Quotes About Perception

Those eyes, hidden deep in that hooded cloak, could penetrate subterfuge and dissimulation as easily as X-rays penetrated flesh and illuminated the bones for all to see.

Stop it. I'm sure she looks more like herself than she looks like me." "No, no. You must come see now. She buys my pupusas!" "Your what?" "My pupusas!" "Katerina—" "Jean?

we're the only species that looks into its mate's eyes during intercourse? It developed our concept of the other

The way Mr. Ronan had acted seemed to be of a piece with this woman's behaviour. I felt a need to see where she was leading. It was none of her business, so I lied.

Truth is a matter of semantics, whether we like it or not.

Everyone thinks I'm so strong. They expect me to face autumns and winters like that and bitch-slap them down; make them come to heel. I'm not so strong. I only pretend.

We are often criminals in the eyes of the earth, not only for having committed crimes, but because we know what crimes have been committed. - The Man in the Iron Mask (155)

Smart means you know lots of shit. Clever means you can pretend you know it.

Do you know that if you close your eyes really tightly, so you can see stars, when you open them again it's a brand new world.

To misquote Mark Twain: It isn't what we don't know that gets us into trouble. It's what we know for sure that just isn't so.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde

nothing is black and white except for mathematics and pandas.

It's strange, talking about love. I used to hate the word. Hate is too strong. I was sick of reading about it in books, hearing it in songs, watching it in films. It seemed such a huge burden to place on another person - to love them; to give them something so unbelievably fragile and expect them not to break it or lose it or leave it behind on the No.96 bus.

I once had a patient who was convinced that his head was full of sea water and a crab lived inside. When I asked him what happened to his brain he told me that aliens had sucked it out with a drinking straw. "It is better this way," he insisted. "Now there's more room for the crab.

Why is it that men have pride but women have shame?

Haven't you heard – fat isn't the killer any more. Now I can eat more pork than Kermit.

Audie could stare into the distance like he was looking across an ocean, or watching sparks floating above a campfire. He could make a cell seem like it had no walls.

Like pigeons.' 'What's so mysterious about pigeons?' 'They're always the same size. You never see baby pigeons or old-age pigeons.

Why do people always talk about how fast a car can get from naught to sixty? I mean, what's the big deal about sixty miles an hour? It's like people think aliens are going to land and only be able to do fifty-nine. They'll suck out our brains unless we can do naught to sixty in less than ten seconds.

I've heard it said that you can discover how you feel about someone when you watch them sleeping. You see things you don't look for at other times. The elegance of an open mouth, the absence of anxiety, the vulnerability of each breath, a small vein pulsing beneath her pale skin.

she could move Audie, who felt as though he was staring into the depths of a well. All he had to do was fall.

Most of the guys were drunk, checking out the teenage girls in their crotch-defying dresses and fuck-me heels. I feel sorry for hookers these days - how do they stand out any more?

Giggling like schoolgirls we dry our hair. Meg looks like Andie McDowell in Four Weddings and a Funeral . I look like Janet Leigh in Psycho before the knife starts shredding the shower curtain.

Fairness is a hair colour not something to be balanced on a set of scales.