Quotes About Realization

Her goodness had limits. She could have easily gone her whole life without knowing those limits, but now she knew exactly where they lay.

You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door But you are the key that opens it Rumi

Sometimes your life changes so slowly and imperceptibly that you don't notice it at all until one day you wake up and think: How did I get here?

It occurred to Jacob that a man who could take such pleasure in watching someone else's children compete in a backyard tennis match would probably have quite liked at least one athletic child of his own, rather than the two uncoordinated, academic kids he got. It said something about his dad that it had taken Jacob thirty-four years for that thought to occur to him.

Didn't the stupid man realize that he no longer had the power to send anyone to their room?

The violence of her thoughts startled her and woke her up. She

Masha smiled. "Good. At first it will feel strange. You will have to fake it. But then you will remember. You will think, 'Oh, that's right, this is how I talk, this is how I walk. This is me, Carmel.'" She knocked her closed fist against her heart. "This is who I am.

She used to think that success was like gold, worth sifting through mud for, and that love would always be there, waiting somehow on the riverbanks for her when she was done panning. She couldn't imagine now why she thought that, given her background. She ought to have recognized love's scarcity early on. If success were gold, lying in rivers, love was a diamond, buried hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the earth and unrecognizable in its natural form.

She realized with a shock that some of the happiest moments of her life had taken place over the last few months.

And then she felt it. It was like when you burn yourself on a hot plate and at first you think, Huh, that should have hurt more, and then it does hurt more, and then all of a sudden it hurts like hell.

You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door But you are the key that opens it

You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely.

Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you'd end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That's how these things always end up, isn't it?

She reached for the glass, realized it was smudged. More pointless revulsion.

When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in - that's when I realized I had a voice.

It was so awful and weird. I could see all the things I had loved about him, I could see them, but I didn't love them anymore.

You don't realize how much effort you've put into covering things up until you dig them out.

I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.

I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. And then I realized I was somebody.

always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. And then I realized I was somebody.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

I did not realize what a gift I had been given until it was too late, forever too late. Must life always be that way?