Quotes About Perception

There were as many truths - overlapping, stewed together - as there were tellers. The truth mattered less than the story's life. A story forgotten died. A story remembered not only lived, but grew.

The thing is, Todd, people don't really want freedom, no matter how much they might bleat on about it.

They're just stupid berries. Woo-hoo, so scary . Oh, please, please, save me from the berries!

Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you've got to do is find a way to live there.

But I will say also on yer first day that the attractiveness of power is something you should learn about before you get too much older, it's the thing that separates men from boys, tho not in the way most men think.

Miss Kwan said, putting her voice into its "kindly" mode, which was only slightly less scary than full-on shouting.

C'era una volta un uomo invisibile, che s'era stufato di non essere visto da nessuno. Non che fosse davvero invisibile. Il fatto era che la gente era abituato a non vederlo. E se nessuno ti vede, esisti davvero?

The Third Tale There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was actually invisible. It was that people had become used to not seeing him. And if no one sees you, are you really there at all? And then one day the invisible man decided, I will make them see me. He called for a monster.

Harry leaned forward, his eyes flashing. "I see nothing.

But then she thinks, feels, reaches out, and knowing exactly what blame is - a human construct, one of its blackest and more selfish and self-blinding - she can find further strands of it, emanating in all directions, for blame is something that is shared but denied in equal measure.

A peace that blacked yer eye,' I say. 'A peace that split yer lip.' He looks at me for another second and then gives a sad snort. "The words of a sage," he says, "in the voice of a hick.

And that, the monster said, is not the truth at all.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between. Conor shook his head. "That's a terrible story. And a cheat." It is a true story , the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers' daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.

There is always beauty. If you know where to look.

Cómo es posible que los hombres invisibles estén más solos cuando consiguen que todo el mundo los vea?

It does not matter what you think, the monster said, because you mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day.

it was like all those things became true, just for an instant the world changed, just for a second it became made of Viola's voice and it wasn't describing a thing, it was making a thing, it was making us different just by saying it.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere inbetween. Conor shook his head. "That's a terrible story. And a cheat." It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

Sometimes the rumour of an army is just as effective as the army itself.

Quién dice que no es todo lo demás lo que es un sueño?

I can't tell you what's real for you. But in return, you can't say what's real for me either. I get to choose. Not you.

But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?

Say you were standing on a hilltop with someone who had no Noise. Would it be like you were alone there? How would you share it? Would you want to? I mean, here we are, the girl and I, heading outta danger and into the unknown and there's no Noise overlapping us, nothing to tell us what the other's thinking. Is that how it's sposed to be?

You are what you remember. You are what you hold on to.