Quotes About Transformation

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.

You have to keep recycling yourself.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

Nothing is static. Everything is evolving. Everything is falling apart.

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go. Let go

Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.

I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.

and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.

Rip yourself open. Sew yourself shut.

Reread that Bronte book all you want, but Jane Eyre's never going to get gender-reassignment surgery or train to become a kick-ass ninja assassin.

Nothing is static.

Our way of get­ting nos­tal­gic for what we just threw in the trash, it's all be­cause we're afraid to evolve. Grow, change, lose weight, rein­vent our­selves. Adapt.

Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born.

You had a near life experience.

She'd lived through something the rest of them could never imagine. So much torture and horror that she didn't need to tell people about it. She'd never need drama or joy or pain ever again.

Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.

Sex reincarnated that good, pure girl, but as something else.

There isn't any real you in you, she says, Even your physical body, all your cells will be replaced within eight years.

What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?