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“I'll read alone for now," Lewis replied, knowing the only thing more terrifying than seeing his future through his own eyes would be seeing it through hers.”

Fear Transformation The Future

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“What would happen to his self in the moment of complete metamorphosis? When Lewis, the actor, became a great white shark, the character, permanently? Was Lewis's disease an art form?”

Art Disease Transformation Questions Metamorphosis

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“I am a very ill man if you see mutation as my doctors do. But if you perceive mutation in another way, as a transformation, you might see a dramatic form with many possibilities. I am unsure of many things, but I am sure of this: I want to spend my last months as a human being with you, making theater about human beings, for human beings.”

Humanity Transformation

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“Wren did not see her mother as a sick woman living within a body she no longer knew or controlled. Instead, she saw a pathetic, powerless beast surrounded by murder, a mess of blood and guts. As rage bubbled up and spilled over, Wren sharpened a pernicious, worded arrow and lobbed it at the bull's-eye, her mother. "You are a monster."”

Humanity Transformation Metamorphosis Animalism

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“The doctors focused on subtraction, what was being taken from his human experience, but they failed to see the incredible features and traits being added in the process.”

Change Transformation Metamorphosis

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“While his body rearranged itself, Lewis could do nothing but helplessly bear witness to the process.”

Change Transformation Metamorphosis Body Horror

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“An incessant desire for fish became louder than all the things Lewis treasured: the heartbeat of language, the idea of living in a tree, the universal within the poetic, and his soft way of loving her.”

Change Transformation Hunger Animalism

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“At last, he witnessed Wren, his assiduous, loving partner, see him not for what he was but for what he had become. Lewis's nightmares were now in full bloom. His wife loved him, but she was also terrified of him.”

Change Transformation Nightmares

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“Moments when he was no longer their teacher but an imperfect man who had just apprehended a flash of enlightenment in the fourth row of the high school auditorium; moments when he was no longer a human becoming a shark, in fact: no longer a body at all but a celestial object, simultaneously born and dying from an overwhelm of love and goodness.”

Transformation Metaphor Celestial Body

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart