Quotes About Complexity

The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody" -Finch

People can be great, but they can also be lousy. I am often lousy. But not completely lousy. You, Libby Strout, are great.

You are all the colors in one, at full brightness" -Finch

She is oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, calcium and phosphorus. The same elements that are inside the rest of us, but I can't help thinking that she's more than that and she's got other elements going on that no one's ever heard of, ones that make her stand apart from everyone else.

The fact is, I was sick, but not in an easily explained flu kind of way. It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other recognizable disease just to make it simple for me and also for them.

We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.

il la tuait de ses caresses, après l'avoir rouée de coups.

How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.

Le tengo constantemente en mi pensamiento, aunque no siempre como una cosa agradable. Tampoco yo me agrado siempre de mí misma. No hables más de separarnos, porque eso es irrealizable.

Catherine's face was just like the landscape—shadows and sunshine flitting over it in rapid succession; but the shadows rested longer, and the sunshine was more transient.

Ele ama e odeia, sempre às escondidas, e considera uma espécie de impertinência ser amado ou odiado de volta.

e se ama Edgar, e Edgar a ama a si. Parece tudo normal e fácil. Onde está a infelicidade? - Aqui! e aqui! - respondeu Catherine, batendo com uma mão na testa e a outra no peito.

It is not in him to be loved like me: how can she love in him what he has not?

Pa ni prva junakinja tog imena [Catherine] nije bez odre?ene ?udne ljepote u svojem divljaštvu, niti je nepoštena usred izopa?ene strasti i strastvene izopa?enosti.

a o?i bi bile neodoljive kad bi imale prijateljski izražaj. Na sre?u za moje osjetljivo srce, jedini osje?aj koji su one jasno pokazivale vrtio se izme?u prezira i nekakva o?aja, svakako neobi?no i neprirodno otkri?e u takvim mladim o?ima.

Debería de odiar y amar disimulándolo, y seguramente hubiera considerado como un impertinente a quien lo amase o le odiase, a su vez.

Nature is what we know / Yet have not art to say / So impotent our wisdom is / To her simplicity.

El sempre es compon de molts ares.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

I don't know. She was a sweet girl. As sweet as they come. I don't know why I didn't love her. It's something you can't really control.

Instead of relief or gratitude, more guilt washes over me. Andy's certainly not faultless - no one ever is in a marriage

It's not that simple or clear-cut - and I wonder if it ever is when it comes to matters of the heart.

I looked at my friend, overwhelmed with confusion. Unsure of what April should do. What I should do. What a strong woman would do. In fact, the only thing that I am certain of is that there are no easy answers, and that anyone who says there are has never been in our shoes.