Quotes about Perception

That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness.

See a charmer and you're bound to see a snake nearby

It was easy to lie to people who still believed in the truth.

Goodness, in their opinion, was not a virtue but merely spinelessness and fear disguised as humility.

Love wasn't rational; there was no proof that it even existed outside of people's imaginings.

The children knew that which you cannot see can be more dangerous than that which is before you.

There are those who say that heaven and hell are not so far apart. They are not at opposite ends of the world beyond ours, only a step away from one another.

The air was soft, as it often was in this lovely month, and Eddie inhaled its sweetness. He found himself uplifted as he worked, caught up in something outside himself and his petty wants and needs. The clouds drifted like ice in a tumbler. Through his lens the river seemed made of light, there was the shimmer, and for a moment the world seemed whole to him.

She judged people smartly and quickly, and often found herself in a huff.

People all over town had listened for my grandfather's cries, but there were none. Only silence.

A familiar is such a creature, an animal or bird that sees inside to the very soul of its human companion, and knows what others might not. What fears there might be, and what joys, for it shares the emotions of its human partner.

Many of them began to wonder why they themselves often feigned opinions rather than speak their minds, no matter how clever they were, for fear they'd be thought of as difficult.