Knowingly Quotes (page 412)

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• thinking
• easiest
• you

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all. Jodi Picoult

• images
• hand
• bright

My sisters and I stand, arms around each other, laughind and wiping the tears from each others eyes. The flash of the Polaroid goes off and my family hands me the snapshot. My sisters and I watch quietly together, eager to see what develops. Ghe grey-greensurface changes to the bright colors of our three images, sharpening and deepening all at once. And although we don't speak, I know we all see it: Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in suprise to see, her... Amy Tan

• healing
• moments
• world

It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• eyes
• mistake
• path

You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake. Jodi Picoult

• dumb
• new
• fun

The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started. John Updike

• him
• mirror
• soul

And a soulif it is to know itselfmust lookinto its own soul: the stranger and enemy, we've seen him in the mirror. Giorgos Seferis

• men
• look
• fruit

We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed. Their hungry thirsty roots? Christina G. Rossetti

• dirty
• knows
• hey

Hey. I know dirty."Vinnie Janet Evanovich

• change
• time
• thinking

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then Lewis Carroll

• good
• world
• fun

Again, Homer felt the nudge in his ribs, and Mr. Rose said, mildly, ‘You all so uneducated – Homer’s havin’ a little fun with you.’ When the bottle of rum passed from man to man, Mr. Rose just passed it along. ‘Don’t the name Homer mean nothin’ to you?’ Mr. Rose asked the men. ‘I think I heard of it,’ the cook Black Pan said. ‘Homer was the world’s first storyteller!’ Mr. Rose announced. The nudge at Homer’s ribs was back, and Mr. Rose said, ‘Our Homer knows a good story, too. John Irving

• life
• dream
• imagination

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are? Henry David Thoreau

• dog
• real
• him

We used to have a dog named Snoopy, you know, a real live dog. I suppose people who love Snoopy won't like it, but we gave him away. He fought with other dogs, so we traded him in for a load of gravel. Charles M. Schulz

• luck
• bad
• bad luck

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. Cormac McCarthy

• love
• amazing
• look

It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them. Louisa May Alcott

• him
• little
• placing

In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right... Richard P. Feynman