Quotes about Perception

Maggot calmed me down by explaining Bible stories were a category of superhero comic. Not to be confused with real life.

When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.

It is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell. 

With these startling honesties glinting up at us from history's broken mirror, it strikes me that this is worth shouting from the rooftops: We could be wrong this time, again. The enemy may not be exactly what we think. It may be a force that resides in many quarters, including inside our skin, in our very words, the questions we frame, the things we love most, the things we can't live without. Our greatest dread may be our salvation.

People love to believe in danger, as long as it's you in harm's way, and them saying bless your heart.

And then while we all still waited I understood that the terror of my recurring dream was not about losing just vision, but the whole of myself, whatever that was. What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative truth but not its twin.

At sunrise it always seems like you've got a good crack at getting everything done, but at sunset you know that you didn't.

Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.

Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot.

Like the saying goes: They passed out the brains, he thought they said trains and he missed his.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.