Quotes About Awareness

No amount of takeout Chinese food or politeness ought to make me forget exactly who and what I am dealing with.

because no matter how I denied it, some part of me knew what would choose." -Jude Duarte

Apparently you can do lots of things very skilfully while asleep, Mr. Sharpe, but attending my class does not seem to be one of them.

Knowledge and action are one and the same.

She waited. Sometimes silence kept people talking. Sometimes if they talked enough, they wouldn't notice when you didn't.

He thinks of Elienad, lying beneath tables, listening to the inflections of lies. Watching the hesitations, the gestures, the tensed muscles. Learning a language the king was unaware he even spoke.

Some things exist whether you believe in them or not

If someone were hitting Aaron over the head, he would thank them for stopping.

When you're in danger , everything becomes clear,doesn't it? Everything else falls away. Danger is a terrible addiction, but that's what I like - the clarity of thought that it provides. How about you?

Do you seek out peril? One would think that years of being a mortal would have made you more aware of mortality.

On my way out, I spot my little brother. He is out in the garden, picking a bouquet of foxgloves. He's laughing, sunlight turning his brown hair gold. When his nurse comes toward him, he darts away from her. I bet he doesn't even know that those flowers are poison.

When a man tells you he's going to hurt you, believe it. They always warn you and they're always right.

I can feel myself start to tremble

He didn't dare think about the past, and he wouldn't let himself think about the future.

Listen," I say, my gaze going to the road, watching for headlights. "I don't know how long I have, but if Bogdana knows where you are, it's not safe. Fill your pockets with salt. Rowan berries will keep you from being glamoured by their magic. They hate cold-wrought iron. And they can't lie." I correct myself. "We. We can't lie.

And you." "I knew little else, but I always knew you.

I knew what he was, I try to tell myself. I saw the blood crusted on his red cap. If I let myself forget, then more fool me

I am well-practiced at being unnoticed, especially here of all places.

I am not yet in pain. But I do not doubt that I will be.

I feel his gaze on my back, pricking the hairs on my neck. It is all I can do not to run.

That's what comes of hungering for something. You forget to check if it's rotten before you gobble it down.

Right then, I feel as though he sees everything—every hope of my heart, every stray thought I've had before falling into an exhausted sleep each dawn.

I have stood apart from the world for so long. That has made it hard for me to navigate being in it, but it has also made me an excellent observer.

They do not need to deceive humans. Humans will deceive themselves.