Quotes About Reflection

I studied a crescent moon hung crooked in a plum purple sky and thought about what it would be like to truly be seen.

I'll regret it for the rest of my life, Rush, but I was fucking seventeen years old. We're morons at seventeen. We think everything we do is right-- that nothing has a consequence.

Hope erodes slowly, over time, until you wake up one night at three o'clock in the morning and realize: I am not meant for that kind of thing.

Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become — Blessing of Memory, Mediations Before Kaddish

Grief obliterates the present, forcing you to relive the past and dread the future.

I meant that sometimes we choose partners who, in some ways, remind us of our parents. The good and the bad parts of them.

Lauraine Snelling

Do you believe at times that a moment chooses you to remember it entirely & tell about it — so that it may live again? — Laure-Anne Bosselaar, from "Lately," Vox Populi (11 June 2022)

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

And just like that I had my lesson. I shouldn't assume that every woman a man bashes gave him a good reason to do it. - Anita Blake

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

I didn't know what to say to that, so i kept my mouth shut. When in doubt,shut the fuck up.

I wondered if I had offended him. I wondered if I cared.

Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.

Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you.

Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.

The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster. -Merry

Lately, when I didn't have room to bitch, I didn't. Maturity, at last.

Just another day in my life. This was one of those days when I thought that maybe a new life, a different life, wouldn't be so bad. But where the hell had I put the receipt, and could you return something that was over twenty years old? Where do you go to get a new life when your old one has you so puzzled you don't know how to fix it? Wish I knew.

They say not to look back, but if you're not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?

Because everything worth having hurts.

When in doubt, shut the fuck up.

Once upon a time wasn't as long ago as it used to be.

There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.