Quotes About Metamorphosis

There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them in the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility, their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl.

Cuando los zapatos aprietan, buena señal. Algo cambia ahí, algo que nos muestra, que sordamente nos pone, nos plantea. Por eso los monstruos son tan populares y los diarios se extasían con los terneros bicéfalos. ¡Qué oportunidades, qué esbozo de un gran salto hacia lo otro!

E depois de fazer tudo o que fazem, os dois se levantam, tomam banho, passam talco, passam perfume, se penteiam, se vestem, e assim vão voltando progressivamente a ser o que não são.

Now I am an axolotl.

the squares on your abdomen have been reabsorbed, like tiny islands in a rising sea of lard.

What was childhood if not a passage from light to dark, of the soul's slow drowning in an ocean of ordinary matter? During

Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond.

How are you?" Rosa shrugged her shoulders. "My sister turned into a giant snake last night. And your cousin Tano—" "Second cousin." "He was there too. He was a tiger. I recognized him from his eyes. Then I fainted." She looked at him. "How does that sound?

Somewhere in the last few months, it's like someone has flicked a switch and he's gone from "cute looking boy" to "muscular sexy man" just like that.", Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow

People don't change.' 'People change entirely,' I said. 'Look at Narcissus. Became a flower. I call that change.

Why grateful? Because sometimes you know you're standing on a cusp, and you know that in knowing it you've gone past the cusp over to the other side, or at least almost entirely so, entirely except for one toe that still hangs on to childhood; one toe or one finger or one shoulder blade curving back to meet another shoulder blade which curves forward to meet yours in a reminder that, if you had wings, this, right here, is where they would sprout

Things mutate, thoughts and emotions, they mutate inside you in ways you aren't even aware of.

No matter how many times you are reborn... it won't be the same you.

You get so used to going to MetLife and then going right to the Giant locker room and now you go left to the Jet locker room and that's a little weird - not anymore, but it was at first.

I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.

By the time I left ESPN in 2003, 'SportsCenter' had become a far different show than the one I initially joined in 1996.

Fortunately, also, that very night the wolfish English summer discarded its lamb-skins.

Nous sommes comme les glaces, dit Manuel à voix basse. La vie nous fait parfois chavirer et nous change de forme.

Of course, of course. Mr. Buzzby, did it ever occur to you that a god may live, figuratively, a dog's life?' 'Eh?' 'Gods are transfigured, you know. They go up in smoke, as it were. In smoke and flame. They become pure flame, pure spirit, creatures with no visible body.' ("A Visitor From Egypt")

Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

Nothing will ever be the same again.

Every time I turn around, it seems the world has changed somehow.

A man can be reforged.