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Quotes About Revelation

Something impossibly heavy that held me in thrall, a scrap of the divine not good for my soul, a thing that should never have been fixed in place on tape to be repeatedly overheard, a thing that stood between me and the telling of secrets.
~ Helen Macdonald
In a psychomantium glass topples darkness. Things appear as they really are, people appear as they really are. Visions are called from a point inside the mirror, from a point inside the mind.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
When I saw you for the first time, I thought you had a secret life.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
His puppets have a nihilistic spirit, if you'd understand what I meant by that. Sometimes his puppets won't perform at all. He just lets them sit there, watching us. Then he has them look at each other and then back at us until it feels as if they have information, some kind of dreadful information about each and every one of us, and you begin to wish they'd decide to keep their mouths shut forever.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
She had had such a strong feeling that she needed to talk to someone who would tell her some secret that would make everything alright. She had been unable to think who it was.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Lily's eye transformed places. She looked at structures and they turned inside out and offered her their desolate jigsaw patterns. Once
~ Helen Oyeyemi
She found a mirror and turned around in front of it with her arms held out in front of her. She was all there, all in one piece. Then what? What had she lost?
~ Helen Oyeyemi
I don't know anything about light, from where it comes, nor where it goes I only want the light to light up. . .
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Sometimes our subconscious is so transparent it's boring
~ Helen Oyeyemi
She has a soft spot for houses that look sensible until you get inside.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
And she told Monste all about it as she poured coffee into vases for them both. (It was true! It was true!)
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Feelings came alive in Vicki for which the earth and sea had never taught her names.
~ Helen Wells
On the wall of time to come a window appears. I open it, let angels in.
~ Helene Cardona
The things I agree to with a little gin in me.
~ Helene Hanff
Her eyes were bottomless wells that led to the permafrost of her soul." She
~ Helene Tursten
This was soul calling to soul. A tired, trapped lock at last meeting the key that unlocks it.
~ Helon Habila
Our job is to find out the truth, even if it is buried deep in the earth.
~ Helon Habila
You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.
~ Henning Mankell
It seems to me that truth has taken its place again in our little room, and become incarnate; that the greatest bond which can bind two beings together is being confessed, the great bond we did not know of, though it is the whole of salvation: "Before, I loved you for my own sake; to-day, I love you for yours."
~ Henri Barbusse
Es la imagen más pura de la mujer amada: la que aún no conocemos totalmente, la que se revelará, la que tiene en sí el único milagro viviente que existe en la tierra.
~ Henri Barbusse
It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
Je vais te montrer un secret.
~ Henri Loevenbruck
We are hemmed round with mystery, and the greatest mysteries are contained in what we see and do every day.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
It is truth alone--scientific, established, proved, and rational truth--which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps "faith governs the world"--but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest--it is in reason and science.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel