Quotes About Reflection

From the movie Everything is Illuminated based on a book by Jonathan Safran Foer: I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us, on the inside, looking out. Like you say, inside out. Jonathan, in this way, I will always be along the side of your life. And you will always be along the side of mine.

It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.

Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written.

Yesterday I wanted to turn inside out.

She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.

In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?

We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.

I've thought myself out of happinessone one million times, but never once into it.

Years were passing through the spaces between moments.

AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST?

My boots were so heavy that I was glad there was a column beneath us. How could such a lonely person have been living so close to me my whole life? If I had known, I would have gone up to keep him company.

I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.

Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of...

Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.

It is better to lose than never to have had.

How did her life live itself without her.

In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so on, reflecting backward to the beginning of time, to the face of God, in whose image we were created.

I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, and how can I get back?

What does it remember like?

It's better to lose than to never have had.

but I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.

Life is precious, Jacob thought. The most important of all thoughts, and the most obvious, and the most difficult to remember to have. How different my life would have been if I could have had that thought before I was forced to.

I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights off. It felt like crying. We could not look at each other. It always had to be from behind. Like that first time. And I knew he wasn't thinking of me. He squeezed my sides so hard, and pushed so hard. Like he was trying to push me through to somewhere else. Why does anyone ever make love?

I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.