This is what a total breakdown must be. You find yourself standing somewhere you shouldn't be, doing something so out of character that you wonder if you've become someone else entirely.
—Gilly Macmillan in Burnt Paper Sky
More quotations tagged with “perception”
A week feels like a year when you're seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched melodiously under our feet as we danced onward through the night.
—Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so
—Marcel Proust
Having this, and losing it, made it even sweeter the second time around.
—R.K. Lilley in Lovely Trigger
Time passes too quickly when you're getting ready to do something you don't want to do.
—Courtney Summers in Some Girls Are
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
—Senator Everett Dirksen
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