Quotes About Reflection

You're calling Illium a pretty boy?" Elena snorted, glad to focus on something other than the heavy cloud of death that hung over the city. "Have you looked in a mirror lately?" "I have scars, like any respectable male.

Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.—Nimra, Angel of New Orleans

But the past is not an old coat that can be discarded and forgotten.

Life isn't static, and sometimes, we don't realize the value of knowledge or even of people, until farther down the track, when we're mature enough to truly understand.

Life isn't static, and sometimes, we don't realize the value of knowledge or even of people, until farther down the track, when we're mature enough to truly understand.

I wonder at this age we live in where information must always be at the fingertips. Why does no one value patience?" "Human lives are shorter," she reminded him quietly. "A mortal life must be lived in fast-forward.

Life isn't static, and sometimes, we don't realize the value of knowledge or even of people, until further down the track, when we're mature enough to truly understand.

Why did we think having a cub was a good idea?

Conociéndonos —repitió Max, como si estuviera sopesando sus palabras—.¿Y vas a dejarme entrar, Sophie? —Sí. —Algo muy dentro de ella se removió, algo a un mismo tiempo oscuro... y solitario. Infinita y absolutamente solitario—. Quédate conmigo, Max.

The choice we make at the fork in the road can define our very existence. - Lord Deryn Mercant (Circa 1506)

Foolish boy," she'd said quietly as the two of them stood in the midst of the eerily blooming rose garden. "Now he will never have a chance to gain wisdom.

In her madder moments, Charlotte sometimes wondered if he was rough in bed or if he had tenderness in him.

You can't simply blame another." It was lazy and absolved one party of responsibility in a circumstance that both'd had a chance to influence. "I say that as a woman who so long blamed Aegaeon for what I became. But I" — she slapped a hand over her chest — "made choices along the way.

In another life, she could've been a professor. In this life, she'd been a rich man's wife. Now, she was just bones.

conclusions from his dreams, he thought the next morning as he dressed

I'm happy to be here," he thought to himself as he shined an old woman's mirror, "and I know this is better than the Great Swamp of Ink, but it isn't what I expected at all.

Do not ask your future, or you will forget to live in your present.

And what, exactly, am I giving as I'm learning to do this giving thing?

[T]he Truth lies in a bowl of tea.

With time, material things—once we let go—have a way of not having the significance we've pinned to them.

You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by. Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning. —Job 11:16–17

Sadly, that's how life is—the moments are fleeting—in the next breath, they are just memories. And, at the end of our lives, we are left with only that—a collection of memories to warm our hearts, to give us direction, and to offer us a safe haven when the storms of life are overwhelming. But some don't even have that.

Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. —Psalm 90:12

Stand at the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way lies; and walk in it. —Jeremiah 6:16