Quotes About Transformation

Suddenly, as if by the fiat of a wicked fairy, he had been utterly dispossessed.

But I have, I suppose, become through the power of love, awful, relentless.

All was movement, all was change, and somehow this was visible and yet unimaginable.

All that had seemed impossible, too late, a dream, had suddenly become possible, even natural and inevitable.

The apparent scene is slowly falling to pieces revealing the reality behind.

Louise was a jewel locked away; and after the first 'if only' period had passed and Clement had got used to 'Mrs Anderson', he felt that his love for her had not faded, but had suffered a sea change into something special and unique, causing a special and unique and much valued, pain.

She felt above all, as a sort of categorical imperative, the desire to set Hannah free, to smash up all her eerie magical surroundings, to let the fresh air in at last; even if the result should be some dreadful suffering.

They haven't been standing still in the past.

The mysterious awful changes which alter the human face from youth to age may gently dally and delay, then act decisively all at once.

You can't go through the looking-glass without getting cut. You know that now, don't you?

I must have been changing though, and becoming, though I didn't know it, what I am now. I can't have become all this, and there's really a lot of it, in a few days, can I?

Now, for the first time, he's seeing that there really is a way out of this, and it's all so simple. You don't have to run away. You just meet somebody special and step sideways into a parallel universe.

Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.

Sex generally makes them intae real relationships, or ends them. Ye go backwards or forwards after shagging, but maintaining the status quo is difficult.

we're not human any more. We've slipped out of our skins like lizards, shedding not just our pasts, but our futures.

but ah'm hugging Janey and thinking about how much a life can change in the time it takes tae fix up.

No pasa nada..., se pondrá bien..., saben lo que hacen..., se pondrá bien.» Y sé que no es cierto, pero abrazo a Janey y pienso en lo mucho que puede llegar a cambiar una vida en lo que tarda uno en meterse un pico.

Franco's voice is something tae hear, it's like wi it bein Hogmanay, he's absorbed just the right amount ay alcohol n good vibes and they intersect at this wonderous vector as he briefly becomes something else, this force ay grace and soul.

She could find no emotional connection though, between the her of now and the her of then

When the patronising cunt left, ah missed him. He nearly took us oot ay masel. It wis like auld times, but in a sense, that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed. Something hud happened. Junk hud happened. Whether ah lived wi it, died wi it, or lived withoot it, ah knew that things could never be the same again.

Just lay it doon ... Renton whispers, looking at the zombie faces of his friends, trying to fight off the notion that besets him; we're not human any more. We've slipped out of our skins like lizards, shedding not just our pasts, but our futures. We're shadows.

Changelessness is decay. A paradox. There is no decay without a change for the worse. Changelessness is a change for the worse

Victories over ingrained patterns of thought are not won in a day or a year.

you can't just move backward. You can't push the chicken back into the egg, wine back into the grape, the boy back into the womb. If you want the baby to let go of your watch, you don't just try to explain that he ought to do it—you offer him something he would rather have.