Quotes About Reflection

She stays lost in the middle of her own world somewhere. We can't get in and she doesn't come out. Not often anyway, and certainly not for any length of time. But her mind takes her to somewhere kind, I think, to judge by the peaceful, serene look on her face most of the time.

Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?

I suppose it doesn't occur to you that I can think the system just as unjust as you do.

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

You have the same smile, the same shaped eyes, the same way of tilting your head to listen, the same stubborn streak, the same common sense. Lots of things about you and him are the same.

Sorry implies that if you could go back, you'd do things differently. We both know that you wouldn't change a thing.

My rear end was blood-raw from my so called brilliant ideas rebounding on me.

More and more I was beginning to feel like a spectator in my own life.

it any wonder I preferred the laughter of his house to the dignified silence of my own?

She looked up to stare at her reflection in the mirror, as if she'd never seen her face before either.

Why had I thought of it that way? As a friendship both of us needed? That didn't make any sense at all.

Suddenly all I had were questions.

Thoughts can creep up on you, or they can hit harder than a wrecking ball.

What did Noughts see when they looked at me – a light-skinned Cross? What did Crosses see when they looked at me – a dark-skinned Nought? I had to stop seeing myself through anyone's eyes but my own. But

Time gives good advice.

It is not that I dwell on the past. But the past shapes the way we are in the present and the way we will become what we are destined to become. It is only because I have finally understood the past, accepted it, embraced it, that I can fully live in the moment. And hardly a moment goes by when I don't think about Emmett, and the lessons a son can teach a mother.

Maybe you and I and the fish exist only in the memory of a person who is gone. Maybe no one really exists, and it's only raining outside. Maybe the bird never existed at all. -Boy (Angel's Egg)

We all make mistakes in our youth of which we are ashamed. The difference is that the rest of us can forgive the child we were and believe in the honour of the adult we have become. - Gwyddhien

We all make mistakes in our youth of which we are ashamed. The difference is that the rest of us can forgive the ignorance of the child we were and believe in the honour of the adult we have become.

To heal at all, you need first to understand what is lost and why. I know of no fast way that might be done.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend—or a meaningful day. Dalai Lama

Wir schweigen am frühen Morgen des Tages, weil Gott das erste Wort haben soll und wir schweigen vor dem Schlafengehen, weil Gott auch das letzte Wort gehört.

Wer wird Weihnachten recht feiern? Wer alle Gewalt, alle Ehre, alles Ansehen, alle Eitelkeit, allen Hochmut, alle Eigenwilligkeit endlich niederlegt an der Krippe.

Gott führe uns freundlich durch diese Zeiten; aber vor allem führe er uns zu sich.