Quotes about Awareness

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

How were we to know we were happy?

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.

Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor, like a beautiful-sunset greeting cards they used to make so many of in California. High-gloss hearts. The danger is grayout.

Not real can tell us about real.

Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

She talks with wolves, without knowing what sort of beasts they are: Where have you been all my life? they ask. Where have I been all my life? she replies.

Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.

Last night I felt the approach of nothing. Not too close but on its way, like a wingbeat, like the cooling of the wind, the slight initial tug of an undertow.

I would like to be found. I would like to see. Or to be seen. I wonder if, in the eye of God, it amounts to the same thing.