Quotes About Awareness

The only thing I knew for certain was that all around me was more life than I'd ever experienced in all the years I'd been on earth and as long as no one shut me in the barn away from Edmond at night I was safe.

because we were all catching on to the fact that some questions were better not asked. Piper

I never exactly made a decision about what come next. It come over me slowly, ticking quietly at the back of my consciousness for the longest time before I even noticed it was there. But I was halfway to the decision already, living in a hut, becoming what I loved. You would think there`d be a rule to go with that thought, but I had to run way from rules.

Miro una imagen y veo las cosas que no están a la vista en ese momento. No es que sea una especie de mística, simplemente veo una constelación de hechos minúsculos que son demasiado pequeños para que la gente se fije en ellos. No detecto cada elemento en concreto de la constelación, pero la impresión general está clara. El Oso. El Cazador. El Cisne.

You don't always get a chance to choose the kind of news you get.

Swimming naked in broad daylight is a good incentive not to linger.

he knew the answers to questions you hadn't even got around to asking yet.

Dennis was present, still present, and this, she thought as she stayed landed against him, was no small talent.

When you looked closely at anything, you could almost faint, Jules thought, although you had to look closely if you wanted to have any knowledge at all in life.

Standing in the heat and noise, facing the rows of bent heads, Ethan Figman willed himself to leave that long sleep in which you dream that the inhuman things that people do to one another on a distant continent have nothing to do with the likes of you.

But maybe in life, she thought later, there are not only moments of strangeness but moments of knowledge, which don't appear at the time as knowledge at all

It wasn't that Faith had become political in some sort of moment of epiphany; it was more that the world had moved and she had moved too.

There were moments when you idly glanced into the toilet or into a tissue after you'd used it, and suddenly remembered that this, this was what you carried around inside you all the time. This was what was always waiting to be let out.

Now she felt as if she were dully humming with an unpleasant, low-grade drunkenness.

mostly they had to take pleasure in the moments that no one else would ever witness.

It was like some kind of full-mind, full-body fuck. That was what it was like when your entire self was engaged. That was what it was like to pay attention.

You had to train your mind to remember: human being lying here at my feet, not someone to feel contempt toward.

ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY, the women were waking up.

I can't bear the idea of looking deeply. Because you inevitably turn up horrible things.

I don't know,' Greer said to Zee, aware of a kind of familiar vagueness sweeping around her. She sometimes said, 'I don't know,' even when she did know. What she meant was that it was more comfortable to stay in vagueness than to leave it.

She had learned to read before kindergarten, when she'd first suspected that her parents weren't all that interested in her.

When you have nothing inside you, you feel everything more, and feel you can control it all.

I know what that's like," he says. "The way you can be saved without ever knowing you were in trouble.

In this life," she said, crossing these glorious gams, shimmering in the filmy light, "you can't let your guard down. If you can control yourself, you can control everyone else.