Quotes about Reflection

What well-to-do and once-young, once-beautiful woman or man, cranked up on hormonal supplements and shot full of vitamins but hampered by the unforgiving mirror, wouldn't sell their house, their gated retirement villa, their kids, and their soul to get a second kick at the sexual can?

she was beginning to emerge from the initial sex-induced coma created by him through

Hungry, and also sad. Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.

But such messages can be dangerous. Think twice before you wish, and especially before you wish to make yourself into the hand of fate. (Think twice,said Reenie. Laura said,Why only twice? )

I collected enough fragments of the past to make a reconstruction of it, which must have borne as much relation to the real thing as a mosaic portrait would to the original.

We have learned to see the world in gasps.

Though it's hard to concentrate on the idea of a future. She's too immersed in the present:

A scar is like writing on your body. It tells about something that once happened to you, such as a cut on your skin where blood came out. What

What I miss is what she'd say. What she would have said.

I believe in effort, but not in unnecessary effort: Aunt Vidala was most likely negotiating her exit from this world all on her own.

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.