Quotes About Perception

Others said it was more like five thousand. Eyewitnesses

Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.

I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,...but that doesn't mean I don't know how people say good night. And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

Someone Hot is sometimes can't be the person they appear to be- except for their hotness... that cannot be denied.

Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.

A shiver climbed Caitlin's arms. She hated having a doorway behind her. Even though the team had cleared the hall, a door always felt like a hungry mouth at her back. And the window opened to darkness. To anyone outside, she and Marston were brightly lit targets.

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

I was pretty far gone, but not so far gone that I thought anyone with half a toehold in reality would think what we were doing was a good idea.

This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.

If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion. What really happened will cease to matter and, eventually, cease to exist.

Trying to think inside Finn's head was like committing what our English master called Pathetic Fallacy, the attribution of human emotions to boulders or trees.

Julie helped him to feel defined. He was Julie's boyfriend. Julie's fiance. Julie's provocation. He came into focus when he stood beside her, despite the fact that the person standing beside her was mostly not him.

because we were all catching on to the fact that some questions were better not asked. Piper

A veces veo cosas que no puedo entender. Como personas que sonríen cogidas de la mano cuando en realidad se odian. Es algo que me desconcierta, y Gil dice que es porque sin duda es desconcertante. Es lo mismo que ser traductor. Hay cosas que no se pueden traducir porque las palabras no existen en el otro idioma, o el significado es tan específico de un lugar o un modo de hablar que desaparece en la traducción. Pero a veces hay pistas.

Gabriel is just a baby but eventually he will see the world and his father as they are: imperfect, dangerous, peppered with betrayals and also with love.

Miro una imagen y veo las cosas que no están a la vista en ese momento. No es que sea una especie de mística, simplemente veo una constelación de hechos minúsculos que son demasiado pequeños para que la gente se fije en ellos. No detecto cada elemento en concreto de la constelación, pero la impresión general está clara. El Oso. El Cazador. El Cisne.

Gil me ha dicho que para traducir bien tienes que ser un camaleón, ponerte en la piel de otra persona, meterte en tu cabeza. He visto esa transformación en él; da la sensación de que sus rasgos, y a veces su personalidad, cambian con cada voz que adopta, con cada libro.

Everyone talks about falling in love like it's the most miraculous, life-changing thing in the world. Something happens, they say, and you know. You look into the eyes of your beloved and see not only the person you'd always dreamed you'd meet, but the you you've always secretly believed in, the you that inspires longing and delight, the you no one else really noticed before.

Looking at him was like staring at a prism; you saw something different from every angle. The one definite was that you couldn't stop looking at him.

Dear, dear," Ivan said, eyebrow raised. "So this is what Kansas looks like.

and I thought Vivid? that's a pretty strange word to choose

he knew the answers to questions you hadn't even got around to asking yet.

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

Maybe that was what it was like to be a writer: Even with the eyes closed, you could see.