If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing.
Franz KafkaTags: franz-kafka metamorphosis
I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. I wanted that eye extinguished so that I might have a chance to know my own body, my own desires. I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard - and in order to forget.
Henry MillerTags: reflect alone desires forget yawn metamorphosis candlelight caves leviathan
When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have looked upon a single phrase, it is irretrievably altered. It has become a book that can be read, that no longer belongs to its maker. It has acquired, in a sense, free will. It will make its journey through the world and there is no longer anything the author can do about it. Even he, as he looks at its sentences, reads them differently now that they can be read by others. They look like different sentences. The book has gone out into the world and the world has remade it.
Salman RushdieTags: perception reading books writing authors publishing metamorphosis books-and-authors books-and-reading published-books
We really are little book whores,aren't we?Not just in the number of books that we read,but the number of guys we are in love with.
Erin NoelleTags: metamorphosis
A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.
Neil GaimanTags: change story metamorphosis
A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.
Mandy HaleTags: loneliness alone seasons isolation transition lonely aloneness positive-thinking single butterfly singleness metamorphosis being-alone caterpillar single-life seasons-of-life being-single the-single-woman single-woman becoming-who-you-re-meant-to-be
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