Quotes About Complexity

No one knows who the real me is, so I can be a hundred different kinds of me.

People think that being Korean is all one thing.

Pu La's writing is multi-layered, multi-faceted, and deep.

I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.

I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is.

There is no one label that could be attached to me that would be thought adequate.

I come from a Muslim family. The label 'Muslim' is one aspect of me, but it's not the only part of me.

It's hard for me to label myself or characterize myself.

I think it's common to want to label things as all good or all bad and what I'm finding is that every situation, person, event, has good and bad in it.

Geniuses are not always pleasant people.

You are all right. But you are all wrong too. For each of you touched only one part of the animal.

You know, I've lived a long time," he told me, massaging my calf more firmly now. "And I met a lot of people. But I ain't never met a woman made me want to beat her to death as often as you.

To know Pritkin was to want to kill him, but so far I'd resisted temptation.

She was the oddest combination of contradictions he'd ever met -innocence and sensuality, candour and diplomacy, anxiety and utter fearlessness. He hadn't even begun to figure out how her mind worked. But she was damn well going to live long enough for him to try.

My sometimes friend, sometimes enemy, all the time pain in the ass.

I think sometimes that people are like onions. On the outside smooth and whole and simple but inside ring upon ring, complex and deep.

There's so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any of us, to talk about the rest of us.

She wrapped herself up in an enigma; there was no other way to keep warm.

Language is such an imprecise vehicle I sometimes wonder why we bother with it.

There's volumes to be said for a wine that takes you three glasses to decide whether you find it compelling or repellent." — EVAN AND BRIAN MITCHELL The Psychology of Wine

You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I've learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you.

There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them.

Everywhere I looked, I could see only shades of gray. Black and white were nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we tried to judge things and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, were as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We could only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we could no longer see the light.

Life is not black and white. The closes we ever get to either of those colors is wearing them.