Almost alone among the princes he had seemed to appreciate that a woman might be human once in a while.

She seems to want us to know that she was once human.

"I wonder if she still remembers she was once human."

So those who were once human, and then made into monsters, can be human again.

- so ancient they are said to be no longer recognizable as something once human.

It is hard to believe that you were once human.

The things in the cages had been human once, but now they were something else.

While it is never fully established as fact, Danny sometimes hints that he was human once.

They'd been human once, before the alien absorbed them into its system.

He was human once, but he lost all that, and now he's just a bad man.