More quotations tagged with “perception”
Sweet is made sweeter after we eat something bitter.
—Tarryn Fisher in F*ck Love
Expressions like "the good ole days" implied that life used to be of a higher quality than it is now, but I think everything looks better in retrospect.
—Penelope Douglas in Rival
Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.
—Terry Pratchett
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
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