Quotes About Duality

Actually, 'worthless piece of shit' if you think about it, suggests the possibility of the opposite.

maybe who someone really is can be totally different from who you think they are.

Darkness is simply a piece of the whole, neither good nor evil unless you make it so.

London after dark is a different place than in daylight. There is as much hustle-bustle as always, but now the gentry are out and about as well as less salubrious members of society - the inebriated, the ruffians, and the ladies looking to entice a man from the straight and narrow.

Which was he, then, savage or gentleman?

The Evil Twin was either Tracey or Casey Reardon. I wasn't sure which one, and no one else seemed to either. All we knew for sure was that the twins were evil. Or, one of them was evil and the other just looked the same.

In moments, I clutched at the notion of some larger "me" that could contain and justify my contradictory behavior, but more often I simply felt like the scene of two irreconcilable visions, two different people, one unerringly loyal and faithful, the other treacherous and greedy.

Could' and 'is' are so far apart as to be opposites." "No," she says. " 'Is' and 'isn't' are opposites.

Your throat tightens up and your eyes get wet as you watch their faces go from stony to sad, and it's all kind of moving and sweet except that you're not completely there—a part of you is a few feet away, or above, thinking, Good, they'll forgive you, they won't desert you, and the question is, which one is really "you," the one saying and doing whatever it is, or the one watching?

There wasn't an in-between for me. I lived at extremes. And maybe I'd die at them too.

Maybe, to do what you and I do, we have to have a little bit of the monster in us.

Nobody knew what it was like to be torn between what it meant to be human and what it meant to be Pack better than me.

I told you kid... You're not a player. You're the glass ballerina--- or the knife.

I was the glass ballerina or the knife.

It was warm and safe and happy-but it wasn't me. [Cassandra Hobbes]

you're not a player, kid. You're the glass ballerina—or the knife.

Jij bent de glazen ballerina...of het mes.' - Nash Westbrook Hawthorne (De erfenis)

Sometimes a butterfly is not just a butterfly. This is what Oma taught me. You know the worst thing I learned from her? You can be a monster and not even know you are one. They look like us. They think they are us. But really, they've got a monster hiding inside.

I can be both of us at once so no one will have to miss her, most of all me. I I

People can be great, but they can also be lousy. I am often lousy. But not completely lousy. You, Libby Strout, are great.

the river, Ruald had two

À eux deux, la femme, nerveuse et hypocrite, l'homme, sanguin et vivant en brute, ils faisaient un couple puissamment lié. Ils se complétaient, se protégeaient mutuellement. Le soir, à table, dans les clartés pâles de la lampe, on sentait la force de leur union, à voir le visage épais et souriant de Laurent, en face du masque muet et impénétrable de Thérèse.

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.

As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.