Quotes About Introspection

She didn't like herself like this, either. But she couldn't go back to being the girl she'd been before she met him; that girl was gone. So where did that leave her?

Trixie seesawed between wishing everyone would leave her alone and wondering why everyone treated her like a leper.

If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you don't bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you.

You can feel people staring; it's like heat that rises from the pavement during summer, like a poker in the small of your back. You don't have to hear a whisper, either, to know that it's about you.

people who didn't talk about their problems got to pretend they didn't have any. People who discussed what was wrong, on the other hand, fought and ached and felt miserable.

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you

What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline cracks.

When you fall in love, it's because you find someone who fills all your empty spaces. When you fall out of love, it's because you realize that you're both broken.

It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all.

it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

So you see, the real question isn't how I left this world to go to the woods. It's how I made myself come back.

It's almost as if I had to stop running in order to see myself clearly, and what I see is a person who's been driving toward a goal for so long she can't remember why she set it in the first place.

It is also a terrifying prospect: that the relationships we use as cornerstones of our personalities are not given by default but are a choice... p 231

I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

That…sucks." I shrug. "It is what it is," I tell her. "The point is, if someone abandons you, it may be less about you and more about them.

If you want to feel sorry for yourself," Mary continues, "then do it in a way that isn't going to destroy other people's lives.

Doesn't it count for anything if Josef wishes he hadn't done it?" Leo looks at me. "What counts," he says, "is that he did."  Ã¢â'¬Â¢

slowly in the tide of our opinions, oblivious that we are taking on water every time we open our mouths.

She wanted to get at the hate of them all, to pry at it and work at it until she found a little chink, and then pull out a pebble or a stone or a brick and then a part of the wall, and, once started, the whole edifice might roar down and be done away with. —RAY BRADBURY, THE ILLUSTRATED MAN

I also know that when you're in the thick of living your life, you don't often get to push pause and reflect on it. It's just really hard to sit in the moment, and not worry if pause is going to turn into stop.

sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.

but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.  Ã¢â'¬Â¢

And there is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.