Quotes About Perception

This was me, the real me, and Spider was the only person ever to have found me, to see me for who I was. And I saw him too.

I can't stand men crying. It's wrong, isn't it? Their faces aren't made for it, they kind of crumple; it's painful to watch.

Most people think the big challenge is having adults take you seriously, but as long as you go into meetings confident and prepared, they respect you. And a lot of my employees think that it's cool to be working for a young entrepreneur,

Letter [December to Persephone] Am I the only one to notice the soft layer of haze above snow? You say you see butterflies in the skeleton pelvis, well, what about the larger hand of the clock? Or a cauldron for boiling water? Did you, do you ever stop falling?" I repeat your name a word it almost means nothing Do you remember encyclopedias? I piled up the books so you could reach the table. Now the only way to recall you is the shape of your walking away.

But do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it's painted.

The eyes themselves were the eyes of a writer, always a little tired in expression.

Reuben grinned and chewed more vigorously than ever; he had the measure of his master's foot to a nicety. The sun felt actually hot, and Hilary, in his heavy tweeds, began to be less inclined for the long walk over stubbly fields. His eye roved for a suitable place to rest, which he finally discovered under a hedge.

Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.

Just 'cause you feel it doesn't mean it's there

You'd kill yourself for regognition, kill yourself to never ever stop. You broke there mirror, you're turning into something your not.

Metaphor forms a crust beneath which the crevasse of each experience.

I'm composed largely of what the streets and rooms look like, of how to arrive 'just' here.

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

We sleep together in the dark but confuse light with love.

Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief.

The jacaranda, for instance, is beautiful but not serious.

The new pop song is about getting real: "You had a bad day." The camera don't lie. But they're lying to you about the camera.

I existed finally as the idea of temporal extension.

Annie watched them all walk together, like sleepwalkers, she thought, jackrabbits trying to outrun them. The two ends of the line pulled in to form a semicircle, a giant net of humanity. *

Maybe God posted signs visible only to those with eyes to see. She wasn't one of them, but she could accept that maybe her husband was.

the eyes see faster than the hand moves

Why are you still single, Ruben? Seriously. You're great with kids and close to your own family. You're gorgeous – that goes without saying – have a fairly decent job and appear to have all your teeth. What am I missing?

You mean, you think he's hotter than a billy goat with a blowtorch?" Hazel asked.

she had been overweight but she knew plenty of other big girls who were popular and well-liked and had dates all the time.