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Quotes About Transformation

The pain of being treated like a mere object. And a sense that this pain would turn into pleasure.
~ Natsuo Kirino
Effort has nothing to do with the changes to structure and physiology that develop as a consequence of the intensification of individuation.
~ Natsuo Kirino
Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No--the soul of a man.
~ Neal Shusterman
I have become the monster of monsters, he thought as he watched it all burn. The butcher of lions. The executioner of eagles. Then
~ Neal Shusterman
the concept of the B seat, where one had to sit between two other passengers, had been eliminated along with other unpleasant things, like disease and government.
~ Neal Shusterman
His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory.
~ Neal Shusterman
B)ut when the time is right and the winds begin to change, even the deadest of dreams can be resurrected.
~ Neal Shusterman
Sometimes you have to be the monster to survive
~ Neal Shusterman
It comes with being sixteen, Mom said. You teenagers, you go into a cocoon when you turn fifteen and don't come out for years. So they become butterflies when they finally come out? my little sister Christina asked. No, Mom said. They're still caterpillars, only now they're big fat caterpillars that smell.
~ Neal Shusterman
I know this is your hand now,' she tells him. Roland would have never touched me like that. Connor smiles, and Risa takes a moment to look down at the shark on his wrist. It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No- the soul of a man.
~ Neal Shusterman
Wars have a way reinventing people. And making too many things disappear. -Sonia
~ Neal Shusterman
New Beginning to the same old story
~ Neal Shusterman
Marie couldn't help but smile. This girl whom she had not even wanted to take on in the first place had become her greatest supporter. Her truest friend.
~ Neal Shusterman
We are not the same beings we once were. So then, if we are no longer human, what are we?
~ Neal Shusterman
I vow to become the change that might have been.
~ Neal Shusterman
But life doesn't end," the smiling proponents of unwinding all insist. "It just transforms. We like to call it 'living in a divided state.'
~ Neal Shusterman
When you drop a pebble into a pond, ripples spread out, changing all the water in the pool. The ripples hit the shore and rebound, bumping into one another, breaking each other apart. In some small way, the pond is never the same again.
~ Neal Shusterman
Things pass. Even big things. And when they're far behind us, they don't look as big anymore.
~ Neal Shusterman
Connor smiles, and Risa takes a moment to look down at the shark on his wrist. It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No - the soul of a man.
~ Neal Shusterman
Had she lived, who knows what she might have done. Perhaps she could have changed the world and redeemed her family name. I choose to be Scythe Anastasia. I vow to become the change that might have been.
~ Neal Shusterman
Marie," she said, "it's finally happened." "What has, dear?" "I've stopped seeing myself as Citra Terranova," she said. "I've finally become Scythe Anastasia.
~ Neal Shusterman
Pain is weakness leaving the body." We
~ Neal Shusterman
We do, you know. Find ourselves. Although it's a little harder each time. Days pass. Weeks. Then we squeeze ourselves back into the skin of who we were before all this. We put the pieces back together and get on with things.
~ Neal Shusterman