Quotes About Transformation

A month ago, Rowan would have denied that he could ever become such a monster, but now he wasn't so sure. The pressure to surrender was greater every day. He had to hope that if Volta had never truly surrendered to the darkness, then maybe he might stand a chance as well.

L'immortalité nous a transformés en personnages de dessins animés.

Nous sommes devenus contre nature à partir du moment où nous avons conquis la mort

Correction must be about lifting one up from one's poor choices and prior deeds.

The world is full of bad ideas that turn into wonderful things.

But life can never be the same after a year of training to be a scythe

Humankind must be pushed out of the nest if it is ever to grow beyond its current state.

Perhaps… but you can't deny this is a turning point in your life, and every turning point must be marked by an event—one that burns itself into you as indelibly as a brand.

You can't deny this is a turning point in your life, and every turning point must be marked by an event-- one that burns itself into you as indelibly as a brand.

Don't you see, Lev? you can save yourself. You can be anyone you want to be now.

You can be anyone you want to be now...

Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas Fucking Edison.

L'orage rajeunit les fleurs

When I was young I lived a constant storm, Though now and then the brilliant suns shot through, So in my garden few red fruits were born, The rain and thunder had so much to do. - The Enemy

The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

as I walked through the modern Carrousel.° The old Paris is gone. A town's complexion, like human hearts, never stays put at all.

L'idée que l'homme se fait du beau s'imprime dans tout son ajustement, chiffonne ou roidit son habit, arrondit ou aligne son geste, et même pénètre subtilement, à la longue, les traits de son visage. L'homme finit par ressembler à ce qu'il voudrait être.

The Alchemy of Grief

Cette vie est un hôpital où chaque malade est possédé du désir de changer de lit.

Tu m'as donné ta boue et j'en ai fait de l'or

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.

When you clean up a city, you destroy it.

as the spirit wanes the form appears