Quotes about Transformation
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intercourse with God is the indwelling of the Holy Ghost in the New Testament Church, when man's individuality is not superseded nor suppressed, but transformed, and thus conformed to Him in spiritual fellowship.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 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
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
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
You're like the weird fucked-up sister of yourself, Shelby. Whereas I'm just an extension of my loser self that anyone could have foreseen. I have followed the path set out before me. You veered.
— Alice Hoffman
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
— Alice Hoffman
You once said that just as anything whole can be broken, anything broken can be put back together again.
— Alice Hoffman
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.
— Alice Hoffman
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.
— Alice Hoffman
She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me.
— Alice Hoffman