Quotes About Transformation

Of course, the bad scythes weren't all in the past. But instead of "bad" they were now called "innovative" and "forward-thinking.

The binary at last becoming the one.

Mountains are created by upheaval. I'm sure it doesn't look pretty at the time.

There's this thing in my head that I have to purge onto the page before it changes the shape of my brain.

He would have to adjust to a life without her, as well as a life without himself, for who was he now?

even the darkest moments of one's life can be turned around and shed light for others.

All his life there was only one thing Lec was allowed to believe. It had surrounded him, cocooned him, constricted him with the same stifling softness as the layers of insulation around him now. For the first time in his life, Lev feels those bounds around his soul begin to loosen.

Scythe Curie seemed a mix of many emotions, but she folded them all away, like clothes that no longer fit, and closed the drawer.

I guess once you start parting with all the things you think hold your life together, it's hard to stop—and then you find out your life holds together all by itself.

Hope is a terrible thing to lose. Sometimes that wounded space gets filled with scar tissue, bitter, ugly, and angry.

I thought you were someone else," she told him. "Someone named Gerald Van Der Gans. . . ." "My birth name," he told her. "A name I surrendered when I became Honorable Scythe Michael Faraday.

Mortals fantasized that love was eternal and its loss unimaginable. Now we know that neither is true. Love remained mortal, while we became eternal

You can be anyone you want to be now, Unwind (pg. 80)

Copper aspires to gold, and glass to a precious gem

We believe that flames are not meant to burn forever.

I will not tolerate childish pastimes or vapid communications with friends. Commitment to this life means leaving behind your old life as fully as possible. When, a year from now, I choose between you, the unchosen one can return to his or her former life easily enough. But for now, consider that life a part of your past.

Now there was a supply of anonymous parts for anyone who wanted them. And even if you didn't want younger hands or brighter eyes, there were advertisements everywhere to convince you that you did. 'A new you from the inside out!' the billboards said. 'Add fifty years to your life.' Sonia shakes her head bitterly. They created want...and want turned to need...and unwinding became woven into the fabric of everything.

He had to ask, because he knew he wasn't Rowan Damisch anymore—not just because his fake ID said "Ronald Daniels," but because the boy he had once been had died a sad and painful death during his apprenticeship. The child in him had been successfully purged. Did anyone mourn that child? he wondered.

Tú eres bueno en las grandes dificultades, y eres un capullo en la vida normal.

In the midst of their current helplessness, she felt empowered. How very strange.

For you nothing has changed." "Everything has changed, sir." "Perhaps everything will change again.

As he looked around at this boneyard of uselessness, Nick Slate had a simple idea. An idea that would not only change the direction of his life, but the very course of human existence. He would hold a garage sale.

Sorry, Pinocchio, but Risa's not your Blue Fairy. She can't turn you into a real boy.

Historically, fallen civilizations left behind ruins that vanished into the landscape, only to be rediscovered thousands of years later, becoming almost mystical in nature. But what happens to the institutions and edifices of a civilization that doesn't fall, but evolves beyond its own embarrassment?