Quotes About Revelation

My own brother. My very own brother is Metal Beak and he wants to kill me.

But…what if he pretended to be engaged? His mother would feel free to marry the man she loved. How about if I introduce her to my fiancée? Think that would do it? Jim started, then dourly eyed the six chocolate hats Davis had lined up on the counter. Why haven't we heard anything about her until now? Who is she?

Doris Lessing: You only begin to discover the difference between what you really are, your real self, and your appearance when you get a bit older...a whole dimension of life suddenly slides away and you realize that what in fact you've been using to get attention has been what you look like...it really is a most salutary and fascinating thing to go through, shedding it all.

But...If that's true, then you're not...we thought you...Akira?

It was always easy to think that happiness and wisdom lay in the shadows, in places that have never yet been seen.

he slowly put down the hamburger he was eating, stared straight into my eyes, and, without missing a beat, said rather dryly, "That explains a lot.

It's hard not to jump out instead of waiting to be found. It's hard to be alone so long and then hear someone come around. It's like some form of skin's developed in the air that, rather than have torn, you tear. Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek It's hard not to jump out instead of waiting to be found. It's hard to be alone so long and then hear someone come around. It's like some form of skin's developed in the air that, rather than have torn, you tear.

But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.

One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.

And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of what came later...

The giant, once well buried, now stirs. When soon he rises, as surely he will, the friendly bonds between us will prove as knots young girls make with the stems of small flowers.

As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such as this that one is prompted towards such surprising new perspectives on topics one imagined one had long ago thought throughly.

Yet are you so certain, good mistress, you wish to be free of this mist? Is it not better some things remain hidden from our minds?

I have this feeling, that all it will take will be one moment, even a tiny moment, provided it's the correct one. Like a cord suddenly snapping and a thick curtain dropping to the floor to reveal a whole new world, a world full of sunlight and warmth.

Then of course I found it. I'd been flicking through a row of cassette cases, my mind on other things, when suddenly there it was, under my fingers, looking just the way it had all those years ago: Judy, her cigarette, the coquettish look for the barman, the blurred palms in the background.

The giant, once well buried, now stirs. When soon he rises

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pictures, poetry, all that kind of stuff, she said they revealed what you were like inside. She said they revealed your soul.

I could suddenly see something, he explained to us. A garden I'd not yet entered. There it was, in the distance. There were things in the way. But for the first time, there it was. A garden I'd never seen before.

By then, of course, we all knew something I hadn't known back then, which was that none of us could have babies.

You will agree that such is often the way with matters one has given abiding thought to over a period of time; one is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.

The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it's a cold moment. It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange.

We hadn't been ready for that. It had never occurred to us to wonder how we  would feel, being seen like that, being the spiders.