Quotes About Perception

This really isn't fair," Mena said. "What is 'fair'?" asked one of the watchers called Devoth. "I don't know this word.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

He stared at me like he wanted to shoot me. It happens to some young men when you give them a uniform.

And, unlike British and American women, we do not go around with a hatchet in our hand trying to chop the balls off every man we meet. Because we want—and need—our men to be men. Real men. Not macho assholes, not gorillas, men. Fathers in peace, lions in war.

I'm not getting old," Harry said, "I'm already old.

All I've gotta do is look at a steak wrong and I gain five pounds.

There is absolutely nothing certain in this world, Noah, other than the truth you see directly in front of your eyes at a given moment. Truth has a habit of mutating itself; it is always possible that, no matter what the evidence in front of you might suggest, there can be another explanation for any event you can imagine.

think he understands that you wouldn't do that

Barking dogs, Sam knew from sad experience, weren't regarded with the same respect they once had been. There was a time when a barking dog would cause the homeowner to get up and look out the windows, just to make sure no one was prowling around the yard. Nowadays, though, most people simply wished the dog would shut up.

Do you always have to keep your claws out and sharp? Has it ever occurred to you that some of us might just want to be friendly?

Nothing, however, lasts forever. Two weeks can seem like a lifetime when you are just beginning it, but the last day always seems to have come too quickly. It was finally time to head back to the real world,

wasn't as pleasant lately, Sam thought, as he made his way through the back entry to the detectives' division. There weren't so many people there

True freedom is freedom from the illusion of morality, from the belief that there is good and evil. There is only power, Mr. Mason.

I showed her a plastic card that said I was with the Pentagon's Office of the Director of Intelligence which was true in an abstract sense; like Picasso's people with both eyes on the same side of their face.

little man syndrome

It's the same old conundrum. You couldn't ask questions about self-awareness until you became self-aware, but you couldn't become self-aware until you were able to grasp the concept of self-awareness.

There is no time in the mind,

There is absolutely nothing certain in this world, Noah, other than the truth you see directly in front of your eyes at a given moment. Truth has a habit of mutating itself; it is always possible that, no matter what the evidence in front of you might suggest, there can be another explanation for any event you can imagine. All

She pointed through the windshield at the intersection with First Street. "That is the intersection with First Street NE. I can pretend it's the intersection with Fifth Street as long as I like, but it won't change the fact. It is what it is.

There, in the dirty sludge of a winter highway, he learned for the first time that a lot of life is all in the mind.

know anything about, and so far, the

as I weaved and wended my dappled way toward Jackson Lane, I felt certain nobody here would ever commit an impolite crime, and whatever crimes they did commit, they would never be so vulgar as to get caught.

realizes it's her own loneliness that she sees in him.