John Boyne Quotes

I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.

What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71.

A home is a place in time. And no place stays the same after you finally grow up and leave it. No place can ever change as much as the person who grows up there.

With time, everything changes. I know I'm not the same person who I used to be. I totally get that.

You cannot have the same kind of character again and again in every season or every stage of your life. You change, people change.

I am not stagnating in one kind of an image.

Everything changes with time. I am not so experienced enough to analyze what the people love in me.

I'm not the same young man I was when I first got into music.

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized.

Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

Nothing changes until it becomes what it is.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went.

There is no change without sacrifice.

The world is changing. We're not really proceeding on a stationary basis.

For better to come, good must stand aside.

Change is one thing, progress is another.