Quotes About Perception

If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'

I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.

If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.

I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.

Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.

It's just a penis, right? Probably no worse for you than smoking.

Language is power. Words shape the way we interact with the world.

Only girls wear tights. - Nic responds, "Uh,uh. Superman wears tights.

One girl, Nic's friend, says how different the images are in our family's pictures and how intense each one is, but she says that Nic's heart leads into ventricles and my stream of chalk looks like a broken artery. Somehow I am crying. Nic's hand is on my shoulder.

In the car, however, I see a stranger. And yet he is a stranger whose every part I know intimately.

Of course I still want to believe him. I don't think it's simply that I am gullible, but I cannot fathom the implications of his behavior. When change takes place gradually, it's difficult to comprehend its meaning.

The paradox of illuminating complexity is that it is inherently difficult to do so without erasing all of the nuance.

aphorism—"A photograph is a secret about a secret; the more it tells you, the less you know"—

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Prejudice is a shape shifter. It's very agile in taking forms that seem acceptable on the surface.

It feels like it's been a long day but it isn't even lunch time yet.

Religionists have a perceived need, planted there as a part of the brainwashing they've received. They need no religion, but they think they do, because religion has convinced them of it.

Murder often doesn't unsettle a man. In Baltimore, it usually doesn't even ruin his day.

If a drug dealer falls in West Baltimore and no one is there to hear him, does he make a sound?