Quotes About Perception

At my first coming into the world I had been (implicitly) warned never to trust a [Catholic], and at my first coming into the English Faculty (explicitly) never to trust a philologist. Tolkien was both." Within

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

Doors are very powerful things. Things are different on either side of them.

I've often noticed Fiona said, that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.

In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.

All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another-

Everyone always has to have the rational, scientific explanation for something, even if it's so obviously wrong you could scream.

When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere.

As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.

People are wrong when they say things like, "I didn't have time to think." If you're really worried, or really miserable, those feelings come welling up around the edges of the other things you're doing, so that you are in the feelings even when you're working hard at something else.

Mr. Lynn gave her one of his considering looks. People are strange, he said. Usually they're much stranger than you think. Start from there and you'll never be unpleasantly surprised. Do you fancy doughnuts?

Sophie's experience told her that tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

If you were able to hear lime juice, it would sound like violins.

Or had Howl slithered out so hard that he had come out right behind himself and turned out what most people would call honest?

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.

Sophie knew Howl could sound unhappy in heaven if it suited him.

People Sophie had known all her life came and bought flowers by the bundle. None of them recognized her, and that made her feel very odd.

Aidan was fascinated by Mr. Stock's hat. Perhaps it had once been a trilby sort of thing. It may once hace even been a definite color. Now it was more like something that had grown - like a fungus - on Mr. Stock's head, so mashed and used and rammed down by earthy hands that you could have thought it was a mushroom that had accidentally grown into a sort of gnome-hat. It had a slightly domed top and a floppy edge. And a definite smell

My mother brought me up to be respectable," she said. "She never let me near the scullery, or the kitchen either." "I don't believe this!" Peter said. "Why is it respectable not to know how to do things? Is it respectable to light a fire with a bar of soap?

Everybody at a university was to her a professor, unless they were students of course, and therefore even worse.

People kept coming up to her all day, saying, "Is it true what Nina says—you come from a broken home?" "Broken right in half," Polly replied to each one. "There's a hole in the middle where the garden is. You get rained on trying togo upstairs." (p. 154)