Quotes About Perception

Noise ain't truth,

Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind. Manchee

People see stories everywhere...That's what my father used to say. We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true.

We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true.

The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything.

You know, the way teenage guys talk about sex, you'd think all of us were having it all the time, nonstop.

He said enough to bring me walking, the monster said. I know injustice when I see it.

If you hear what I say and still wish yourself there, wish yourself a hero, wish yourself a hunter, then either I have failed in my telling or you are a fool.

But guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

Pero, ¿qué importa la distancia si sólo fuera un sueño? ¿Acaso un sueño no podría cruzar toda la ciudad andando?

Men and their Noise. I don't know how they do it, how they stand each other

Y si nadie te ve, se puede decir que estes ahi?

The words you say tell me you are scared of the berries, but your actions seem to suggest otherwise.

People ask for what they need in different ways. Sometimes by not even asking for it at all

Nunca mas invisible -Pero hay cosas peores que ser invisible

So the thing to remember, the thing that's most important of all that I might say in this here telling of things is that Noise ain't truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

Hay cosas peores que ser invisible", había dicho el monstruo, y tenía razón. Conor ya no era invisible. Ahora todos lo veían. Pero estaba más lejos que nunca.

Cómo puede una reina ser a la vez una bruja buena y una bruja mala? ¿Cómo puede un príncipe ser a la vez un asesino y un salvador? ¿Cómo puede un boticario tener un carácter del demonio pero ser recto en sus principios? ¿Cómo puede un párroco tener malos pensamientos y un buen corazón? ¿Cómo es posible que los hombres invisibles estén más solos cuando consiguen que todo el mundo los vea?

Then he did it a bit more. "I don't understand. Who's the good guy here?" There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere inbetween.

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world keeps changing, whether I want it to or not.

Mais qu'est-ce qu'un rêve, Conor O'Malley ? dit le monstre en se penchant pour rapprocher son visage de celui du garçon. Qui peut dire que ce n'est pas tout le reste qui est un rêve ?

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all. ... the thing to remember, the thing that's most important of all that I might say in this here telling of things is that Noise ain't truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

The answer is that it does not matter what you think,' the monster said, 'because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times a day...Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

Los humanos son animales complicados [...]. ¿Cómo puede una reina ser a la vez una bruja buena y una bruja mala? ¿Cómo puede un príncipe ser a la vez un asesino y un salvador? ¿Cómo puede un boticario tener un carácter del demonio pero ser recto en sus principios? ¿Cómo puede un párroco tener malos pensamientos y buen corazón? ¿Cómo es posible que hombres invisibles estén más solos cuando consiguen que todo el mundo los vea?