Quotes About Clarity

I'll help you protect her," Sam says. "If you want to."... "Okay. Is it really that obvious I'm into her?

Hazel began to list what she knew. She liked lists. They were comfortingly straightforward, even when they were full of crazy stuff.

Beside them, anyone might as well be a shadow, a blurry reflection of a reflection.

All human beings should try and learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. —JAMES THURBER

Simple lies are always better than a complicated truth.

You're mixing your metaphors. It gives me a headache.

She understood now that knowing when to walk away and when to hunker down and refuse to leave were equally difficult decisions to make in a marriage; that going back didn't have to mean settling; and that the most fulfilling times weren't always before a storm, but sometimes long after the dust had settled, when you were able to lift your chin and see what was left standing so you could wrap yourself around it with all of the wonder it deserved.

lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.

Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

Truth is less complete in its utterance; it does not put everything on the outside; it allows us to see what is within.

My dear Pierre, the affair is clear, you'll have your head chopped off. Let that be a lesson to you!

Ma chi può lusingarsi di essere compreso? Moriamo tutti incompresi. È il detto delle donne e quello degli scrittori.

Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

Red Bird in Snow You can choose to stop short - or have it not matter not weigh the brightness, not hold very still and be known to yourself again. A thing fills with exactly the radiance you accord it.

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.

We should have given up years ago. It's so clear now. We should have "explored other options." We should have adopted. We gave up years of our lives and we very nearly destroyed our marriage. Our happy ending could have and should have arrived so much sooner. And even though I adore the fact that Francesca has Ben's eyes, I also see now that her biological connection to us is irrelevant.

She found that the less she thought, the more often she found simple truths appearing right in front of her.

single spotlight revealed Alice's

Every time I ask her to explain her job, I forget to listen.

Supposedly, the truth was always the best option.

forty being the "precise age where you're old enough and young enough to handle a revelation".

What was the actual benefit of accuracy when it came to memories?

when I tried to explain my job. I'm sure it has never