Quotes About Perception

Sexy is in your head and you don't feel sexy so you don't look it.

It had looked so simple when she'd made it, but when he cut into it and tasted it, he realized he'd missed some stuff while he'd been making coffee. There were herbs in there or spices or something, and the egg was light- Fluffy , he thought- and the pepper still had crunch to it but was buttery, too.

What were you saying, Agnes? Taylor said, his smile widening. I was saying you're an evil moron whom fate and karma are going to take care of, Agnes said. Now your line is 'Who's Fate and Karma, and what did I ever do to them?' That's not funny, Taylor said. Agnes looked at Mr. Harrison. I thought it was a little funny, didn't you? A little, he said, smiling. Taylor glared at him and he shrugged.

There are lots of people who rewrite their past and, what's more, believe it themselves. Now that is odd.

You go to a party or whatever, and you spend the whole night zeroing in on the woman in red, the blonde in the corner, the girl with the big laugh, and then, as you are leaving, you see someone out of the corner of your eye, her hair glinting in the light, her long neck tilted slightly as she listens intently to the person next to her. And you know she's the one you should of talked to.

Sunny's eyes widened at the size of his erection. She'd always thought it was a line of baloney that size didn't matter and it was all in knowing what to do with it.

I've been the way he's being now, acting tough about things that really hurt me, and I can see right through to the truth.

If you keep hearing negative things about yourself, they start to seep into your consciousness and you start to feel like they're true. They cloud who you know you really are and you can lose yourself.

Sometimes I think life would be so much easier if we didn't have to think about being boys or girls or men or women or old or young, fat or thin… if we could all just be certain we were the same. We might be bored, but the danger of life and of living would be gone.

Mi sono accorta subito che Lawrence era attratto da me. L'importante non era questo, ma l'origine della sua attrazione. Si era innamorato delle due Laure, proprio della ragione per cui desideravo disperatamente morire. Quella che io consideravo come una maledizione, per lui era una cosa eccitante e onesta. Non rideva della mia sofferenza. L'accettava.

A volte penso di aver qualcuno dentro, ma è un'altra parte di me, più strana. A volte la vedo nello specchio.

Cool isn't about where you go. It's a way of looking at the world.

The difference between bitter and better is I.

Hefty? I'd railed to Peter, waving the clipping for emphasis. Hefty? For the record 'Hefty' is a trash bag. I'm festively plump.

If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?

thinking that the world was like an orange, that I could split it open with my thumbnail and find a whole different world, the grown-up world, the secrets beneath the skin.

Still waters run deep, I'd thought. Later, I learned that silence did not necessarily guarantee depth.

And here's the good news: even if things don't get better, you can always make them look good on the internet.

Just a regular gal, Jo thought, and smiled, thinking, If you only knew.

Maybe when you first experience a place as a six-year-old, you become six again, every time you return.

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When you're angry, everything looks like a target. There are a lot of angry people in the world and these days, they're all online.

È un libro sull'amore capace di trascendere l'aspetto fisico, su come la bellezza sia un confine arbitrario e facile da superare, su come due persone possono entrare in sintonia nonostante le differenze fisiche, su come possono innamorarsi malgrado il loro aspetto esteriore li separi dal resto del mondo.

Have you ever considered that there might be something wrong with your brain? Oh, I think there might be something wrong with everyone else's.

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When you're angry, everything looks like a target. There are a lot of angry people in the world. And these days, they're all online