Quotes About Introspection

nothing I could do to you will be as terrible as what you'll do to yourself.

And now she was sixteen and felt like she had no imagination left.

Perhaps I am foolish, but I am not a fool.

it cost me something to be the way I am. But I do not know what. And I don't know if I can get it back. I don't even know if I want it.

La ausencia aminora las pequeñas pasiones y agranda las grandes.

Looking back, Val knew she had a habit of trusting too much, being too passive, too willing to believe the best of others and the worst of herself.

In the darkness, everything is different. The air feels thick. My skin itches. I close my eyes, but that just plunges me deeper into nothingness. It's like being out in space, drifting, without even the comfort of stars. It's like being buried in the earth, buried in my past, buried and trying to dig my way out.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves something important, something so important we don't tell ourselves in a very straightforward way. Sometimes we can only do it with a new face.

He knew what he was, what depths of depravity and cruelty he had plumbed, what ambitions drove him. He prided himself on knowing those things—but that didn't mean he needed anyone else to see them as well.

Call went through much of the next day in a daze.

We have lived in our armour for so long, you and I. And now I am not sure if either of us knows how to remove it.

I have often wondered if my past is the reason I am the way I am, if it has made me monstrous. If so, will I make a monster out of him"?

is the soul.

I consider all the things I have done to become a worthy adversary of him, but maybe I haven't been fighting Cardan at all. Maybe I've been figting my own shadow.

What would I become if I sttoped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong?

There are many things I don't know, but I know a great deal about imprisonment.

And I'm not afraid of your trying to figure out what it means to be your whole self

I am a solitary creature, fated to be one and better as one. Forgetting that is what got me into trouble.

I have done the thing, and now I must live with what I have done. I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me.

I know you're angry with me...' I begin. 'Am I?' he asks, looking up at me as though there is a bitter taste in his mouth. 'Maybe I'm glad that you gave me an opportunity to be my worst self.

It turns out I am far from done with making mistakes.

She'd been afraid of herself. Somebody needed to keep her in check, and so that person became Charlie herself. Making sure she got knocked down every time things were going well, picking the wrong people to love, getting fired from jobs, screwing up. Charlie had been walking away from herself her whole life.

I'm kind of a coward about love", she continued, "I said i wished boys would show me some secret side of themselves, but you did, and now all i wanna do is run away.

Her mind would careen along one path and then another, making imaginary moves and countermoves, a chess game played against herself to no purpose except indulging her anxiety. A snake eating its own tail and then choking on it.