Quotes About Perception

Every form correctly seen is beautiful.

The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield. Evil prefers it when people don't believe.

It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.

One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed)

Intelligent men are dangerous.

Stefan: "Indian with a dot, not a feather.

If you could just see your face," she told me. "You look like a cat in a bathtub.

It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.

She hit us," the woman shrieked. That was the gist of it anyway. There were a lot of unladylike words that began with "F," with various "C" words thrown in for leavening. … "Ben's better," I murmured. "He's more creative when he swears." "He does it in that English accent, which is too cool.

It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.

When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.

I like what you've done to your face," Ben said, tapping his eye.

She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn't a hallway?

If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she'd end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.

Charles sat in lone splendor on a huge couch in the middle of Angus's spacious living room--while the other ten or twelve people present made themselves at home on the other side of the room. Anna surveyed the scene. "Okay," she said. "Who's been being a grouch?

We're the good guys. That we're scary doesn't mean we're the villains.

Too much knowledge can make you paranoid all the time

Kyle blinked. I don't think I've ever seen him quite so … neutral. "You can talk to Adam when he's not in the room, and you don't have a phone?" he asked. I nodded. He closed his eyes, and I could read his expression when he opened them again. "Thank you, dear Lord," he said with relief. "I thought I was going crazy.

I think it's the eyes. No one expects brilliance out of a man with eyelashes like that.

My mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was the truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something they think will get the results they want.

My soul was a lot more battered than my body, but I couldn't see it in the mirror. Hopefully no one else could either.

Truth has many facets. Choose the ones that make her happy to be alive instead of the ones that make her want to smack you.

If fourteen people believe they were Cleopatra in a former life, does that mean that Cleopatra had split personality disorder?