Quotes About Transformation

Y tienes que saber que no cambiamos con el paso del tiempo; somos como flores que se abren; simplemente nos convertimos más y más en nosotros mismos.

You see, sometimes, Alex, we have to lose things to learn compassion. And sometimes we are overcome by change that arrives with some measure of violence, but leaves us transformed for the better.

She would have been gorgeous if someone had thrown her into a waterfall and held her there for half an hour and I told her so silently.

You stare at anything long enough and suddenly it looks monstrous." She had in fact turned away from him to stare at the bowl of flowers in the middle of the table. Old tea roses, falling to pieces amid the baby's breath and fern and purple zinnias. And they did look absolutely alien, these things, the way that insects always do, and sort of horrible! What were these things, really?

Those clothes. Impossible. I mean, tomorrow night, as they say in the twentieth century, you will lose that sweater and those pants.

My last sunrise,' said the vampire. 'That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise.

Making him to be my mate, I made a mirror who saw me all the more clearly as a monster.

Right before my eyes he was seemingly as solid as I was; and then I felt the tingling all through my limbs as he merged with me, and the tiny stabs on my hands and my neck and my face. I struggled as if I were caught in a perfect net.

He sat relaxed, one knee up, arms folded, face clear one moment in a flash of flame and pale the next. He was soiled all over, and seemed rather limp and in a strange misery of ease. His expression was neither bitter nor sarcastic, only thoughtful-fixed with an enduring expression just as the faces on the mosaics were fixed as they bore lifeless witness to the same events.

I saw him in human guise, dancing for humans, as if he were one of them. I smiled in my sleep, as I saw the modern world enfold him, unbelieving, amused, and dancing to his own rhythms.

Even to the young who look me, it is a difficult realization that they might become as pale and hard as I am.

Don't be afraid, child, not even for a moment. You'll die now to live forever, as I take your blood and give it back to you. I won't let you slip away.

Out of the darkness and bitter earth of the monastery, Amadeo came into the light.

none of us really changes over time; we only become more fully what we are.

Lei non e' sempre stato un vampiro, vero? attacco'. No rispose l'altro. Avevo venticinque anni quando lo divvenni: era il 1791.

I went through mortal life like a blind man groping from solid object to solid obhect. It was only when I became a vampire that I respected for the first time all of life. I never saw a living, pulsing human being until I was a vampire; I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over my lips, my hands!

It was as if the terrible battle was over. He had confessed his wrath and it was gone, and he sat still and simple near the fire, the warrior no longer. Such was the magic of words, he thought.

You squirm on the end of a hook, you're a doomed catch from the sea, and you do not even know that you are no longer in the life-sustaining water.

He came towards Maharet, staring intently at her, at her smooth face which now bore no trace whatever of human life, the florid human eyes seemingly set within a sculpture.

Rome swallowed things and made them Roman.

She felt herself turning inward, away from all of it, back into the darkness, into the dark water whence she'd come.

los escritores siempre encuentran la forma de «redimirse de cualquier cosa que les haya pasado».

His face flushed for an instant. It lost the preternatural whiteness and he seemed a young man of twenty-four-with sharply defined and beautiful features and gaunt well-modeled cheeks.

Things were happening too fast. My earlier judgments were shaken, and the beauty of Amadeo grew with each passing night.