Quotes About Transformation

Do you want. To fix it up? Live here?" "Maybe. Or maybe we'll burn it down and rebuild. Ashes make great soil.

Love rips the shit out of you and puts you back together like a broken toy, with all kinds of cracks and jagged edges. It's not about the falling in love. It's about the landing

I feel like Dorothy, back in Kansas, a black-and-white girl in a black-and-white world, with memories in color.

She hadn't known until now how love could erupt into existence like the big bang theory and change everything in you and everything in the world.

The true voyage of self-discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. —MARCEL PROUST

In real life, she saw, it wasn't like that. It was sadness opening up inside of you, changing how you saw the world.

One kiss can change a girl's world.

Time. Hers had gone too fast. She'd only just discovered who she was.

she realized that the landscape of a woman's soul could change as quickly as a world at war.

Someone said to me once that Alaska didn't create character; it revealed it.

In the past days, she'd come to understand the importance of upheaval. The tallest mountains were created by violence and chaos; like them, a woman's independence was born of fire.

He renamed her, just like that, turned her into a different woman.

As I write, I am reminded of that passage from the Bible—the one that is read at every wedding: "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child." Now, I understand as an adult. Maybe for the first time in my life. This article would break my mother's heart, and perhaps even worse, her spirit. That didn't matter to me a week ago; in fact, I wanted to hurt her then. My only excuse: then I was a child.

She knew suddenly that a woman could change her whole life and uproot her existence with one choice.

Si algo he aprendido en mi larga vida es esto: en el amor descubrimos quiénes queremos ser; en la guerra descubrimos quiénes somos.

New words for an old, never realized hope.

It doesn't do any good to hide out in life, Mia. That's how you used to handle things. You're stronger now.

Instead of fixing himself, he drank and made himself worse, but the man he became was not the man he was

D'un tratto capì che una donna poteva cambiare tutta la propria vita e sradicare la propria esistenza con una sola scelta".

Cuando este la besó, algo se abrió en el interior dolorido y vacío del corazón de Isabelle, se desplegó. Por primera vez entendió las novelas románticas; se dio cuenta de que el paisaje del alma de una mujer podía cambiar con la misma velocidad que un mundo en guerra.

Myl?dami sužinome, kokie norime b?ti, kariaudami suvokiame, kokie esame.

We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention. Lately

When she was little, Elizabeth had often cried when her mama's favorite flowers wilted and died. Now, though, as a woman full grown, she understood the importance of rest. It was the very bleakness of winter that made spring possible.

People who have lost themselves in the dark woods of ordinary life, who have been betrayed by loved ones and forgotten how to be led by dreams.