Quotes About Transformation

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

He [Ma's Tooth] was part of her a minute ago but now he's not. Just a thing.

Once I was a stupid girl; now I am an angry woman.

No, I mean everything feels different, but it's because I'm different.

That night my new skin was red silk, shivering in the breeze.

Alice says she can't explain herself because she's not herself, she knows who she was this morning but she changed several times since then.

Nursing was like being under a spell: you went in very young and came out older than any span of years could make you.

Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head.

A veces estaría bien volver a hacerse pequeño y a veces grande, igual que Alicia.

What's wrong with you, girl, that you would make yourself over again?

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened

How could anyone bear to be a parent? Like contracting to love a werewolf.

It's like he has emotional amnesia... I think you have to accept that the person you knew isn't there at the moment. I was witness to how much he loved you. I have the photos. This isn't the person we knew. I don't recognize this person. He's shed his skin. Her heart is broken too. She has to say the thing that will give me back my life. She draws on every reserve. I see how much it hurts her and it hurts me too. I came from her joy and her pain, I lived in it and I live in it now.

a small spark can start a great fire

Prayer does change things.

Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire

ugly duckling turned into a swan!

La relación de unas cosas con otras iba borrando, poco a poco, las cosas. Versos sin palabras. Formas sin figuras. No bien partía un barco de oro de la orilla cuando ya no era orilla ni barco ni partía.

I want you to know, my dear friend, that without you, I would not be the person I am today. He leaned in close and whispered, I was a broken boy, and you fixed me. Thank you.

The boy who kidnapped Holly Short all those years ago would never have entertained the notion of sacrificing himself. But he was no longer that boy. His parents were restored to him, and he had brothers. And dear friends. Something else Artemis had never anticipated.

There is always a use for everything, Victor had told him. Even pain.

Without going into details, let's just say that there wasn't much left besides horns and hooves.

The new shell has already grown, and Shelly will get rid of the old one by igniting a layer of methane cells and blasting it off." Holly wanted to be sure she understood what was being said. "So you're saying that Shelly is going to light a fart?" "No, Shelly is going to light the fart. He has stored enough methane to power Haven for a year. There hasn't been a fart like this since the last dwarf tribal gathering.

Beckett placed the spectacles on his face. "Look at me," he said. "I'm Myles Fowl. The vortex of the quadrangle is deteriorating my underpants." And he was gone, back-flipping to earth and scampering across the garden like a boy who had been raised by beasts.