and this thing comes over them and changes them.

I prefer the new me a million times more over than the old one.

Everything changes every day.

The dead can't change, but you can.

I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.

I think the deepest level of our freedom is being able to change our identity.

This is just not the Democratic Party we used to know.

So that he seemed to depart not from life, but from one home to another.

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

Even if you're not in a new place every day and not in the music industry, your tastes in music and fashion and everything are going to change drastically between 16 and 21.

Jez had gone from an evil twin to a sweet, even angelic, girl, all in less than a minute.

You start out with one thing, endup with another, and nothing'slike it used to be, not even the future.

Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

A buddha is the butterfly that finally emerges from the cocoon of the human life-form. (p. 63)

There must, at a certain point, be a transformation. If not, there is no art.

Change Yourself from within, Little by Little

He was not as she remembered. His features were the same, but his face was hard. Blue ice made his eyes. The bloody rips in his coat and breeches, the blood on his face, seemed to suit that face.

Everything changed, with time.

The slightest alteration can cause dramatic changes. That's what happened to you. The damage was physical. It's as though blocks were rearranged, the physical structure no longer what it was.

He is capable of turning everything into anything--snow into skin, skin into blossoms, blossoms into sugar, sugar into powder, and powder back into little drifts of snow--for all that matters to him, apparently, is to make things into what they are not, which is doubtless proof that he cannot stand being anywhere for long, wherever he happens to be.

Oh, she thought, how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

When weeds go to heaven, I suppose they will be flowers.

I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles.