Quotes About Realization

She was given no immediate answer, she only knew that somewhere a door had opened inside her and that it would be impossible to close it from now on.

she had come to realise of late that when one faced oneself, one found some displeasing facets, and one of them was a strong will, which became wilfulness when displayed at Amy's age.

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

We are all unworthy of a good woman's love," I answered. "But, thank Heaven, the good women don't seem to realise it.

Funny how a thing like that can be so damned important, but you don't know it's important until an instant later in the big scheme of time. Then you go back and try to retrieve it. You tell yourself it's in there somewhere. But it's really in that no-man's-land of the moment before you woke up and started paying attention to your own life.

Hmm," he said. "Like the world is big again. No. Not again. Like I only thought it had gotten small while I was inside, but now I see it was big the whole time, just waiting out there. Waiting for me to come back.

Thank you for letting me know I have a knower. Not that you ever told me I did, exactly. But when you told me you did, that there were things you knew with your knower, I checked inside myself. Imagine my surprise.

get it. How did you not know?

it's a weird feeling to get well when you never even knew you'd been sick. I thought it was just normal, how I felt. And then it got better, and I thought, Damn.

Raymond opened his mouth to say something. But he was still unclear on what the something would be. Part of him wanted to express what a big deal it was. Bigger than her words had tried to make it out to be. But it seemed unlikely that he would say a thing like that. He never had before.

Questioned where it was hiding. Maybe it was because he

you can't even begin to heal until it strikes you that something needs healing.

I see the sun, high overhead, and then I know. This darkness doesn't belong to the night. It belongs to me.

When he woke in the morning, his father still had not come back. That was when Remy fully came to understand fear. He thought he had felt it all along. But in that fulcrum of a moment, he realized he had only understood a sort of miniature fear, like fear's little brother.

Just for a moment, Ethan felt his view of life, of the world, stretched painfully. He had never realized that something so frightening could also be beautiful. That a sight could strike fear into his heart and at the same time make him feel privileged to have seen it.

Looking back, she couldn't believe she'd been so naive, so blind. She

Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.

Adults make mistakes too. And sometimes it can take a while before they realise it.

I always thought my physical identity was the problem, but writing made me realize that even without myself present, I still couldn't rise above myself, which pitched me into a kind of despair.

Odd how being away could teach you about home.

But some things on earth were possible, and some were not, and Ruti knew the difference.

It was only then that I realized the distance between uncle and nephew wasn't nearly as great as I'd assumed.

It was not until much later when, after a deep and satisfying orgasm, I suddenly realised the true meaning of the fairy tale and the nature of the magic kiss of which it speaks.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.