Quotes About Perception

Appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, most relationships do not end suddenly. This is true of friends, romantic partners, and business associates alike. When someone claims to be blindsided, it's usually because they had their eyes closed.

You know," said Grover, "the only thing worse than a smart-assed lawyer is a dumb-assed lawyer.

Aside from the fact that she's a horrible human being, she's actually very nice." Rebecca

Thank you, but I take no joy in my wedding." "Of course you don't, but still, you must act the part. I often take no joy in my spinsterhood; I have no babes to fill my arms, and yet by acting the part of it, I convince myself that I am not lonely. And sometimes it works.

But when I looked into my aunt's eyes, I saw oceans and deserts. I saw a world not yet created, and worlds that had died long before I was born.

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there are no gray-haired women at all.

All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.

And what people see the most is his silence, because some kinds of silence is actually visible.

It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented.

You can not know any better and still know you don't like something" -Ruby

But just because you can't see something doesn't mean it's not there. And just because you don't remember something doesn't mean you don't miss it. And just because you are used to something doesn't mean it's normal" -Ruby

These were such friendly people, they didn't notice how crabby we were, and before you knew it everyone was as happy as they were.

Some people, like teachers and librarians and other adults, like to say that names are not important. Like sticks and stones. But they are wrong. Every word you choose means something you think it means, and more.

Old elbows," she told me. "A woman's elbows always give her age away.

Because there is a need to hear one story and to tell another.

He says, "But, hey, wouldn't it be weird-if Bennu wakes up from the operation, and he's all tall and stuff, and then he doesn't recognize himself in the mirror?

but I think when you are trying so hard to hide your own truth, it's hard to see anyone else's." -Ruby

All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell. Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

Think of what's scary in a movie… The unseen, the imagined, is always more frightening than what's graphically portrayed.The same holds true in your head. Face your fear, step into it, look at it head-on and it will diminish in stature, lose its hold on your imagination. But run, and it'll grow wings, breather fire, and fly after you.

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

Simple people always reduce everything to their own simple measure.