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Quotes About Transformation

Much travel is needed before a raw man is ripened. Arab
~ Tahir Shah
the more you look at anger, the more it disappears beneath one's very eyes, like the frost melting under the morning sun. When one genuinely looks at it, it suddenly loses its strength.
~ Tal Ben-Shahar
A crow may put on human shape or crow shape, but we remain crows," he replied firmly. "Hawks, too, are the same, whether they are born in human nests or hawk ones. The nestlings must always be protected. Since you have chosen to protect these, I and mine will protect you.
~ Tamora Pierce
I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.
~ Tamora Pierce
You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching.
~ Tamora Pierce
As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger. -Numair Salmalin
~ Tamora Pierce
Hello, he greeted her cheerfully. You must be Alan of Trebond. You're very hardy to have made it this far the first day. Has anyone said what we try to learn in here? Alanna said the first thing that came to her lips. The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time.
~ Tamora Pierce
The sands drift always, yet the desert remains the same.
~ Tamora Pierce
Inside I am a beautiful woman,' Okha said... 'The Trickster tapped me in my mother's womb and placed me in this man's shell.
~ Tamora Pierce
It occurred to Keth for the first time that perhaps magic wasn't simply a matter of fires, lightning, and power in the air, if spoken words could also create such a transformation.
~ Tamora Pierce
Magelet, one thing I have learned is that humans cling to their first knowledge of you, particularly if they have no experience of you once you've changed.
~ Tamora Pierce
He is a horse who will burn and bloat and explode in the sun. Put him back in the oven and let him cook until he's done.
~ Tamora Pierce
she had changed in the smoke and the fear and the dark
~ Tamora Pierce
Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine
~ Tanith Lee
Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
~ Tanith Lee
He sang. The robot sang. He sang into my veins where my blood had been and where instead the notes and throbbing of the guitar now flowed. I could feel his song vibrating in my throat, as if I sang it too. I couldn't see him. If the crowd parted and I saw him, I would die.
~ Tanith Lee
But be sure, the age of Innocence was ended.
~ Tanith Lee
She was strangely different. Not actually in any way he [her father] might have feared. Rather, she seemed more sure, quieter, more still, more absorbent, more favorably aware of them [her family] than ever in the past.
~ Tanith Lee
I saw Volkhavaar who calls himself Kernik, he of the purple and the nails, with his pretty dragon, too.
~ Tanith Lee
Oh beautiful flower," she mocked him, "to see you grow and burst your bonds.
~ Tanith Lee
My felicitations," he said himself aloud, and in Mercurio's tones. "You have got away.
~ Tanith Lee
She had been impervious, and like all impervious things, it had taken, at the correct moment, only one look, one dream, to break in the bolted door.
~ Tanith Lee
Life viewed from nine different camera angles; life played at nine tempos. Mixed, montaged; multiple. In the course of one lifetime. Maybe that's what reincarnation was all about. Reinvention.
~ Tanuja Desai Hidier
Safe from what? she'd asked. And under her touch, Kovar's kigh had answered, Change.
~ Tanya Huff