Quotes About Transformation

The clouds in his face clear away instantly, and he is sunny and bright again.

Come back. Be the you I love and remember.

It feels strange to have spent so much time wishing for something, for someone, and then one day, suddenly, to just stop. I

The thing is, Susannah was right. It was a summer I'd never, ever forget. It was the summer everything began. It was the summer I turned pretty. Because for the first time, I felt it. Pretty, I mean. Every summer up to this one, I believed it'd be different. Life would be different. And that summer, it finally was. I was.

Things are ending, but they are beginning, too.

From ingredients to an actual dessert. It's like magic. Poof, deliciousness.

The place changed while I wasn't looking.

Like snow globes, you shake them up, and for a moment everything is upside down and glitter everywhere and it's just like magic—but then it all settles and goes back to where it's supposed to be. Things have a way of settling back.

We decided to leave the past in the past. The future was where we were headed.

It felt like the world was ending and nothing would ever be the same again. It was, and it wouldn't.

it's like getting a body scrub, and you stand up feeling exfoliated and not in a good way.

Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt. -Margery Williams

I guess that's part of growing up, too—saying good-bye to the things you used to love.

My whole life was measured in summers.

Celia braided my hair before she left for Margaret's house, and she even let me borrow her raspberry lip gloss. With Celia helping me, I felt like Cinderella getting ready for her big night on the town. I think I look pretty good.

You're both growing and changing and it's hard to grow and change at the same rate.

I never knew it before, but I think maybe all this time I've been invisible. Just someone who was there. Now that people think I'm Peter Kavinsky's girlfriend, they're wondering about me. Like, why? What about me made Peter like me? What do I have? What makes me so special? I would be wondering too. I am now a Mysterious Girl. Before I was just a Quiet Girl. But becoming Peter's girlfriend has elevated me to Mysterious Girl.

Yo también estaba creciendo. Las cosas no podían seguir igual para siempre.

Sometimes I don't think about her at all, and then...and then sometimes I'll have a thought like, I wonder what she would think of me now? She only knew me as a little girl, and now I'm a teenager, and I wonder, if she saw me on the street, would she recognize me?

Acho que agora consigo ver a diferença entre amar alguém de longe e amar de perto. Quando você convive com a pessoa, vê quem ela é de verdade, e ela também vê você. E Peter me vê. Ele me vê, e eu o vejo. O amor é assustador; ele se transforma; ele murcha. Faz parte do risco.

Alla människor är med om saker som är större än man förstår just då. När man tittar tillbaka säger man: "Det där var ett ögonblick som förändrade mitt liv, ett avgörande ögonblick, men det förstod jag inte då. Jag hade ingen aning.

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Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it was even exactly what you needed.

I wasn't the same person I was eight months ago, and that was okay with me. Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it was even exactly what you needed.