Quotes About Introspection

In her parents' house, things had been good or bad, right or wrong, useful or wasteful. There had been nothing in between. Here, she found, everything had nuance; everything had an unrevealed side or unexplored depths. Everything was worth looking at more closely.

she'd never known. No, she admitted to herself: she'd never chosen to know.

She knew at last where everything had gone wrong. And she knew where she had to go.

a moment, she said, in which we decide who we are.

Tinha a sensação de ter mergulhado em um lago fundo e transparente, e então de ter descoberto que na verdade era uma lagoa rasa, que batia no seu joelho. O que podia fazer? Bem, tinha que se levantar, limpar os joelhos sujos, tirar os pés da lama. E tomar mais cuidado. Ele saberia, dali em diante, que o mundo era um lugar menor do que imaginara.

Was she the bird trying to batter its way free, or was she the cage?

He had not been praying, but dreaming - which, she would realize later, came to almost the same thing.

His skin feels too small for his thoughts.

Everything seems new. The outlines of his furniture. The sunbeams slicing across the carpet. His hands before his face.

I stället ställde hon den fråga som flöt under alla de andra frågorna som en djup underjordisk flod. »Var jag önskad?«

The way he hadn't even glanced at them, as if he were focused on something far-off on the horizon or deep, deep in the past.

You could figure out anything about a person if you just tried hard enough.

In the rearview mirror she caught a glimpse of her reflection, and instead of being embarrassed to see herself stripped so naked and vulnerable, she admired the pale gleam of her own skin against the white of her bra.

inquisitive chirp, a self that curled up at the edges.

I realize that I am not happy with the life I lead. I always had one kind of life in mind and things have turned out very differently.

Era impossível equivocar-se. Reconheceu-o de imediato: amor, uma adoração não correspondida que saltava mas não ressaltava; amor cauteloso e plácido que não se importava e prosseguia de qualquer forma. Era demasiado familiar para a surpreender. De dentro dela, algo se esticou e envolveu Jack como um xaile, mas ele não reparou.

Later, slowly, they will piece together other things that have never been said.

?nsanlar kötüydü, kitaplara s???nd?m.

Orospula?mak veya yaln?z kalmak: ??te fikir adam?n?n kaderi.

Tanzimattan bu yana Türk ayd?n?n?n al?nyaz?s? iki kelimede dü?ümleniyordu: aldanmak ve aldatmak. Senaryoyu ba?kalar? haz?rlam??t?, biz sadece birer oyuncuyduk. Nesiller bir ütopyan?n kurban? olmu?lard?… Avrupa'y? tan?mak gaflet; Avrupa'y? tan?yan ülkeisnden kopuyor. Bu lanet çemberinden nas?l kurtulaca??z? (Ma?aradakiler, s,323)

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it better.

Ti ride negli occhi la stranezza di un cielo che non è il tuo.

I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.

The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.