Quotes about Perception

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn't help but notice which patrons checked out the same books. They appeared to have nothing in common, but who could tell what a person was truly made of? The unknown, the riddle, the deepest truth. I noticed them all: the ones who'd lost their way, the ones who'd lived their lives in ashes, the ones who had to prove themselves, the ones who, like me, had lost the ability to feel.

When you were young you were afraid of ghosts, and when you were aged you called them to you.

Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.

He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.

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.