Quotes About Transformation

Every bottle a whiff of other times, other places; every one, from the commonest Liebfraumilch to imperious 1945 Veuve Clicquot, a humble miracle. Everyday magic, Joe called it. The transformation of base matter into stuff of dreams. Layman's alchemy.

I'm not myself, she offered, guiltily. She softened around Tik Tok, and when she did she was, for those rare moments, girlish. He smiled. You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right now that you don't like.

Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful

I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.

And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded

They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.

I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.

What if the puzzle of the world was a shape you didn't fit into? And the only way to survive was to mutilate yourself, carve away your corners, sand yourself down, modify yourself to fit? How come we haven't been able to change the puzzle instead?

It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It makes us feel like hell, and makes us walk on water. It ruins us for anything else.

she told me she'd be a phoenix. The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. They don't really exist. She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.

A jewel's just a rock put under enourmous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.

I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

People change, but only if you give them room to do it.

Each memory is like a paper flower stowed up a magician's sleeve: invisible one moment and then so substantial and florid the next I cannot imagine how it stayed hidden all this time. And like those paper flowers, once they've been let loose in the world, the memories are impossible to tuck away again.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore

Coal, with time and heat and pressure, will always become a diamond. But if you were freezing to death, which would you consider the gem?

until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.