Quotes About Awareness

once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything.

Of course, a wandering mind is not always advisable for the recently deceased and is nearly never advisable for the beginning driver.

She feels very sorry for her mother because people who don't wake up can't go downstairs to the bookstore in the morning.

The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything. No

The wallpaper has a bumpy, swirling pattern, and it is pleasing to rub her face against it. She will read the word damask in a book one day and think, Yes, of course that's what it's called. In contrast, the word wainscoting will come as a huge disappointment.

El cuerpo no sintió dolor pero solo porque el cuerpo no estaba.

Está pensando en su cerebro. Le parece extraño que, aunque no funcione bien, su cerebro vaya a servirle para entender por qué no funciona.

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time." "Not

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.

Do you know where she lives?" "Could get there blindfolded." "Did he just blush?" Tolbert asked Marc as Lucien strode over to his black stallion and swung up into the saddle. "I heard that," he retorted.

Grief is what tells you who you are alone.

This was a hard-won but brilliant education: I had realized, as life is always willing to instruct, that the world as we see it is only the published version. The subterranean realms, whether churches or hospital rooms or smoke-filled basements, are part of what holds up the rest. The realized life versus the external picture of it: the assumption and projections that we all make about other people's lives.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. —GEORGE ELIOT, Scenes of Clerical Life

Walking, reading, watching the light change.

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.

The walk north was exactly the right distance to make me walk out of myself....If you walked out of yourself going north, what did you do on the return walk? Enjoyed my emptiness. Or sometimes just congratulated myself for escaping.

Yes, if you believed in words, if you lived by words, you had better be careful which words you say and how you say them. You had better be careful what you look up, which words, which names. Jane Clifford, in The Odd Woman

Ignorant of our own and our mate's inner life, we are ruled largely by external forces at this stage.

we can't hide from it, we are all touched by the madness of it.

He showed me that life is not just from within, it extends all around you, wether you wish it to or not. And so, this garden became a part of my life. The Samari's Garden

life is not just from within, it extends all around you, whether you wish it to or not.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness

Ramsay Bolton: If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.