625 quotes found
“I watch the sky progress through its morning paces, the light turning from rose to saffron as the sun ascends, its rays like ribbons tangling in the tops of trees.”
“Finally the dawn came, the sky fringed with pink, and the sun bright as a coin in a spill of rising red.”
“...tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation.... the window rosy with anemic November light.”
“So often I'm like, No, thanks, to all of that stuff, just give me the room to exist both in the shit and stars . . . We have to fight to be understood as being distinct and incongruent. But I think...”
“...the clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses.”
“I looked up "skin" in the encyclopedia and confirmed that, sure enough, it is the human body's largest organ, a fact that suggests our surfaces are critical to who we are, not just the gateway to p...”
“I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language.”
“Man searches constantly for identity, he thought as he trotted along the gravel path. He has no real proof of this existence except for the reaction of other people to that fact. So he listens very...”
“A person is an objective entity, which as a definite subject has the closest contacts with the whole (external) world and is most intimately involved with it precisely because of its inwardness, it...”
“Why, when we regain consciousness, is it not an identity other than the one we had previously that is embodied in us? It is not clear what dictates the choice nor why, among the millions of human b...”
“Be as thou wast wont to be.”
“Be as thou wast wont to be.See as thou wast wont to see.”
“A mask is what we wear to hide from ourselves.”
“Boy or girl? I had never thought about that. The men who work at the palace, they use words to govern the country and use strength to protect it. Bringing all kinds of brilliant men from the kingdo...”
“If I give you and apple and ask you, What is that?You reply, An apple.How do you know its an apple.Because it just is.How did it get to be an apple?It came form an apple.Exactly. So when I ask you,...”
“Felt good, though, just being what I was.”
“My name is not Mara Dyer, but my lawyer told me I had to choose something. A pseudonym. A nom de plume, for all of us studying for the SATs. I know that having a fake name is strange, but trust mei...”
“You have probably worked your entire life to create a sense of identity around your job, your family, your hobbies, or your physical characteristics. But none of these is who you really are. You ar...”
“Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry.”
“You are who you are. Deal with it.”
