Quotes About Perception

just because one is submissive doesn't make them stupid. My experience has suggested the opposite. We have a saying, 'Listen when the soft ones speak.'" Smith

There's something really disturbing about finding out how little you really know about something you felt like you were an expert on.

Mercy is a smart cookie," Coyote told him (Adam). "Except when she is not.

I like who I am - but there are plenty of men who wouldn't. (Mercy)

Body language, when you know how to read it, can be more expressive than speech. (Mercy)

Coyote," said Hopi Woman dryly, "doesn't much worry about understanding anything, which is why he understands so much.

He didn't think she was his enemy. But certainly not his friend.

Leslie absorbed that. "If that's so, I peg our Anna at sixteen and her husband at ten thousand and change.

Suddenly Chelsea's eyes met Anna's from across the table and held them. Icy gray became even more pale, and Chelsea's nostrils flared. "Who hurt you?" she asked, slicing through the two other conversations going on at the table.

Just then Warren's breathing, which part of me was listening to with rapt attention, stopped. Adam heard it too, crouching as if there were an enemy in the room. Maybe there was. Death is an enemy, right?

Some people, me, get a black eye and other people ask "who beat you up?" Other people, Spielman, get a black eye and other people say "where did they bury the other guy?

Medea yowled at me and stropped my leg, broadcasting the information that no one had fed her. Cats lie, and I was pretty sure she was lying. But feeding her made me happy and made her happy.

Second, it sometimes left me standing in the dark, listening to someone being killed while they cried out to me. For Mercy.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall," Asil murmured when Tad quit speaking. "Shh," said Tad. "This isn't that mirror. That mirror broke, and good riddance to it. Let's not give this one ideas, please.

He sees people—all the way through them—and he likes them anyway.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," she said, hurt

Jesse sucked in her breath, and said, "It's a TARDIS." "A what?" asked Aiden. "Bigger on the inside than it is on the outside," Jesse said. She

they understand what I am and do not die

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? But curiosity is very nearly my besetting sin.

If you are going to use white man's words to describe yourself, 'avatar' is more accurate than 'walker.

Interesting, thought Brother Wolf, seeing wounded prey. An easy meal.

Mostly they just confused us with skinwalkers. Since walkers and skinwalkers are both Native American shapeshifters, I can sort of understand it. Especially since I'm pretty sure the walker label came from some dumb white person who couldn't tell the difference.

Want to explain to the kid that I'm more a Spike than a Buffy? A villain, not a superhero?

you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was 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 that will get the results they want.