Quotes About Metamorphosis

Once you are a butterfly, you can really love – the kind of love that makes a new life. It's better than all the hugging caterpillars can do.

Switch the direction your past is sending you. Soon enough, it becomes a different past.

Si vede che la conversione trasforma anche i tratti del viso oltre a quelli dell'anima.

Religious conversion evidently transforms not just the soul but also facial appearances.

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And we shall all be changed in the twinkling of an eye.

And yet, just because a story was a certain way didn't mean it would always be like that: stories took their old shape with them and fused it with the new shape. She didn't understand yet how all the tangles of their lives would sort themselves out in her story, but she supposed it would be like raking: not every bit of earth would be untangled at once.

All landscapes eventually turn to land, the gold of the imagination to the lead of reality

energy is the only truly universal currency, and nothing (from galactic rotations to ephemeral insect lives) can take place without its transformations.

No Prefect of Police believes that a cat can turn into a lion; nevertheless the thing happens...

At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The phases of this change were numerous and successive.

You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of heaven. It was necessary to begin there.

Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul.

Police chiefs don't think a cat can possibly turn into a lion; and yet, it happens.

The convict was transfigured into Christ.

The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its intermittences, exceptions and faults, the march from evil to good, from the unjust to the just, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the beginning, the angel at the end." Volume V, Book I, Chapter XX This

In six months the little girl had become a young woman; that was all. Nothing is more common than this phenomenon. There is a moment when girls bloom in a twinkling, and become roses all at once. Yesterday we left them children, today we find them disturbing. She had not only grown; she had become idealized. As three April days are enough for certain trees to put on a covering of flowers, six months had been enough for her to put on a mantle of beauty. Her April had come.

He renamed her, just like that, turned her into a different woman.

If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

When a caterpillar changes into a butterfly it loses it's caterpillar life.

And then the swelling thing burst. There was, to Damon, a palpable if not audible crack as the stone encasing his soul burst open and a great piece fell away.

if I take much more, you will begin to change. And

Fjärilar skola veta att dö medan solen skiner.

An idea fell like a seed and over the next weeks it went on growing like a fig vine lush and conquering twining round her old beliefs and covering them in new growth until they were as invisible as a tiger in a thicket and just as deadly.