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Quotes About Transformation

The acid of fury ran through him, eating away the brute patience and sluggishness that had made a cipher of Gully Foyle, precipitating a chain of reactions that would make an infernal machine of Gully Foyle. He was dedicated.
~ Alfred Bester
This is Armageddon…Flowering Monstrosity. Tell me what you see." "There's
~ Alfred Bester
eÄŸer bir adam?n topluma kar?? gelecek yeteneÄŸi ve cesareti varsa, o, kesinlikle ortalaman?n üzerinde demektir. onu durdurmak istersiniz. onu düzeltir ve daha deÄŸerli bir hale dönüÅŸtürürsünüz, kazand?r?rs?n?z. ondan kim vazgeçebilir? bunu yapmay? yeterince sürdürürseniz, geriye sadece koyunlar kal?r.
~ Alfred Bester
So, in five seconds, he was born, he lived and he died. After thirty years of existence and six months of torture, Gully Foyle, the stereotype Common Man was no more. The key turned in the lock of his soul and the door was opened. What emerged expunged the Common Man for ever.
~ Alfred Bester
Christ Almighty! To see yourself... face to face.,. The clothes were on fire. Did you see that? What in God's name was it?' 'It was Gully Foyle,' Robin said, 'burning in hell.
~ Alfred Bester
The absolutely highest stage of intercourse with God is the indwelling of the Holy Ghost in the New Testament Church, when man's individuality is not superseded nor suppressed, but transformed, and thus conformed to Him in spiritual fellowship.
~ Alfred Edersheim
I can't forget what it's done to you. I've been thinking of nothing else since it happened. It's gone forever, that funny young, lost look I loved won't ever come back. I killed that when I told you about Rebecca. It's gone. In a few hours, you've grown so much older.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
He that builds a city, and does not intend it should increase, commits as great an absurdity, as if he should desire his child might ever continue under the same weakness in which he is born. If it do not grow, it must pine and perish; for in this world nothing is permanent; that which does not grow better will grow worse.
~ Algernon Sidney
Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.
~ Ali Smith
Magdala came to the
~ Alice Camille
I didn't want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.
~ Alice Hoffman
Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power.
~ Alice Hoffman
I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
~ Alice Hoffman
Anything whole can be broken," Isabelle told her. "And anything broken can be put back together again. That is the meaning of Abracadabra. I create what I speak.
~ Alice Hoffman
I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.
~ Alice Hoffman
The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.
~ Alice Hoffman
A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.
~ Alice Hoffman
For love changes everything and forces us into lives we never imagined we might lead
~ Alice Hoffman
What is broken can also be mended.
~ Alice Hoffman
Life all happened so quickly; people tell you it will, but you won't believe it until it happens to you. Cry all you want, being young will slip through your hands and you will be left standing there, you who were once so young, not recognizing yourself or your life.
~ Alice Hoffman
When you change your name you change your fate as well.
~ Alice Hoffman
I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
~ Alice Hoffman
She was remembering everything. How love could change a person, how it could cause you the greatest sorrow or shelter you from harm.
~ Alice Hoffman
I didn't understand that when I closed myself to her, I took a part of her bitterness inside me. It was green and unforgiving, and as it grew it made me more like her. It gave me my strength, but it gave me my weakness as well.
~ Alice Hoffman