Quotes About Revelation

The idea is—you don't know what you're interested in. That's why it's possible to be surprised. So, instead of looking for things in particular, you look for what you didn't know you liked, and then when you find it you know that you liked it, and then you are a broader person than you were before.

Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry.

The time for hidden truths is over.

Shaking herself, Petunia looked around. Several of her sisters had been talking to her, but she hadn't heard them. "And that answers our questions about why he gave himself up," Poppy was saying, a smile turning up one corner of her mouth as she looked at Petunia. "Now if everyone could please avoid saying his name [Oliver], so that Petunia doesn't drift off again...?

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. —OSCAR WILDE

It was always you. I thought it was someone else, but it was you. You were the person that I felt.

her dearest friends were like dreams she had woken from. How had she missed so much?

Jesu, she was naked!

I cannot write about Venice; I can only write about me, and the sleeping parts of myself that Venice has shocked into wakefulness.

Erst das Lazarett zeigt, was der Krieg ist.

Jeigu nors kartÄ… tikrai suprastume, kas yra gyvenimas, tikrai sprogtume!

I won't be seeing you again, he said. It's just as well. I've told you too much to want to see you again. I wasn't so sure of that. It seemed possible that he would want to see me later on for that very reason. I alone, he believed, possessed an unfalsified image of his life. But that could make him hate me; perhaps he would feel that I had taken his wife from him, this time irrevocably—if he really believed that his own memory deceived him and only mine remained clear.

Fue entonces cuando la terrorífica verdad empezó a imponèrseme -¡Jenny, estamos legalmente casados! -Si, ahora ya puedo comportarme como una perra

when you look at the past through a fresh lens, you invariably see the world differently and find new material and insights even along well-trodden paths.

I found the actual notes that Prendergast sent to Alfred Trude. I saw how deeply the pencil dug into the paper.

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. J. M. Barrie "Dedication" Peter Pan 1904

Riders on the Ferris Wheel got the clearest, most horrific view of what happened next.

than four months. She and Churchill kept separate bedrooms; sex happened only upon her explicit invitation. It was to Bonham Carter that Clementine, soon after being wed, revealed Churchill's peculiar taste in underclothes: pale pink and made of silk.

Who do you become when you've lost sight of who you are but the false you isn't one you can pretend to be anymore?

Wow. Getting sassy, aren't you? I am, aren't I? I asked in amazement. I didn't know I knew how to do that.

Pulling his weight back off of her, he nodded over his shoulder. "Show me what's in the bedroom." Though her body leapt in expectation, she tried to play it cool. "Oh, just a dresser, a TV, a dead stuffed deer, and, oh, yeah, a bed." "Forget the deer. Show me how the bed works.

Who do you become when you've lost sight of who you are, but the false you isn't one you can pretend to be anymore?

When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.

I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.