Quotes About Transformation

A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.

All day she had been dreaming of the comet, its wild and fiery beauty, what it might mean, how her life might change.

But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it when she saw it- and everything would change.

A film closed over the past as she spoke, a barrier as brittle and fragile as ice forming. It would grow and strengthen. It would become impenetrable, opaque.

she had only made things worse. His angry eyes met hers in the mirror, and she remembered his soft plump infant hand pressed against her cheek, his laughter trilling through the rooms. Another boy altogether, that child. Where had he gone?

The year was 1922, and the Curies had transformed plain earth into something rare and unimagined. A secret of the universe has been revealed, and a restless world dreamed of transformation. [p. 205]

I just couldn't do it- break all the rules. Blow everything up. The world doesn't end, Bree said quietly. Amazing, but it really doesn't.

car. Remembering her kneeling the dirt, planting morning glory seeds.

dirt, but the machine began to make

It was like standing on a threshold, a door in the world that would open into a place you'd never expected to be, a place from which you couldn't return. Welcome or unwelcome, knowledge was something you could never undo.

But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease. Ivy would say I was getting smarter, but I just felt…empty.

Rachel, you summon demons. You're good at it. Get over it, then find a way to make it work for you. It's not going to go away.

Inside Junior's it was peaceful. I can change that, I thought dryly

But a pawn could become a queen if she reached the end and came back again.

I don't want easy anymore. It's worthless and the shine doesn't last. But you already knew that.

I may be a pawn," I said as I locked my shaking knees. "But I've been to the other side and survived the trip back and can move like a queen." Pixy dust sifted over us, and my skin burned. "Don't piss me off.

Bowing my head, I took it - I didn't fight it, I took it - accepting it with a feeling of inevitability. It was as if a part of me had died, accepting that I couldn't be who I wanted, so I had to work at making who I was someone I could live with.

You're moved by love. That means everything. Take it from one who's lost all and then gained more.

I've changed." I didn't want to hear this. They never changed, they simply hid it better.

I don't know. She's much better already. She wasn't talking half an hour ago. Look at her now." We all turned, finding Ceri sobbing quietly and drinking her tea in small reverent sips as the pixy girls hovered over her. Three were plating her long, fair hair and another was singing to her.

Something in me hardened, and the last of my feelings for Nick died.

It was as if a part of me had died, accepting that I couldn't be who I wanted, so I had to work at making who I was someone I could live with.

Every day we wake up into a new world, each sleep causes yet another reincarnation.

I know." She sighed. "We'll all say that. We'll all go on and make the place safe. Roads, cities. New sky, new soil. Until it's all some kind of Siberia or Northwest Territories, and Mars will be gone and we'll be here, and we'll wonder why we feel so empty. Why when we look at the land we can never see anything but our own faces.