Quotes About Perception

The phrase rush to judgement is a silly one. When it comes to judgement, most of us don't have have to rush. We don't have to even leave the couch. Our judgement is easy to reach for.

Love is something you can never get inside of. You might think you're there. Sure. But then you hit the border and realize you've been outside the whole time.

I can tell there are lots of thoughts she's considering, but I have no idea what they are. Falling in love with someone doesn't mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

He smiles, and I feel better. I hate that his smile makes me feel better, because that implies I'm weak, that I need the approval of others to feel okay about myself.

having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.

There was never that big a disturbance," she tells me. "I didn't think of myself as a boy or a girl—I never have. I would just think of myself as a boy or a girl for a day. It was like a different set of clothes.

O som das palavras quando são ditas é sempre diferente do som que fazem ao serem ouvidas, porque o falante ouve parte do som do lado de dentro.

I was once in the body of a blind girl,' I tell her. 'When I was eleven. Maybe twelve. I don't know if she was my favorite, but I learned more from being her for a day than I'd learn from most people over a year. It showed me how arbitrary and individual it is, the way we experience the world. Not just that the other senses were sharper. But that we find ways to navigate the world as it is presented to us. For me, it was this huge challenge. But for her, it was just life.

The bad can be found in anything. It is so much easier to find than the good.

This is how it feels to hold a pencil in her hand. This is how it feels to fill her lungs with air. This is how it feels to press her back against the chair. This is how it feels to touch her ear. This is what the world sounds like to her. This is what she hears every day.

She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is. I

Siente lo que ya sabemos: lo sobrenatural es natural y lo maravilloso puede provenir del movimiento más mundano, como de un latido o una mirada.

once time is lit, it twill burn whether or not you're breathing it in. even after smoke becomes air there is the memory of smoke

And what is a girl without curves if not, well, a boy?

If you live with someone all your life, you can tell when you are annoying them. Their face just shuts down. Their words sound almost mechanical, because they are reining in all the other emotions.

try not to listen to it, but when someone tells you those things enough, you can't help it. Because if they speak loud enough and often enough, that's the only voice you're able to hear.

If happiness feels real, it almost doesn't matter if it's real or not.

I guess Poole doesn't like social media. Which is weird, since so many modern megalomaniacs do.

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

Fiecare persoana este o posibilitate. Sentimentalii incurabili simt cel mai acut asta, dar chiar si pentru altii, singurul mod de a nu se da batauti este sa vada fiecare persoana ca pe-o posibilitate.

It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.

People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them

It's hard to remember someone when you don't know what they look like. Because A changes from day to day, it's impossible to choose a memory and have it mean more than that single day. No matter how I picture A, it's not going to be what A looks like now. I remember A as a boy and as a girl, as tall and short, skin and hair all different colors. A blur. But the blur takes the shape of how A made me feel, and that may be the most accurate shape of all.

jed is not a smoker but he's smoked. i am not a smoker and i have never smoked