Quotes About Duality

I had become a bridge between the natural world and the human one. I fit into both places and belonged to neither. Half of my heart lived with the wild wolves, the other half lived with my family. In case you cannot do the math: no one can survive with half a heart.

I believe in Hell . . . but it's here on earth." He shakes his head. "Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once.

People are never who they seem to be

But this isn't true. Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other. To

She knew, even at that young age, that you cannot separate good and evil cleanly, that they are conjoined twins sharing a single heart.

Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint.

Can a person hold tightly to two thoughts that look, at first sight, as if they'd cancel each other out?

I love that she's tough as nails one moment and soft as suede the next.

believe in Hell… but it's here on earth." He shakes his head. "Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once.

Can a person not be two things at once?

Some American writer said that it was a sign of intellectual maturity to be able to hold two opposing opinions in your mind at the same time.

Pretend that you're a clever shepherd girl, and you're just dressed up in pretty clothes, and you're trying to make everybody believe that you're a spoiled, empty-headed little princess. So no one guesses that under your clothes you're a brave shepherd girl who climbs trees and chases away wolves with your staff.

Lovat liked and detested London at the same time.

I am not all sneers and scathings, you see, I have my gentler side.

For whom is the funhouse fun? Perhaps for lovers. For Ambrose it is a place of fear and confusion .

A saint abroad and a devil at home.

It must have been after more than five minutes of this concentrated examination of the phenomenal shape which this strange growth on the horse's neck was gradually assuming, that the door-keeper suddenly leapt to his feet and began shouting: Bundy! Bundy! Bundy! come quick! Here's a horse that's going to have two heads! For God's sake come quick, Bundy, and look! It's going to have a man's head as well as its own! Quick! Quick! Bundy! come quick!

It's really complicated to make something simple but very simple to make something complicated.

The worst and the best things have the tendency of occupying the same positions in our minds, so incline your hearts to the best things.

Somehow, you are both the best and the worst thing that has happened to me.

Some how you are both the best and worst thing that has ever happened to me.

I could name a thousand reasons why I hate you, but I could name a million reasons why I love you.

There are three types of people in this world: the ones who keep you alive, the ones who cause you so much that makes you want to die, and the ones who somehow manage to do both at the same time.

I don't think I ever felt that good and that bad at the same time in my life.