Quotes About Realization

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would... and then someone passed me a bit of some sweet stuff, and suddenly I realized that I had been to China. So to speak. And I'd forgotten it.

There was nothing that could be gained by wishing for it.

Because Lyra now realized, if she hadn't done so before, that all the fear in her nature was drawn to Mrs. Coulter as a compass needle drawn to the Pole.

Ik wist niet eens dat u Alice heette. - Lyra

Todo hombre está en poder de su espectro hasta que llega la hora en que su humanidad despierta… William Blake

We're like . . . like dinosaurs bedazzled by all the pretty lights in the sky, too fucking stupid to realise it's a comet getting closer and closer.

The messiness of marriage and children and career and all that—I've already realized the futility of it all without having had to go through it all.

I have been trying to think clearly about everything and to use all this distance to advantage. And here is what I've discovered. I don't love you, Ishmael.

As Michael Cunningham would later write in his novel The Hours, I thought what I was feeling was the beginning of happiness. In fact, it was happiness.

God does not give us desires that cannot be realized.

self-actualization.

When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply realize that you have to? When the club closes or when you everyone leaves? It's over when you decide it's over, she says. When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky.

I am having a fucking great time, and the amazing thing is that I realize it even as it's happening.

The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it.

I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been. We don't have the words for it, since we hadn't yet learned the words. It must have been astonishing, to be given the key to the kingdom and see it turn in our hands so easily.

I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.

for the first time in my life i realize why hangers are called hangers, because after fifteen minutes of trying things on and throwing them aside, all i want to do is hook one to the top of my closet door, lean my neck into the loop, and let my weight fall.

having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.

I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent; it just had to be something you lived with.

I've known this for a while, but you can know something for years without it really hitting you.

You don't know, but I'm noticing.

I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is.

This isn't even something I've feared, because I never knew it was a possibility.

this is what i never allowed myself to need. and of course what i've been needing all along.