Quotes About Intuition

There are some situations which men understand by instinct, but which reason is powerless to explain.

The movement of the arm, the sound of the voice, and the agility of the body were wanting, but the speaking eye sufficed for all.

The eyes of a woman who loves are not easily deceived.

A woman's eye can read the face of the man she loves, its every feeling of pride, its every expression of suffering; it might almost be said that Heaven has graciously granted to women, on account of their very weakness, more than it has accorded to other creatures.

Follow your heart but take your brain with you.

Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it like a flash of lightning? Like an angel tapping you on the shoulder? Or is it similar to choosing a puppy? You think you're picking the cutest one, but really you wind up going home with the one who keeps insisting on climbing into your lap.

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.

she wonders if she has something other people don't. Intuition or hope -- she wouldn't know what to call it.

Dreams came to men for many reasons, both as oracles and as warnings.

Seeing has little to do with opening your eyes; it's what you feel inside that counts, it's what you know without anyone telling you.

Franny whispered to Haylin all that she ever was and had been. She told him that she had always known what the future would be, and he said that if what she said was true, then she should have known a very long time ago that this was meant to be.

I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.

A familiar is such a creature, an animal or bird that sees inside to the very soul of its human companion, and knows what others might not. What fears there might be, and what joys, for it shares the emotions of its human partner.

Some people are who you think they are. Some people hide the wolf inside of them, but you can hear them howl.

Close your eyes and listen, then walk twenty paces farther than you thought necessary. Just when you're certain you've lost your way completely, you'll be there. Open your eyes.

You can never tell about a person by guessing.

She has never told anyone, but she knew as soon as she saw him that she'd marry Ivan. It was less love at first sight than some deep knowledge that he was the man she would someday fall in love with.

Close your eyes and listen, such people advised, then walk twenty paces farther than you thought necessary. Just when you're certain you've lost your way completely, you'll be there. Open your eyes.

Maybe the most recent card is a message from the great beyond. Shelby can't stop thinking it might have been sent by Helene. She knows this is impossible; all the same, soon afterward she finds herself headed to Lewiston Street, where the Boyds live.

She had the ability to spot a liar, except for the lies spoken by someone she loved. That's what had caught her up; she'd been distracted by love, which seemed, at least at the time, to be the truest thing in the world.

Keep the light out, have faith, trust in what you feel, not in what you see. Leave the matches at home. Leave it be.

had felt a chill, as if she brought the future with her, clinging to her clothes.

Standing at her window, Anne was enchanted to see the buds that would soon be opening into white stars. Perhaps the magnolia spoke to her, and if it did, it told her that no man with ill intentions would travel with a large, flowering tree.