Quotes About Perception

We all understand that this is just music. We all understand these songs were written Before - there is no way the band could have known how we would hear them After. But the songs ring true.

isaac knows how stupid i find these things, and he finds them just as stupid as i do. like lol. now, if there's anything stupider than buddy lists, it's lol. if anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. i mean, it's not like anyone's laughing out loud about the things they lol. i think it should be spelled loll, like what a lobotomized person's tongue does. loll. loll. i can't think any more. loll. loll!

It's never the same city. Your city isn't even the same as my city, I bet.

She loves the way Vic looks, using the world debonair instead of dapper.

The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside.

But does he see everything, or only what he wants to be seeing? This is always one of the great questions of love.

It is real in such an intense way that it feels unreal, too.

I am like the people in the Winslow Homer paintings, sharing the same room with them but not really there. I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that's not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.

She is the weakness you think of as strength while I am the strength you have no idea is there.

Picture me however you want to picture me. Because odds are that'll be more true than any of the bodies you see me in.

Infinity is against us, I told him. There's no way for us ever to count it or control it or understand it.

There were days I felt like a girl and days I felt like a boy, and those days wouldn't always correspond with the body I was in. I still believed everyone when they said I had to be one or the other. Nobody was telling me a different story, and I was too young to think for myself. I had yet to learn that when it came to gender, I was both and neither.

and at first i didn't really know jed was although i was sure he knew that i was but gradually we both knew and we knew.

When everybody knows you, it is easy to think that nobody will ever really know you.

That's what social media is: the fronts of the postcards, rarely what's written on the backs.

Falling in love with someone doesn't mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

We go for what feels like hours and also feels like no time at all.

We pencil sketch our past lives so we can compare it to the Technicolor of the moment.

I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing.

The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speakers hears some of the sound from the inside.

The only birdcall I know is the Road Runner's BEEP BEEP.)

Terwijl Vics ouders het niet konden laten hem te zien zoals hij vroeger was, en veel vrienden en ook vreemden iemand zagen die hij niet meer wilde zijn, zag Dawn alleen hem. Misschien was het beeld wazig, maar Dawn zag alles heel helder. Zij zag duidelijk en ondubbelzinnig een persoon.

Het is al te gemakkelijk om te zeggen dat ik me onzichtbaar voel. Dat is ook niet waar. Ik voel me pijnlijk zichtbaar en totaal genegeerd.

We know: An almost certain way to die is to believe you are already dead.