Quotes About Perception

Art isn't what you see. It's what you remember.

You couldn't argue the facts; you could only change the lens through which you looked at them.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it really fall? If a character sits in a book and no one reads it, is he truly alive? As

The brain can do a lot of things, Olive said, but it can't distinguish between what's really happening and what you're imagining. That's why scary movies scare you and why you cry at Nicholas Sparks books.

How are you going to know who I am, she finally said, if I dont look like me?

I honestly can't tell if [she's] being intentionally mean or is she's truly that stupid.

what's morally right is considered wrong...and what's morally wrong, you can get away with.

Nobody's all good or all bad. They just get painted that way.

People are never who you think they are, that it was necessary to get a complete background check on a person before you made any promises.

I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive—the sum of the parts equals more than the whole.

The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.

BEING A MOTHER GIVES YOU a singular sort of vision, a prism through which you can see your child with many different faces all at once. It is the reason you can watch him shatter a ceramic lamp, and still remember him as an angel. Or hold him as he cries, but imagine his smile. Or watch him walk toward you, the size of a man, and see the dimpled skin of an infant.

Hunger, she often tells me, has nothing to do with the belly and everything to do with the mind.

Sometimes all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.

You might live on top of the biggest toxic waste dump on the planet, but if you never dig, then all you ever know is that your grass is green and your garden is lush.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —SØREN KIERKEGAARD

The strange thing; her face, after she hit me. She was in greater pain than I. You could see it in her eyes - like she had been violated in some way that broke her own image.

Sometimes we see what we want to, instead of what's in front of us. And sometimes, we don't see clearly at all.

I love the way he smelled whenever his head dipped close to hear what I was saying—like the sun striking th cheek of a tomato, or soap drying in the hood of a car. I loved the way his hand felt on my spine. I loved.

Let me guess, Seven said last night. The first was a rebound. The second was married. How'd you know? He laughed. Because you're a cliché.

Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

In life, perfect pitch is the ability to know someone from the inside out, even better maybe than she knows herself.

This judge has a chip on her shoulder the size of the whole goddamned courthouse.