Quotes About Metamorphosis

You have seen the world and read many books, but take it from me that a snake can cast its slough but not its poison

She was re-creating herself, shedding one skin for another.

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.

Those who wish to transform the world must be able to transform themselves.

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

Viajamos con las nuebes que se disgregan y oscurecen, cambiamos con ellas sin darnos cuenta, a tenor de su frágil dibujo condenado a la agonía antes de que nadie lo haya entendido...

Change is one of my favourite words.

Wait a minute, hold on... The dude dies, and the girl cries so hard that she gets turned into a fountain ?

Well, like, the screenplay is about the book, so, like, it's kind of the book, only in different form, like the way iced coffee is still coffee even though it's cold.

you're a butterfly and butterflies are free to fly, fly away, high away, bye-bye),

The basic formula for profound alchemical change is solve et coagula, which means: to first utterly dissolve (solve) an existing form and then to carefully bring the dissolved and purified elements together again (coagula) in a whole new, more potent and finely organized, permutation.

This life is not the same as your other life.

Who am I really? Am I still the same person if I'm not even technically a person anymore? Does being stronger make me different? Will it?

I turn back to the lake, stare at the ice slowly moving on the surface of the water. Pieces of the solid fall into the liquid, but it's all just water no matter what its form.

Some hours ago we had discovered a giant. Now we had discovered a man. The giant was the man, but being a man he could no longer be a giant. The man had undermined the giant.

There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.

My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.

A un sapo le salen alas y ya cree que es un dragón.

A toad grows wings and thinks he's a bloody dragon.

In those days, the smell of leather and blood had clung to him like perfume. Now it was perfume that clung to him like perfume,

I do. My time is done." Jaqen passed a hand down his face from forehead to chin, and where it went he changed. His cheeks grew fuller, his eyes closer; his nose hooked, a scar appeared on his right cheek where no scar had been before. And when he shook his head, his long straight hair, half red and half white, dissolved away to reveal a cap of tight black curls.

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

Sometimes—at the same time—I am a dinosaur, a fish, a bat, a bird, a single-celled organism swimming in the primordial soup, or the embryo of a mammal, sometimes I'm in a cave, sometimes in a womb, which is basically the same thing—a place protected (against time).