Quotes About Perception

I suppose, I said, it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see.

Some people write simply because they don't know how to live in the moment and have to reconstruct it and live in it afterwards.

There's a certain point in life at which you realise it's no longer interesting that time goes forward – or rather, that its forward-going-ness has been the central plank of life's illusion, and that while you were waiting to see what was going to happen next, you were steadily being robbed of all you had. Language is the only thing capable of stopping the flow of time, because it exists in time, is made of time, yet it is eternal – or can be.

Whatever we might wish to believe about ourselves, we are only the result of how others have treated us.

the problem with being honest, he said, is that you're slow to realize that other people can lie.

And of those two ways of living - living in the moment and living outside it - which was more real?

A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.

Whenever anyone finds out there are seven kids in my family, the imagine my mom and dad having sex.

Whenever anyone finds out there are seven kids in my family, they imagine my mom and dad having sex.

Most people need some sort of illusion to help 'em along … but that knocks one pretty hard, doesn't it?

You never learn the first time. You always have to get hit twice before you see it coming." He was seeing now what he'd seen that first night at Pure. A bright shiny light he wanted to catch in his hands and hold forever. If she let him.

It was best not to ask too many questions. Especially since you'd get the answers. And the answers were usually followed by a tightening of Kate's forehead and a tick in her left eye. The tightening could cause wrinkles, the tick a tumor, and Kate didn't need to borrow that kind of trouble.

As a kid, he would have given just about anything to touch a naked Barbie, but he'd never been lucky enough to get within ogling distance. Now that he was afforded a good look at her, he discovered she had a scrawny ass and her knees made weird crunching sounds.

So tell me honey," he said just above a whisper, "what's got your beautiful eyes so sad?

Devon Hamilton-Zemaitis was a beautiful woman. Being dead didn't change that.

Pratite me do sobe?« upitala je i ne pokuÅ¡avajuci prikriti razdražljivost. »Da.« Ali ni on nije zvucao sretno zbog toga. »ZaÅ¡to? Ne morate me pratiti do sobe.« »Ja sam drag momak.« Trpko se nasmijala i pogledala ga krajickom oka. »Ako to stvarno mislite, gadno se varate. Možda su vas previÅ¡e puta udarili u glavu.«

The scariest thing about crazy people is that they can look so normal - Rob Sutter

You're beautiful," he said. "I'm as big as cow." "A beautiful cow." She chuckled. "I'm fat." "You're not fat." (Stella & Beau)

He did not know the truth of me, yet he had perceived something true about me that no one else had ever noticed. And in spite of that—or perhaps because of it—he believed me good, believed me worth taking seriously, and his belief, for one vertigi-nous moment, made me want to be better than I was.

I mistook you for a metaphor.

How dare the world be beautiful when I was so horrifying?

The borderlands of madness used to have much sterner signage around them than they do now.

The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.

Maybe the world isn't really different, but I am different, and I am in the world.