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Quotes About Transformation

The courtyard kept changing, dazzling her with the flowers that bloomed between one day and the next, with the bare branches of trees that were swollen with the buds of new leaves and then fuzzed with green. Every day, she drove a familiar road through a new place.
~ Anne Bishop
My name is Hope Wolfsong," she whispered. "I am not cs821. Not anymore. Never again.
~ Anne Bishop
Despair made the deserts and hope shaped the oasis.
~ Anne Bishop
every living thing struggles to emerge from its cocoon or shell in order to be what it was meant to be.
~ Anne Bishop
Simon looked at his hands, which had grown furry. He snarled when he couldn't get them back to looking human, a sign that he was too agitated to wear this skin. Since he didn't want to scare off Heather, he did the sensible thing. He stripped off his clothes, shifted to Wolf, and went to the Liaison's Office to have a few minutes of playtime with Meg.
~ Anne Bishop
If someone had told him a few weeks ago that he would befriend a human and care enough to watch over her at night, he would have laughed his tail off.
~ Anne Bishop
Earth natives didn't absorb everything from the forms they had chosen over the long years the sun had risen and set over Namid. They were first and always terra indigene. But they learned from the predators they became, and certain traits were passed down to the young of each form. Yes
~ Anne Bishop
And if he looks to be a danger to Meg?" Simon snarled, revealing Wolf-size fangs. Fur sprang up on his chest and shoulders.
~ Anne Bishop
You weren't afraid of me when I was Wolf," he said. "Why are you afraid of Nathan?" "He's got big feet!" "What?" An insulted-sounding arrroooo came from the other side of the door, a reminder that Wolves also had big ears.
~ Anne Bishop
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
~ Anne Bradstreet
And time brings down what is both strong and tall.
~ Anne Bradstreet
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
~ Anne Carson
He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
~ Anne Carson
It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
~ Anne Carson
XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud
~ Anne Carson
Repent means "the pain again.
~ Anne Carson
From girl to woman to who I am now, from love to anger to this cold marrow, from fire to shelter to fire.
~ Anne Carson
Whenever I visit my mother I feel I am turning into Emily Brontë, my lonely life around me like a moor, my ungainly body stumping over the mud flats with a look of transformation that dies when I come into the kitchen door. What meat is it, Emily, we need?
~ Anne Carson
Kinds of water drown us. Kinds of water do not.
~ Anne Carson
A translator is someone trying to get in between a body and its shadow.
~ Anne Carson
Nothing is as it was before, after the screen has gone to black. Darkness lies on the soul. To use Beckett's phrase, "what cowers behind it begins to seep through." With her new shopping cart Hekabe, queen of Troy, will be prowling the aisled for dog biscuits.
~ Anne Carson
There is a moment when the water is not in one vessel nor in the other
~ Anne Carson
Proust Sonras? denen çöle bir kez ad?m at?nca, bu türden listeler yapmak bulabileceÄŸiniz en büyük eÄŸlenceler aras?nda.
~ Anne Carson
Az alámerülés az éj rohadt rubinjába a szabadság és a rossz logika versengésévé változott.
~ Anne Carson