Quotes About Reflection

That's the thing with the real world. It's never going to be perfect, and I don't have control over that. But I can control how I behave in it, and how I let things affect me. I can choose to be perfect in my own way without having to be perfect in everyone else's eyes. Relying on other people to reflect my worth back to me is a fool's errand.

At times I forgot the body I wore

little life lesson 23: before making a snide comment about someone else's outfit, check to see if you're wearing knee boots with fringe. if you answer yes, drop it. just do.

talking to yourself again, jas? yes, it beats talking to you. oh, time machine back to first grade much? only to visit your brain.

ask yourself, what would babbi do? waht WWBD? You know, the famous line in the movie Bambi if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.

On the way out of the bathroom, he stopped to put the toilet seat down. You're going to break my heart, Ford Winter , she thought.

God, she was a fool. What had she expected him to do? To think? Hi, you hate me, you put your head through five mirrors to make that point, so I was thinking...

You should have died

That's a lot of what the ghetto is, a reflection of poor self esteem

while you try to reconcile the place before you with the place in your memory,

It's really not so much about the amount of yeses or nos; it's about the brokenness behind our answers.

Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking.

For your information, I do love you. Although at times like this I have to wonder why.

Who can say how many lives have been saved by books?

The past was not always past enough here. It was like living in a house acquired for its clean angles and gleaming appliances, and discovering a bricked-up foor at which, faint but insistent, the sound of knocking could be heard.

All the while, she understood that nothing could save her from the emptiness of the years that still had to be lived. Days passed, and weeks, and no one said her name.

There's always the literature cure. Take a big box of books out to the desert and read until things shift. Bleak House can cure anything." Lewis smacked the steering wheel. "Bleak House is about my favorite fucking book in the world.

Life is too short to dwell in the negativity all the time.

My cat mocks me frequently. It's the universe's way of keeping me from getting too big of an ego.

Does talking to yourself in the voice of your fictional character count as being social?

God's questions are often designed not to extract answers but to provoke thought.

Jesus tells us in Luke 14:28 that before we undertake anything we should count the cost. Usually price is advertised, but cost is hidden.

there comes a time when you measure how much you have to lose!

After all, memoirs are not open doors into another person's house. They are more like broken windows, with the owner trying to explain away all of the damage.