Quotes About Reflection

One world moved on, the next came to life around you, and before you knew it, things that had been normal and accepted were nothing more than late-night reruns and memories to be shared over a beer.

Where did you learn that?" Vein asked, still staring. "I read," Bruno said evenly. "I talk less than the rest of you. It gives me time.

Why does it always feel like I'm standing on the edge of some kind of big, black pit?" "There are a lot of pits," Donovan said. "The most interesting lives are lived walking around the rims.

So many things that might have been," Edgar said. "My life – I'm afraid – will be recorded as a series of things that are, and better things that might have been. My heart is sore, and I have never felt so weary.

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it

Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.

And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.

She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.

Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.

You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

For his thirtieth birthday he had filled a whole night-club off Regent Street; people had been queuing on the pavement to get in. The SIM card of his mobile phone in his pocket was overflowing with telephone numbers of all the hundreds of people he had met in the last ten years, and yet the only person he had ever wanted to talk to in all that time was standing now in the very next room.

We're not ourselves, are we? I'm certainly not myself, not anymore. And you're not either. You don't seem yourself. Not as I remember you.

perhaps grief is as much regret for what we have never had as sorrow for what we have lost.

Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.

She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

Welcome to the graveyard of ambition

He] didn't like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.

Light travels differently in a room that contains another person; it reflects and refracts so that even when she was silent or sleeping I knew that she was there.

I don't think there's anything we can do, is there? We either stop or we carry on.

Travelling', she sighed.'So predictable.' 'What's wrong with travelling?' 'Avoiding reality more like.' 'I think reality is over-rated,' he said in the hope that this might come across as dark and charismatic.

Your last letter made me laugh so much, Em, but you should still get out of there because while it's good for gags it's definitely bad for your soul. You can't throw years of your life away because it makes a funny anecdote.

it's rapidly becoming clear that the so-called best years of my life are never going to happen

I was looking forward to us growing old together. Me and you, growing old and dying together. Douglas, who in their right mind would look forward to that?

Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that?