Quotes About Interpretation

he had his hand on your -" He put his hand at waist level behind me, without touching me. "He had his hand on my ass?" "No," they said. "Behind your back," Rashad said. "Like you're dating or something." He put his hand behind Skip's back. Skip hit him.

I don't blame you for being confused and thinking, 'Gosh, I called Hayden a fire-crotch and she's mad ? What's up with that?

If we human beings are information processing machines, reading X's & O's and translating that information into what people oh so breathlessly call "experience", & if I had not only the information but the artistry to shape that information using the computer inside my brain, then, technically speaking, was I not having all the same experiences those other people were having?

We work in the realm of the impression." Nell hailed a taxi and directed the driver to East

And Danny got it: she was playing herself. A character: He liked these types because they pretty much told you what reactions they wanted you to have, and they liked Danny because he went ahead and had them.

The old pictures were no help; like all good pictures, they hid the truth.

She loved to read and did so quite uncritically, taking each book as a prescription of sorts, an argument for a certain kind of life.

There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.

All lies are just truths served more palatably.

a memoir is meant to be an impression of life, and not a photograph.

The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.

To express your sense of place in the world is, it would seem, an endless act of translation. A self-portrait is not always a depiction of a body.

Why do I have to tell a story?" I asked. "Because if you don't tell the story, someone else will tell it for you.

if yes is no, and once is never then how many sides does a triangle have?

he answer to your first riddle," I told him. "If yes is no and once is never, then the number of sides a triangle has… is… two." I drew out my reply, not bothering to explain how I'd arrived at my answer

The sales attendant's tone was so carefully nonjudgmental that I was almost certain she was judging me.

No one sees the world like you do, Emma. Creating art is about sharing your own personal vision with the world. Taking something no one else can see and bringing it to life.

May 13 Deduction. Reduction. Redaction. How much has been redacted from the carefully curated version of our story?

There's nothing in that water except what we bring in with us.

But what truth would that be? There were so many to choose from.

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

Maybe even the smallest places mean something.

I've learned the hard way that the best thing to do is say nothing about what you're really thinking. If you say nothing, they'll assume you're thinking nothing, only what you let them see.

Believe it or not, it's actually beautiful to some people.