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Quotes About Perception

If I was crazy, would I know it? That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.
~ Kelley Armstrong
We are imprisoned by the truth we dare not see. We are imprisoned by the questions we dare not ask.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Sure. You get all slutty with Rafe. You freak out. You cry date rape drug.' - Hayley
~ Kelley Armstrong
Dont talk to the crazy kids. I longed to shout back that we weren't crazy. I'd mistaken her kid for a ghost, that's all.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Don't give me that look," I told the cat. "You've caught one mouse since you've been here. And what do you get in return? Food, shelter, and a human servant to clean up your shit. You didn't even warn me when someone was at the door." "Because his sixth sense tells him I can be trusted." "Then his sixth sense is broken.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I'm not a shrink. Never been to one. Shot a couple. Don't think that counts.
~ Kelley Armstrong
As he talked, I thought, "Maybe I'm wrong about the guy." Put him with someone like Anna Gunderson, a nice woman who has suffered a great tragedy, and his empathetic side came out. And then I realized he was faking it.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Schizo. It didn't matter how many times Dr. Gill compared it to a disease or physical disability, it wasn't the same thing. It just wasn't. I had schizophrenia. If I saw two guys on the sidewalk, one in a wheelchair and one talking talking to himself, which would I rush to open a door for, and which would I cross the road to avoid?
~ Kelley Armstrong
Don't talk to the crazy kids. I longed to shout back that we weren't crazy. I'd mistaken her kid for a ghost, that's all.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Guess it didn't matter if it was a group home or summer camp, guys and their stomachs didn't change.
~ Kelley Armstrong
It looked like I was the dead itself, and that isn't something someone should aspire to look like.
~ Kelley Armstrong
There were women, too. They were a little more what I expected. Tight jeans. Tank tops without bras. Evening makeup at noon. Jersey hair. The general vibe varied from "wouldn't look out of place on a corner of 47th" to "could work at a really nice strip club.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I don't doubt tall, dark, and seriously cute had a vision, but I'm still going to wait for Kit's call on this one. Did she just call me cute? Corey said. Hayley turned on Tori. Did you just flirt with my boyfriend? Boyfriend? Corey said. Are you coming? I asked Corey. Or staying to flirt back? Bossy, isn't she? Tori said. Yeah, I think it's hot, Corey said with a grin.
~ Kelley Armstrong
My foggy brain slid away and— And I was still dressed in only my bra and panties. Well, at least it's a nice set of bra and panties. Yep, these were the thoughts going through my brain as I looked at a photo of a decapitated head on my bed.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Chloe isn't flirting with that guy," Simon said. "Course not." "I mean it. She's—" I glanced back at him. "I'm not blind. She's only paying enough attention to him to be polite. He's the one flirting, which is bugging her and that's why I'm pissed off. She's trying to eat her fries and he's interrupting." Simon chuckled.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Jeremy shifted to the left, blocking my view of Clay, as if we were Siamese fighting fish that wouldn't attack if we couldn't see each other. "Come
~ Kelley Armstrong
If a bird flies straight at you, prepare for a bad day.
~ Kelley Armstrong
That's the true reveal in Rockton. Not discovering someone lied about their background or committed a crime in their past. It's finding out they aren't the person you thought they were, their underlying character hidden behind a false front.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Yep, Gin and Brandi. Call me crazy, but naming your daughters after alcoholic beverages is just asking for trouble.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Vechea mea viata mi se parea ca un vis- un vis in cea mai mare pate placut, lipsit de evenimente . Acum ma trezisem din ele si imi dadusem seama cine si ce eram , cu bune si cu rele. Nu exista nici o cale de a inchide ochii si a aluneca inapoi in acel fericit vis al normalului. Acesta era normalul meu acum.
~ Kelley Armstrong
His eyes met mine, and I looked into them and I felt... I don't know what I felt. A strange nameless something I couldn't even identify as a good something or a bad something, could only feel in my gut, jumping and twitching, until I turned away and looked out over the forest
~ Kelley Armstrong
Jeremy shifted to the left, blocking my view of Clay, as if we were Siamese fighting fish that wouldn't attack if we couldn't see each other.
~ Kelley Armstrong
My fourteen-year-old sister Lara is a brat. Unfortunately, no one sees it but me. To everyone else, she's adorable. She's tiny and blonde and sweet and as helpless as a kitten. Chloe reminded me of Lara, at first. The difference, as I discovered, is that Chloe really is as sweet as she seems and she isn't as helpless as she looks.
~ Kelley Armstrong
He looked around as if expecting a posse of armed gunmen to round the corner at any moment. When footsteps sounded, he tensed, muscles bunching, prepared to leap up and defend us against-- Two preteen boys passed the alcove. One of them saw us and whispered to his friend. They grinned our way and shot Daniel a thumbs-up. When they'd gone by, I pushed him off me. "Okay, I might have overreacted," he said as we sat up. "You think?
~ Kelley Armstrong