Quotes About Metamorphosis

She was almost there. She could feel the weight of herself, the ponderousness of her body, the distant memories of the dawn of time when rock was molten and free. For the first time in her life she knew what it was like to have balconies.

It only takes a tweak to make the whole world new.

Oh, to be something else, yet still to be!

The cloud that was in the sky yesterday has not disappeared, it has become tea. It has not died, it is just playing hide and seek

I just adore Kate Winslet. I love her because you're never aware of all the stuff that's going into her characterization and, yet, she completely transforms.

Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.

Yesterday is skin on snake, to be shed many times.

I love re-creating myself. Change means you get to choose again. Become something new. -Dani

Abruptly, she knew that after this night she was never going to be the same again. Nothing was ever going to be the same. Oh, yes, the man could define himself as the dawning of an epoch if he wanted to. There was, quite simply, before Adam and after Adam.

Some of us are born more than once. Some of us re-create ourselves many times.

Criminally young, he charged, and I can't argue. But I can change.

Change is hard for most people. Not me. I love re-creating myself. Change means you get to choose again. Become something new.

Fire purifies and distills, he says. Fire transforms. You must remember that when the time comes it seems only to ravage and destroy.

But if it turns out that she really can adjust them from without? Reshuffle the deck of his past, leave a few cards out, sub in several from a sunnier suit, where was the harm in that? Harm had to be the opposite, didn't it? Letting the earliest truth metastasize into something that might kill you? The gangrenous spread of one day throughout the life span of a body— wasn't that something worth stopping?

It occurred to me that, given the life span of a moth, one kid's twitch must take a year to complete.

I love to watch times change!

Lost their stomachs, sealed up their anuses and adopted the autotroph way

The only constant was change.

It crumbled apart into ash, going from form to formlessness. To everything, it's season. The pine cone grew into being, burned bright, and now it had disappeared. That was natural.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

The metaphor of transformation deepens as we consider how a butterfly needs to struggle for its ability to fly. If the chrysalis is broken by someone in an attempt to help free the butterfly, its wings will be shriveled and immobile.

The past is falling to pieces like the beggar with his clown-clothes . . .

The heat of his night time fever was being brushed away entirely by the breeze as the light mists evaporated. The same process that was happening around him, was happening within him too. He was being reborn with the morning.

Evey day, there is less of me. Today I am thoughts without words. Tomorrow I will be a body without thoughts. And so it goes.