Quotes About Reflection

Her gün önünden geçtiÄŸiniz ayna bir gün aniden size bambaÅŸka bir ÅŸey,rahats?z edici ve tuhaf bir ÅŸey göstermiÅŸtir.

She wrote of how our childhood becomes like a foreign land once we have grown." "Well, Colonel, it's hardly a foreign land to me. In many ways, it's where I've continued to live all my life. It's only now I've started to make my journey from

Ama san?r?m, gerçek ÅŸu ki, o s?ralarda bizi birbirimizden ay?rmaya çal??an güçlü gelgitler vard? ve ayr?l???n tamamlanmas? için böyle bir ÅŸeyin olmas? gerekiyordu. Bunu o s?rada anlam?? olsayd?k - kim bilir? - belki birbirimize daha s?k? sar?l?rd?k.

didn't think that humans could choose loneliness.

N-aÈ™ putea spune c? au fost ani nefericiÈ›i - am multe amintiri dragi din timpul lor, dar au fost mult mai serioÈ™i È™i, în anumite privinÈ›e, mai întunecaÈ›i. Poate c? în mintea mea toate au c?p?tat proporÈ›ii exagerate, dar am r?mas cu sentimentul c? în acel interval de timp lucrurile au început s? se schimbe extrem de rapid, aÈ™a cum ziua se târ??te în noapte.

A fost ca la È™ah, când faci o miÈ™care È™i, chiar în clipa în care îÈ›i iei degetul de pe pies?, îÈ›i dai seama de greÈ™eala f?cut? È™i intri în panic?, fiindc? nu cunoÈ™ti înc? dimensiunea dezastrului pe care l-ai provocat f?r? s? vrei.

Looking back now, it feels like we spent ages in that steamed-up kitchen after breakfast, or huddled around half-dead fires in the small hours, lost in conversation about our plans for the future.

Yeah," I said. "Gone to Norfolk.

little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone with our fears and longings

A existat o alt? via?? pe care a? fi avut-o, dar o am pe aceasta...

Y se resumía en lo siguiente: lo estábamos haciendo demasiado tarde. Había habido un tiempo para ello, pero lo habíamos dejado pasar, y había algo de ridículo, e incluso de censurable, en el modo en que ahora concebíamos y planeábamos nuestro futuro.

memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't see them ever fading.

This gave us both a little chill, and though we giggled, we didn't say any more about it.

One should realize one has as good as most, perhaps better, and be grateful.

It's just a bit of nostalgia to pass the time.

Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.

Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day.

who don't hate you or wish you any harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you—of how you were brought into this world and why—and who dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs. The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it's a cold moment. It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange.

É muito fácil", acrescentei eu, "criticar quando estamos só de passagem.

Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

You will agree that such is often the way with matters one has given abiding thought to over a period of time; one is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.

That talk with Tommy beside the pond: I think of it now as a kind of marker between the two eras. Not that anything significant started to happen immediately afterwards; but for me at least, that conversation was a turning point. I definitely started to look at everything differently. Where before I'd have backed away from awkward stuff, I began instead, more and more, to ask questions, if not out loud, at least within myself.

Bu çox qÉ™ddar and?r. Sanki ömrün boyu hÉ™r gün yan?ndan ötdüyün güzgü sÉ™nÉ™ qÉ™fildÉ™n baÅŸqa ÅŸey, É™zab verÉ™n qÉ™ribÉ™ bir ÅŸey göstÉ™rir.

In those early months, we'd somehow developed this idea that how well you were settling in at the Cottages—how well you were coping—was somehow reflected by how many books you'd read. It sounds odd, but there you are, it was just something that developed between us, the ones who'd arrived from Hailsham.