Quotes About Transformation

You knew this would come. I cannot rot all my life underground, with nothing of my own.

The horse's muscular legs ended in flesh, the equally muscular torso of a man. I stared—at that impossible suture of horse and human, where smooth skin became a gleaming brown coat.

Es un arma, un asesino. No lo olvides. Puedes usar una lanza como cayado para los paseos, pero eso no va a cambiar su naturaleza.

Yara izlerini yok etmeyi önerdim. Ba??n? iki yana sallad?. "Kendimi nas?l tan?yaca??m?

I want to shatter the cold mask of stone that has slipped down over the boy I knew.

Is she unhappy? But he would have laughed at such a mewling question, and he would have been right to. My witchcraft, the island, my lion, all of them sprang from her transformation. There was no honesty in regretting what had given me my life.

When there is rot in the walls, there is only one remedy... Tear down, I thought. Tear down and build again

I saw then how I had changed. I did not mind anymore that I lost when we raced and I lost when we swam out to the rocks and I lost when we tossed spears or skipped

The sound flesh makes when it tears and re-forms and how, when you change a man, you may stop the transformation partway through, and then that monstrous, half-beast thing will die.

For a hundred generations, I had walked the world drowsy and dull, idle and at my ease. I left no prints, I did no deeds. Even those who had loved me a little did not care to stay. Then I learned that I could bend the world to my will, as a bow is bent for an arrow. I would have done that toil a thousand times to keep such power in my hands.

To release him from it and make him Achilles again.

Puoi usare una spada come un bastone da passeggio, tuttavia ciò non cambia la sua natura.

He was tired of living among ashes,

Je pensai : Je ne pourrai pas supporter ce monde un instant de plus. "Alors fabriques-en un autre, mon enfant.

But I had been a stranger to myself turned to stone for no reason I could name.

He regarded me a moment, in silence . "So?" Something in the way he spoke it drained the last of my anger from me. I had minded, once. But who was I now, to begrudge such a thing? As if he heard me, he smiled , and his face was like the sun .

Il peggio della mia codardia era stato smaltito, lasciando il posto a una frastornante esaltazione. Non me ne starò come un uccello in gabbia, pensai, troppo stordito per volare via anche con la porta aperta. Entrai in quel bosco e la mia vita ebbe inizio.

Zawistna ?mier? mia?a wyssa? z niego krew i sta? si? znów m?oda.

Dormido bajo aquella luminosidad tan tenue parecía diferente: hermoso pero frío. Me descubrí deseando que despertara para de ese modo poder contemplar cómo revivía.

But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it

I had changed since then. I had gained strength and size, and a beard that grew if I did not shave it away. But she was the same. Of course she was.

Motherhood seemed easy to me, before I had a child.

I'm always this color," I said. "Because I used to be made of stone.

his beautiful body lost to bones and gray ash.