Quotes About Perception

Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy.

a person can't un-know the truth.

We are what we are, Nial, neither as good or as evil as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.

How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything." "I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.

Mortals don't see the fey. Donia smiled wryly: if they did, Keenan would never have convinced any of them to trust him.

I see humanity's flaws, but I see the goodness too.

Creative vision creates art"—he motioned around the gallery—"that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's a beautiful thing.

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

Women want their husbands to have the whole package. That means looking beyond the surface. Let's face it. His personality needs a complete overhaul. The guy's not only arrogant and obnoxious, but he's also—" "Right here," a familiar royal voice said

Do I look like someone who would make a duck face or do a fish gape?

I'm going to be fit and slim and beautiful. I'm going on a diet as of today." "Why? You've always said that looks don't matter and women only diet for men and life is obsessed with the superificial." "Yes, I know, but then I thought, hey wouldn't it be fun to be sexy?

Why did tears make people treat you like a five-year-old when usually they meant something grown-up was going on inside?

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.

I'm beginning to think that you aren't with child. You've simply become fat after reading too many recipes.

Your thoughts are just a diary of your life, you are not your thoughts but the observers of your thoughts. Observe your thoughts and choose your readings carefully »

Beliefs create reality

Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.

While Owen and Miles talk sports, I people watch. And this is what I see: teenagers trying to act like adults. Or how they think adults act. But mostly they look ridiculous, and I wonder what they don't want to do something that's more fun than drinking, smoking, flirting, and making out. Why are those activities considered to be fun?

I do not understand what makes mothers think they are walking-talking thermometers.But I think somewhere during the process of giving birth and changing diapers, they actually begin to belive they have this supernatural sense.

I mean all this focus on how we look on the outside. It's just all wrong

How can this be? How could we have been just sitting there, happily eating our lunch, and then Jess announces that she's gay? Like who does that anyway? And how is it possible that I never even saw this coming? I mean if you best friend has no clue that you're gay, then who does?

Anyway, Phillip isn't like that. From what I can see, Phillip has good judgement and he genuinely cares about me. And those might be rare qualities in seventeen-year-old boys these days. Not that I'm an expert. Although I am getting better at it.

Žmog? kei?ia poži?ris – iškelk j? ir jis skraidys tartum paukštis, sutrypk – ir jis jausis tarytum vikšras

We are, each one of us, all talking advertisements for our history. Accent is the snake and the ladder in the upstairs downstairs of social ambition. Accent is the con man's first resource.