Quotes About Clarity

Sunday 11:05 AM Hi Kate I text you! Hi. U r home now? Spell things out, for heaven's sake. You're not some teenager. You are home now? No.

People tended to be very spendthrift with their language, Kate had noticed. They used a lot more words than they needed to.

While the train racketed along, he sorted his currency into envelopes that he'd brought from home—each envelope clearly marked with a different denomination. (No fumbling with unfamiliar coins, no peering at misleading imprints, if you separate and classify foreign money ahead of time.)

I didn't quite understand about last night," he said. "What was that? Can we talk about it?" His voice was meek but pushy, Willa thought, and she didn't feel like answering him, but she knew he would keep on pressing her until she did. So she shrugged again and said, "I was just overtired, I guess.

What if marrying Shelley meant that she would end up just like him, unable to realize a thing's happening or a moment's passing? What if it were like a contagious disease, so that soon she would be wandering around in a daze and incapable of putting her finger on any given thing and saying, that is that?

Coming here had not been a mistake. Willa couldn't say exactly how she knew that, but she did.

There ought to be a while separate language, she thought, for words that are truer than other words - for perfect, absolute truth. It was the purest fact of her life: she did not understand him, and she never would.

You wake in the morning, you're feeling fine, but all at once you think, "Something's not right. Something's off somewhere; what is it?" And then you remember

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

The silence is not suppression; instead, it is all there is.

The writing that so thrills and exhilarates you, as if you were dancing right next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else.

What you see in an eclipse is entirely different from what you know. It is especially different for those of us whose grasp of astronomy is so frail that, given a flashlight, a grapefruit, two oranges, and fifteen years, we still could not figure out which way to set the clocks for Daylight Saving Time.

Each thing in the world is translucent.

Some mornings when I wake up, it takes a long time to remember who I am. Like, it takes a while for everything that's happened in last month to download into my brain. It's nice, not knowing. Even if it's just for five minutes.

Battered by the mind noise, huddled in the back with eyes closed and fists clenched, the old Melissa had understood pep rallies about as well as a bird sucked through a jet engine comprehended aircraft design.

Ignorance doesn't lead to salvation, nor does knowledge pave the way to sin. - Cinda Williams Chima

And hidden within the agony the strange clarity came again, as if the world had ordered itself into something that made perfect sense.

If is a word that can never be said too loudly

I mean how could he possibly preconceive something like that?' And I'm dying right? My face is red and I'm fuming. And then, finally, Christine grabs me and takes me aside and says 'Don didn't send that. Mick and John did.' They were in hysterics.

She lived her life believing in the power of simplicity. Whether it had to do with fashion, work or relationships, she used to say, Boil it all down to what counts the most: What is the essence of what you are trying to do, what is the most important thing? Things only get complicated when you are trying to address too many issues.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

Öylesine s?n?rlanm???z ki kendi kayg?lar?m?zla, sürekli dönüp baÅŸa geliyoruz, öyle ki art?k doÄŸru ile yanl???, yasad??? hevesle en saf ideal aras?ndaki fark? bile ay?rt edemiyoruz. Ä°ngmar Bergman

I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.

We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.