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Quotes About Clarity

You blank your mind and let the words come out, crisp and even. You don't think about what they mean, and you sure as hell don't about what you're saying.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Sometimes people said an obvious thing, and what they meant by it wasn't obvious at all.
~ Elizabeth Bear
He blinked, his expression the strangest blend of grief and hurt betrayal; Kit saw it with a clarity which made a mockery of the ten feet between them.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It was almost a clean hate, for a moment, untainted by her own failures.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She hadn't understood the plan until she spoke it.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Barb let the joyous, icy clarity of combat wash over her.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I felt as if I had been navigating a vast space by touch alone, groping in the darkness, and suddenly I could see.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I cannot see as they see, in shades of advantage and degrees of subtlety.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I wanted to finish my investigation, when I was so close to answers that I could taste them.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Nothing could touch Will in the void: he knew somehow that he needed poetry, needed the power of his words, but in his jumbled consciousness he could not put one line of a poem with another.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Truth, but not very much of it, suitable for paddling your toes in.
~ Elizabeth Bear
As blatant a declaration of intent as a wolf could make without a challenge snarled.
~ Elizabeth Bear
You bumped your psychopathy up, didn't you?" He smiled generously. "Of course I did. I'm flying. Can't be distracted by doubts.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I strained against the fuzziness and fog that still infected me.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The gleam in her eyes tells it all.
~ Elizabeth Bear
There was so much information, and I had so little sense of what any of it meant.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I should have known she'd read through the riddle of thy presence.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Cold dark deep and absolutely clear,element bearable to no mortal,to fish and to seals…
~ Elizabeth Bishop
Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.
~ Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
For God's sake, is there no plain man?
~ Elizabeth Bowen
made articulate seemed to
~ Elizabeth Bowen
People are most themselves when suddenly woken, or when they pull darkness over their heads, or when, in the middle of the night, they commit themselves to some momentous decision.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Language seldom fails quietly, it fails noisily.
~ Elizabeth Bowen