Quotes About Awareness

You have to learn how to listen before you will hear.

I felt I should repeat it for the other slipper, in case there should be any bad feelings between the two. One should never create tension between one's footwear.

As I was smoothing on the last handful across the top of my thigh, I noticed I had company. Lewus was standing there watching me, eyes half-closed but not in the least sleepy. He'd put on his blue jeans, but nothing else... very sexy. I couldn't help but take in the view.

Sorry, is my new Djinn name Mushroom ? Because I don't like being kept in the dark and fed bullshit, David. Just so you know.

I've got a sense of self-preservation. OK, granted , it's still in the original shrink wrap but I've got one if I ever want to use it.

But the past never leaves us. It's in every breath, every cell, every second. I know that now.

Tota est scientia Knowledge is all

And knowledge is the purest form of power.

she was only eighteen." "Old enough to vote, fuck, and know better

You have to schedule your epiphanies. And be patient.

One thing you learn early growing up a girl—people always talk, whatever you do," Glain said.

Tota est scientia.

And most of all, it's such a young male thing to say, this automatic assumption of safety. Women, even girls of Lanny's age, don't think that way. Parents don't. Older people don't. It reveals a certain blind, entitled ignorance to how dangerous the world really is.

Jess understood, at a very fundamental level, that when he'd seen that book being destroyed, he'd seen a light pass out of the world.

Suddenly the enormity of it crashed down on me . . .

Do not fall for things that feel right, and sound wrong. Understand?

He also knows that a gun can't protect you unless you protect yourself mentally, emotionally, and logically. It's the punctuation at the end, not the paragraph.

And almost never young men of any race, even though they can and do go missing too.

I noticed, but I didn't pay attention.

Books cannot fight for themselves.

Violence at a distance was still horrific and should be felt just as deeply.

When you sleep, you give up the choice to control memory.

it is not half so important to know as to feel

For most of us, knowledge of our world comes largely through sight, yet we look about with such unseeing eyes that we are partially blind. One way to open your eyes to unnoticed beauty is to ask yourself, What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?