Quotes About Perception

If you think I'm handsome, there's obviously nothing wrong with your vision.

The look he was going for was Friendly Suburban Dad, because that's what he was, but he suspected he'd achieved only Cialis Guy.

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

When it came to maintaining a reputation, facts were fleeting but you could ride a rumor for years.

Ian stepped out to where he knew I could clearly see and identify his tall, dark, and dangerous self.

Some people wouldn't recognize the truth if it bit 'em and had 'em for breakfast.

I'm Raine Benares, seeker and…" I looked up at Vegard. "What else are people calling me now?" The big Guardian chuckled and shook his head. "A lot of things, ma'am. Some you've heard, most you haven't, but I'm sure you could guess.

I couldn't wait to see Phaelan. I'd know instantly if she'd dropped anchor on his ego. *

it was futile to whisper because Yasha could hear a tick burp at fifty yards.

He knew what he did because all Venetians knew it.

I was touched by the millennial madness.

She glanced left and right, all wide-eyed and innocent. Innocent as a streetwalker.

Only one sort of man is worse than an Italian when it comes to their appetite for women." "Oh? And what is that?" "A Frenchmen.

OBJECTS IN DREAMS MAY BE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.

Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel on the fringes, in the margins of life. And that's where we belong. What you are a part of, you cannot observe.

I think justice is blind so that she needn't see how massively ineffectual she is.

Happiness is not in getting what you want, but in learning to want what you get. Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.

I always assume people's behaviors are a reaction to something I've done, not that they're just doing their thing.

My mama used to say if you frown on the outside long enough, eventually you'll grow a frown on the inside, too.

Who are you, really? The question penetrated, echoed, demanded an answer. It nipped at me in ways I wasn't prepared for, pinched in places I didn't like. Was I really so entrenched in the world I'd been raised in, so set in my ways that I couldn't look beyond the surface of another person and see a human being? Was I that shallow?