Quotes About Perception

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

Once, in second grade, Kate drew a picture of a firefighter with a halo above his helmet. She told her class that I would only be allowed to go to Heaven, because if I went to Hell, I'd put out all the fires. ~Brian Fitzgerald

People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.

I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.

It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn't.

Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror? - That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

The mind is a remarcable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting

What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.

It just goes to show you: every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.

There is no one truth. There's only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?

Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real

I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand on his forehead to warn us away. Criminals sit next to us on the bus. They pack our groceries and cash our paychecks for us and teach our children. They look no different from you or me. And that's why they get away with it.