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“Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of reality, and if that changed conception led to a change in behavior and action, a loss of ego.”

Ifs Persons Reality Action Loss Changed Ego Behavior Understood Significant Conception Mystical Mystical Experiences

Book:The Marriage Plot: A Novel

Source: The Marriage Plot: A Novel

“It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.”

Persons Enough Stories Lying Understood Deceit Soon Enough

Book:The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)

Source: The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)

“Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”

Writing Mind Persons Said Matter Happens Remember Enjoy My Own Talking Enemy Understood Insane Appeals Diaries

Book:1984

Source: 1984

“There is no end of things in the heart. ...she understood it to mean that if you took something to heart, really brought it inside those red velvet folds, then it would always be there for you. No matter what happened, it would be there waiting. She said this could mean a person, a place, a dream. A mission. Anything sacred. She told me that it is all connected in those secret folds. Always. It is all part of the same and will always be there, carrying the same beat as your heart.”

Ifs Heart Mean Persons Said Ends Matter Dream Would Be Waiting Secret Happened Beats Understood Red No Matter What Sacred Connected Missions Folds Velvet

Book:Lost Light

Source: Lost Light

“If a person cast no shadow at all, he couldn't be alive. His existence became meaningless.Execrating Apophis by destroying his shadow would cut his connection to the mortal world completely. He'd never be able to rise again. I finally understood why he'd been so anxious to burn Setne's scrolls, and he was afraid of this spell. (Carter Kane)”

Ifs World Persons Able Existence Cutting Alive Understood Shadow Connections Casts Mortals Spells Destroying Meaningless Anxious Carter Carter Kane

Author:Rick Riordan

“You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.”

Thinking Men Way Years Kind Persons Spirit Millions Taken Sky Fool Understood Mad Thrown Free Spirit Mad Person

Author:Anton Chekhov

“It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.”

Feels Persons Feelings Listening Understood Tricks Psychological

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the same book repeatedly. Now she understood those rereaders differently ... she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader-- because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see.”

Kind Persons Two Book Students Understood Library Insight New Things Rereading

Author:Rachel Simon

“And yet I understood the alienation of being around others who couldn't really see you or chose not to. I'd felt the self-loathing that came with being a fraud, protraying an image of what you wished you could be but weren't. I'd lived with the fear that people you loved might turn away from you if they ever got to know the true person hidden inside.”

People Ifs Knows Persons Self Might Turns Felt Understood Fraud Alienation Loathing Away From You Self Loathing True Person

Book:The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day

Source: The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day

“This person had arrived, he had illuminated her, he had ensorcelled her with notions of miracle and beauty, he had both understood and misunderstood her, he had married her, he had broken her heart, he had looked upon her with those sad and hopeless eyes, he had accepted his banishment, and now he was gone. What a stark and stunning thing was life- that such a cataclysm can enter and depart so quickly, and leave such wreckage behind!”

Heart Persons Eye Behinds Gone Broken Married Understood Miracle Notion Accepted Hopeless Misunderstood Starks Stunning Wreckage Banishment

Book:The Signature of All Things

Source: The Signature of All Things