Quotes About Realization

In his arms he carried Anne, whose head lay limply against his shoulder. At that moment Marilla had a revelation. In the sudden stab of fear that pierced to her very heart she realized what Anne had come to mean to her. She would have admitted that she liked Anne — nay, that she was very fond of Anne. But now she knew as she hurried wildly down the slope that Anne was dearer to her than anything on earth.

Vaya, los buenos corazones no son tan escasos como yo creía! ¡Es maravilloso saber que el mundo está lleno de ellos!

In that moment Marilla had a revelation. In the sudden stab of fear that pierced to her very heart she realized what Anne had come to mean to her. She would have admitted that she liked Anne - nay, that she was very fond of Anne. But now she knew as she hurried wildly down the slope that Anne was dearer to her than anything on earth.

That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

If you're planning on dying today I hope you dig your grave first.

In the vastness of the desert, each reduction of the group made them realize how small they were, how puny, in relation to the space they were traveling through.

It struck her that endings were never as you would expect them to be.

I didn't know people had that much blood in them," Gus said. "I thought we was mostly bone inside." Call didn't admit it, but he had the same belief; but from what he had seen that morning, it seemed that people were really just sacks of blood with legs and arms stuck on them.

Softly Louis asked, When did you figure this out? Some time ago. It did not seem important to our survival.

Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know until it is happening.

Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know it until it is happening.

Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know it until it is happening.

Never, never, never could one conceive what love is beforehand, never. —D. H. Lawrence, after meeting his future wife

Sure, writing has its moments of sublimity - grasping after the ineffable, realizing something just out of reach - yet at every instance modulated by the chronic substratum of shame about having taken a dump in public. - Humiliation Artists

Hope erodes slowly, over time, until you wake up one night at three o'clock in the morning and realize: I am not meant for that kind of thing.

Had Richard really proposed? Had I really said yes? Surely not. I had said yes. Shit.

I started to say something, but Richard said, "Come on, Anita. We have to go now." He was right. I could kill a lot of them, but not all. I hadn't brought a spare clip for the machine gun. I hadn't thought I'd need it. Silly me. We

shook my head. "This is too easy." "Don't worry. Something will go wrong soon." He continued down the corridor, and I followed. It took me three steps to realize Edward had made a joke. The

I was suddenly overwhelmed with the knowledge that this was a moment to pay attention to: this day, this air, these two people. I felt the perfection of the moment and, inside of it, I felt its demise.

I always complained about my mother's stony heart. Turns out I'm built just the same.

Home was still hellish, afire with the painful realization that no matter how much I loved my parents my love could not fix them

Light had dawned in the utter darkness.

You know what I realized?" "What?" "Most of the people I know are dead. I guess that happens

The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.