Quotes About Insight

I knew you better than anyone else. I was sure of it.

We thought there was a wall around our story. But what if there were windows?

Seeing it erases any premonitions I might have had, because even if I felt something was wrong, I never would have pictured this.

We listen to songs to figure them out, to unravel the mystery of the words and the tune.

You can tell a lot about a person based on the pages he or she journals on

I can tell from the glint in her eyes that she's at least an acquaintance of Dorothy.

And one of the values is the way being lost can lead you to see what you want to find. It helps you sense where you want to be found. Or who you want to be found by.

I don't think meaning is something that can be explained. You have to understand it on your own. It's like when you're starting to read...it's that leap, that understanding, that leads to meaning.

How genius to call them thumbnails, because what part of the body tells us less?

I'd thought I remembered her perfectly. But it is much better to see her imperfectly, to see something new every time she moves.

When people say love is blind, they act like that's a good thing. But some people find their way around in the darkness a little better than others.

I knew she didn't suffer fools gladly, but she'd gladly make a fool suffer.

You can tell a lot about a person from the pages he or she chooses to journal on.

Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself?

What we are saying is that we did see. And what did we do? We acted blind, and we moved on. That is not the gospel.

love sometimes causes you to do stupid things. And even when the lessons are clear to everyone else around you, sometimes you have a hard time seeing them yourself. When people say love is blink, they act like that's a good thing. But some people find their way around in the darkness a little better than others.

there's something important about going back to books you've already read. You will always find new thing inside or have new reaction to characters you thought you already knew well. You learn more about the story and you also learn more about yourself as a reader, and where you are in life.

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

He knows he is missing something. He is always missing something. He can never get past the first step of finding it, which is knowing what it is.

He hates surface talk. He wants to dive right through it. With anyone. Because anyone he talks to seems to have something worthwhile to say.

Sei disso há algum tempo, mas você pode saber de algo durante anos sem que isso realmente o atinja.

Insight, n.: How telling that there isn't anything called "outsight," as if language itself knows the direction that wisdom must come from. — David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011)

But I reckon to tell you there are soft truths, too. It doesn't always have to be like running into a wall. Sometimes it's just like waking up.

Observar o mundo de cima, e ficar a sós comigo mesmo. Aquilo, descobri, era do que eu precisava.