Quotes about Transformation

I take responsibility for the man I used to be, for I carry him with me. As strong as I am, he's a heavy burden

You once said that just as anything whole can be broken, anything broken can be put back together again.

Lately, she's been wondering if perhaps when the living become the dead they leave an empty space behind, a hollow no one else can fill.

She did believe in one thing, something so vast and deep she couldn't bring herself to tell John, even though it was probably safe to confide in someone she would never see again. She believed that people could lose themselves.

She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me.

Loss does different things to different people. Some fall apart. Some, like the Finder, rebuild. I have done both. I have crawled under my table and refused to come out. I have covered myself with thorns and tattoos. I have planted a garden, reached out to my neighbors, begun to write down my story.

Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power. To this end, the book was the most powerful element of all.

And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be.

The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.

How do we make new and restorative of soul the old pain? How do we learn to carry with grace and humor all that has happened to us?

When we have changed everything we will eat congratulations with our tea.

Hope to sin only in the service of waking up.