Snake Shedding Skin Quotes

#1. I prefer to doubt everything. Such a disposition does not preclude a resolute character. On the contrary, as far as I am concerned, I always advance more boldly when I don't know what is waiting me for me. After all, nothing worse than death can happen-and death you can't escape!

Mikhail Lermontov

#2. Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was better to not have favourites - a snake didn't mourn when it had to shed its skin.

Leonardo Donofrio

#3. A change of style is a change of meaning.

Wallace Stevens

#4. A butterfly does not mourn the passing of its former caterpillar, nor a snake, the shedding of its former skin.

Noah Fregger

#5. We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time.

Steve Yzerman

#6. Arguing is a game that two can play at. But it is a strange game in that neither opponent ever wins.

Benjamin Franklin

#7. I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny, when the hell do I get some sleep?) and [ the book] ROOM was the result.

Emma Donoghue