Quotes About Revelation

Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention.

Sometimes my feelings get so big that I just want to swim out into the darkness. Just jump off the end of the world. Sometimes I want to dig, right down to the bones of everything. Sometimes when you dig, you dig up stuff you might not want to find. But that's where the good stuff lies.

It is so difficult to be honest when someone has died; it's as if truth stops at the grave even when the lies continue to hurt the living.

He felt as if he'd dived into a deep, clear lake and discovered it was a shallow, knee-deep pond. What did you do? Well, you stood up. You rinsed your mud-caked knees and pulled your feet out of the muck. And you were more cautious after that. You knew, from then on, that the world was a smaller place than you'd expected.

How did you explain to someone—how did you explain to a child, a child you loved—that someone they adored was not to be trusted? She

What made something precious? Losing it and finding it. All those times he'd pretended to lose her. He sinks down on the carpet, dizzy with loss.

She had felt, finally, as if she could speak without immediately bumping into the hard shell of her sheltered life, as if she suddenly saw that the solid walls penning her in were actually bars, with spaces between them wide enough to slip through.

She had felt, finally, as if she could speak without immediately bumping into the hard shell of her sheltered life, as it she suddenly saw that the solid walls penning her in were actually bars, with spaces between them wide enough to slip through.

Era tão fácil (...) descobrir coisas sobre as pessoas. Estava tudo disponível, tudo sobre elas. Bastava procurar. Era possível descobrir qualquer coisa sobre alguém caso se esforçasse para isso.

Something inside Izzy reached out to something in her and caught fire.

As he began to speak, her cheeks went hot, as if she'd stepped into summer sun.

At the sight of her on the phone, a lightness crossed his face, like clouds shifting after strong wind. She saw him as he must have looked when he was young, long before she had been born: boyishly hopeful, possibilities turning his eyes into stars.

She knew at last where everything had gone wrong. And she knew where she had to go.

Tinha a sensação de ter mergulhado em um lago fundo e transparente, e então de ter descoberto que na verdade era uma lagoa rasa, que batia no seu joelho. O que podia fazer? Bem, tinha que se levantar, limpar os joelhos sujos, tirar os pés da lama. E tomar mais cuidado. Ele saberia, dali em diante, que o mundo era um lugar menor do que imaginara.

Everything seems new. The outlines of his furniture. The sunbeams slicing across the carpet. His hands before his face.

And then, as if the tears are telescopes, she begins to see more clearly:

They probably teach you that most plantation owners were kind to their slaves and that Columbus discovered America, don't they?

Mom," she said. "Dad. It's not what you think.

in Mia's accepting presence she'd become curious and kind and open, as if under a magic spell. She had felt, finally, as if she could speak without immediately bumping into the hard shell of her sheltered life, as if she suddenly saw that the solid walls penning her in were actually bars, with spaces between them wide enough to slip through.

Later, slowly, they will piece together other things that have never been said.

Prova a dire ai mortali queste cose che sai.

La sorpresa es el móvil de cada descubrimiento.

such understanding might be extremely boring. Also, such understanding might include seeing some things you don't want to see.

Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it.