Quotes About Interpretation

You exist in the midst of many other systems of reality, for example, but you do not perceive them. And even when some event intrudes from these systems into your own three-dimensional existence, you are not able to interpret it, for it is distorted by the very fact of entry.

She was learning to treat laws as most people treat poems, making them mean whatever she wanted them to without reference to the author's intention or achievement.

She was learning to treat laws as most people treat poems, making them mean whatever she wanted them to without reference to the author's intention or achievement.

Don't you want to know what happened?" Carol turned to look at her and put her hands on her hips. She said, "No, I don't, because I don't want you making a story out of it, because as soon as you make a story out of it, then it keeps happening every time you tell it, and if you make a good story out of it, then you're gonna want to tell it, so don't bother.

eidetic memory. What else any of it meant to

We knew right off how to think of them but not precisely how to feel about them.

Reality is just a collective hunch.

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

You may adore Love You Forever, but I hear it as a story about an overbearing and smothering mother who infantilizes her son and can only tell him she loves him when he is fast asleep. I also contend that she drugs his cocoa. And that when the man's baby daughter wakes up sixteen years later and finds him fondling her in her room, she will be calling 911 and going into therapy.

After a while, the story becomes the truth because no one actually remembers how things really happened.

Fairy tales always have a happy ending. He leaned back in his chair. "That depends." "On what?" "On whether you are Rumplestiltskin or the Queen.

I tell the truth,' she said. 'But I tell it slant.

Morelli grabbed the front of my shirt, pulled me to him, and kissed me. It was a great kiss, but I didn't know what the heck it meant. It seemed to me a breaking up kiss would have had less tongue.

Dancing hotdogs don't say shit.

It means that he looks like my boyfriend, but I don't say it out loud.

I don't exactly date, but I sort of have a boyfriend." "What does sort of mean?" "It means that he looks like my boyfriend, but I don't say it out loud.

I was pretty sure this time "Babe" meant I was giving him a cramp in his sphincter.

How we explain coincidences depends on how we see the world. Is everything connected or do things merely co-occur? It's all in how you think.

Stephanie Plum, master of rationalization. Believe whatever the moment calls for.

You're his what?" "Amanuensis.

Well, she wasn't strong enough to avoid being the background of my art. Just the background. Her words just my canvas.

Solo perchè un poeta dice qualcosa non significa che sia vero, ma solo che suona bene.

That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific—chair, eye, stone—but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn't include all the meanings. In defining, they always left something out.

But she understood, even lies could be true, if you knew how to listen.