Quotes About Reflection

And then he told me to close my eyes. And I think I've been frightened to do just that ever since.

Death is death and loss is loss.

Does it help?" he asks. "The e-mailing." She nods. "A tiny bit. It's strange. You're writing a letter to someone who's never going to read it, so it kind of frees you up a bit.

The worst thing about the slivers of light is that you get to catch people's expressions for only a split second; then they disappear again, and in between you are forced to think about what it is that could make a person look so devastated.

Recuerdo amor. Es lo que tengo que seguir recordándome. Es gracioso cómo puedes olvidarlo todo, excepto el amor de las personas que te han querido. Tal vez por eso a los humanos nos cuesta tanto recuperarnos de las historias de amor. No es el dolor lo que tratan de superar, es el amor.

I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.

Not just a name but a state of mind I never want to revisit, although I do keep him at the back of my mind for those times I get my hopes raised about something. So then I can slap myself into reality and remind myself of what happens when you let someone into your sacred space.

I'm frightened to look at myself in the mirror because maybe nothing's there.

It's not that I miss my mother. It's just that I miss the idea of what one would be.

nd then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they cease being who they had been

Sometimes he felt he needed to inhale it and place it in a storage are in his soul. Just in case

Mirad, recuerdo el amor, eso es lo que la gente no entiende.

To be that smart means you know all the answers and when you know all the answers there's no room for dreaming

One day Tate was there, a ghost of Tate

That she would never see the moments in my life that were full of neglect and fear and revulsion, moments I can never go back to because I know they will slow me down for the rest lf my life if I let myself remember them for one moment

Why do they always have to remember the pathetic stuff? Why can't they ever remember something positive being said about me?

Recuerdo amor. Es lo que tengo que seguir recordándome. Es gracioso cómo puedes olvidarlo todo, excepto el amor de las personas que te han querido. Tal vez por eso a los humanos nos cuesta tanto recuperarnos de las historias de amor. No es el dolor lo que tratan de superar, es el amo.

Que no viera nunca los momentos de mi vida que han estado llenos de negligencia, miedo y repulsión, momentos a los que nunca podré volver, porque sé que me entorpecerán el resto de mi vida si me permito recordarlos un solo instante.

la gente con tanta personalidad me asusta terriblemente. Hacen que quiera ser mejor persona, sabiendo que no me es posible.

From this distance everything is so bloody perfect.

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.

How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?

line deepening her already

And I said, 'I'm thinkin' I've wasted too much time thinkin', is what I'm thinkin'.