Quotes About Experience

I'd thought I remembered her perfectly. But it is much better to see her imperfectly, to see something new every time she moves.

Every traveller returns home.

What a wonderful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other animals do not, how extraordinary the ability to consider a time that's never been experienced. And how tragic not to consider it. It galls us, we with such a limited future, to see someone brush it aside as meaningless, when it has an endless capacity for meaning, and an endless number of meanings that can be found within it.

The worst thing in the world would be to pretend to know the people whose lives I step through. They cannot be home to me. They must be hotel rooms.

What's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real?

Ex-boyfriend #5 appears onstage. Like many of the boys Tiny's attracted to, he's an actor. (If that last sentence raised a big red flag for you, that means you've tried to date an actor.)

Will, he says, do you have a sec to talk in the living room? I spin around in the desk chair and stand up. My stomach flips a bit because the living room is the room least likely to be lived in, the room where the nonexistence of Santa is revealed, where grandmothers die, where grades are frowned upon, and where one learns that a man's station wagon goes inside a woman's garage, and then exits the garage, and then enters again, and so on until an egg is fertilized, and etc.

There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.

there's something important about going back to books you've already read. You will always find new thing inside or have new reaction to characters you thought you already knew well. You learn more about the story and you also learn more about yourself as a reader, and where you are in life.

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and wants to be every word you say -A

There was never that big a disturbance," she tells me. "I didn't think of myself as a boy or a girl—I never have. I would just think of myself as a boy or a girl for a day. It was like a different set of clothes.

Estou aprendendo que uma vida não é real até alguém mais conhecer sua realidade. E quero que minha vida seja real.

Why can't I take the music of the moment and see how long it can last?

I was once in the body of a blind girl,' I tell her. 'When I was eleven. Maybe twelve. I don't know if she was my favorite, but I learned more from being her for a day than I'd learn from most people over a year. It showed me how arbitrary and individual it is, the way we experience the world. Not just that the other senses were sharper. But that we find ways to navigate the world as it is presented to us. For me, it was this huge challenge. But for her, it was just life.

It's always a low when life beings to imitate an old Chevy Chase movie.

Sei disso há algum tempo, mas você pode saber de algo durante anos sem que isso realmente o atinja.

This is how it feels to hold a pencil in her hand. This is how it feels to fill her lungs with air. This is how it feels to press her back against the chair. This is how it feels to touch her ear. This is what the world sounds like to her. This is what she hears every day.

once time is lit, it twill burn whether or not you're breathing it in. even after smoke becomes air there is the memory of smoke

I try to tamp them down, but they're not that easy to contain. Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and wants to be every word you say.

I want this to be the sand that stays on my fingers.

jed is not a smoker but he's smoked. i am not a smoker and i have never smoked

You hear the phrase all the time: a brush with death. What they don't tell you is that the brush has paint on it. And once it touches you, you can't get it off. Not even if you change bodies. Because it's not the body that's been brushed - it's the mind -X

Lo único que sé es que quiero algo auténtico. Sé que soy joven y que «auténtico» no significa «para siempre», [...] pero quiero sentir que la vida importa.

If we could feel the things we fear ahead of time, we would be traumatized. So instead we venture out thinking we know how things will feel, but knowing nothing of how things will really feel.