Quotes About Awareness

Don't I know it.

You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.

It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.

You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.

But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.

See for me, it's immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn't sure which.

Happy, normal lives going on in happy, normal ways, in a works that was anything but. Once you realize this, experienced something that made it crystal clear, you couldn't forget it. Like a face. Or a name. However you learn that truth, once it's with you, it never really goes away.

As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.

It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.

I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark.

From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

Maybe I'd just figured out there were some things you were better off not knowing

That was the nice thing about the Spot: you could hear everything, but no one could see you.

You just had to know where to look.

I realized all those times I'd felt people stare at me, their faces had been pictures, abstracts. None of them were mirrors, able to reflect back the expression I thought only I wore, the feelings only I felt. Until now, this moment, as our eyes met. If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I looked at his face. Finally, someone understood.

Happy, normal lives going on in happy, normal ways, in a world that was anything but. Once you realized this, experienced something that made it crystal clear, you couldn't forget it. Like a face. Or a name. However you first learn that truth, once it's with you, it never really goes away.

It felt like I'd taken everything for granted up until right now, when suddenly my entire world and all in it became precious and fleeting. I should have paid more attention, soaked it in more. Which you always realize once it's getting too late to do just that.

There are just moments when you look up from any one place and realize, suddenly, you have no idea how you got there.

You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

You need a third option, he said. Yeah. I guess i do. He nodded, absorbing this. Well, he said,For what it's worth, it's been my experience that they don't appear at first. You kind of have to look a little more closely. And when does that happen? He shugged. When you're ready to see them, I guess.

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn to know the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

But I'm kind of used to being invisible," I continued. "So any kind of attention makes me nervous.

Hay un momento en la vida en el que el mundo se calla y lo único que queda es tu propio corazón. Así que más vale que aprendas cómo suena. Si no, nunca entenderás lo que está diciendo.

When she finally finished a few minutes later, it was hard to tell if she was even aware that the crowds had thinned... Watching them, I thought again of how we can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.