Quotes About Reflection

Eve stapte in en toen ik haar voorbeeld volgde vroeg ik me af of Pandora zich ook zo had gevoeld toen ze de doos openmaakte.

There is something fundamentally wrong with you

Distractions aren't just distractions. Sometimes, you need them to break the loop.

If it had been me in the woods, if I'd been the one to go with Briggs, if I'd been the one you saw at the exact second . . . would it have been me? He didn't finish the question and I didn't answer it

I couldn't shake the feeling that this life was never meant for me.

There's only so much one can do with Mercury in retrograde, but…" She let out a long, theatrical breath.

Sometimes I wonder if you remember things the way they really were.

How will we know if it's changing us?" I asked. "Maybe we won't. The biggest changes happen so slowly you hardly notice them.

Reggie smiled. 'You haven't changed at all.' Tara took another pile of clothing from her bag and gave Reggie a sly grin from over the top of it. 'Do any of us really?

There's nothing in that water except what we bring in with us.

Marriage is full of such cut-and-dry arrangements, Rhonda thought,then felt that small ache she sometimes got at the back of her skull-the one that told her she might be alone forever, not a fate that she chose but rather a fate that seemed to have been chosen for her.

We don't know the terrible things that are coming our way," she said as she looked down at the cut crystal, her eyes teary. "We just see the shiny surface, our own beautiful selves reflected in it. Not the monster lurking beneath.

What's the difference, I wondered, between a ghost and a memory?

The wind blew, rippling the water, making everything waver as if none of it were real.

Reggie had always been a quiet kid, even with her own family, and part of the reason for this was that she never knew the right thing to say. Words didn't come easily to her, they were stumbling blocks rather than lines of connection. And only later, after the fact, when she was replaying conversations in her head late at night, did the right words come—a cruel joke, too little, too late.

If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?

we all do what we think is best. Sometimes we make terrible mistakes, sometimes we do the right thing. Sometimes we never know. We just have to hope

Young Reverend Ayers looks at a lake and sees only his own reflection in it; that is what God is to him. He does not see the creatures that live down deep, the dragonflies that hover, the frog on the lily pad." Auntie's face was full of pity and scorn as she shook her head and spat tobacco juice again. "His heart and mind are closed to the true beauty of the lake, the place where all its magic lies.

Do you have a potent way to sustain your sense of meaning, courage, peace, and awe?

Some were taking this or that nervine cure-all, but the best nervine for a man who is not absolutely past repair, is to break away entirely from his calling or greed and camp out on the sea shore...and patiently wait for the return of good health." James Bradley

People across history speak of being haunted by suicides and tempted by them toward the grave.

Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.

The mistake of Marc Antony's death haunts all suicides, with its reminder that we do not always know where we really are in our story.

Jack Miles's wonderful literary reading of the Hebrew Bible as a biography of God offers the insight that after the Book of Job, God never speaks again. God may seem to silence Job, but Job silences God. It is lovely that Job silencing God is part of the text (though likely an accidental order of the books), because it reflects a real change in the real world after the Book of Job came into it.