#ene

Maybe from as early as when you're five or six, there's been a whisper going at the back of your head, saying: “One day, maybe not so long from now, you'll get to know how it feels.” So you're waiting, even if you don't quite know it, waiting for the moment when you realise that you really are different to them; that there are people out there, like Madame, who don't hate you or wish you any harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you – of how you were brought into this world and why – and who dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs. The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it's a cold moment. It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#perception #rejection #self-awareness #life

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. ↗

— Upton Sinclair

#evolution #ideology #obtuseness #understanding #ideology

I am. I'm here. I'm me. You are the mystery.  ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#mystery #richelle #richelle-goodrich #self-awareness #you

You are correct in saying that desires often come from things we cannot easily gain - mine, being that of your love. By all accounts, I do wish I could steal it. But I am not that sort of man. I will wait. Forever and a day...I will wait. ↗

— Renee Vincent

#raeliksen #renee-vincent #romance #ræliksen #historical

Be present in all things and thankful for all things. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#live-in-the-moment #present

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#fashion #generation #fashion

I'm sure they didn't notice anything but you. You should wear flames more often," he says. "They suit you. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#fashion #fashion

Tessa distinguished absolutely between pain observed and pain shared. Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set. Those who watch suffering and do nothing about it, in her book, were little better than those who inflicted it. They were the bad Samaritans. ↗

— John le Carre

#journalist

Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment. ↗

— William Goldman

#consequence #identity #importance #inquisitiveness #identity