Quotes About Introspection

When someone tells you who they are, you need to believe them.

What do you do when there are no passing planes?

Hi there! You're cute. Do you have any girlfriends? 'Cause Gran says Momma needs a man in her life. Then Pops says, 'Pfft, Martine, the last thing Elise needs is a man!' But I think my Gran is right." "Rennie, for tonight, let's play the think-about-what-we-say-before-we-say-it-game.

Because I know more and more that this glass here is so very dark, that this really is a long loneliness, that it is both lonely and long.

When something needs to be fixed, when I need something to change, my first and abiding instinct is to read. I think I can read my way to a solution. Or at least an evasion.

While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one.

For the first time in my life, I fully understand the expression "I can't hear myself think.

Being humble, I think, is one of the most underrated character traits around.

I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.

I hadn't been "possessed", after all. Not by an angel or a demon. Maybe there were aspects of both inside me, but I was the one who chose which to let out.

You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move on.

I scowled. I could resist it all I wanted, but I did understand what he was trying to explain. How sometimes he pieces of who you thought you were didn't add up to who you really were, like with me not standing up for Patrick when he wore those pants.

But if I didn't know Kate, then maybe I didn't know myself-and if was that not-knowing that made my gut clench. Like losing your balance, that whoosh of almost falling, before pulling yourself back in line.

Sometimes the things we hide—aren't they the parts of us that matter most?

My tears were not hot and salty,and I imagined them melting my heart.They didn´t.They just made it mushy around the edges.

You said you've changed...But I'm just wondering if you really have. If you've, you know, looked inside yourself to figure out what you need to change.

Sometimes the things we hide—aren't the parts of us that matter most.

I am Winnie's pee! I thought. Hear me roar! It was times like these when I wondered if everyone really was as strange as I was, or if I was just a special case.

the window was down and my music was blasting and i was like, i am the sun on my skin. i am the clouds in the sky. i'm everything i've ever seen or done or felt or heard, and one day i will be gone.

It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That's just not how I work. I don't think I can be fixed.

Sometimes, in the movie theater or the supermarket, I look around at people who I suppose live their lives without a chemical crutch, and they amaze me.

How do you describe emptiness? Is it the air inside a bubble, the darkness in a pocket, snow? I think, yes, I was six when or seven when I first felt it, the dwindling that is depression.

In real time, darkness might last eight hours, but in psychological time, it can go for vast stretches.

I'm not denying that he's a terrific guy, but I'm not sure he's terrific for me.