Sarah Dessen Quotes

The way you see me on 'Jersey' is a snapshot, and you can't judge from a snapshot.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.

But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didn’t need the Mist to warp their perceptions.

We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.

Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.

Whatever it is, it feels like it's laughing at me Through the glass of a two-sided mirror.

The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.

Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete

We hear things, but we can't always see them, or, even if we do see them, we're not sure that we're seeing correctly. Hence: Invisible.

Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

Truth wasn't something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope to see was a tiny part of it. And to see that part and to mistake it for the whole was to make of Truth a lie.

A lamb appears a lion, and we fear Each bush we see's a bear.

There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.

Everything that happens is at least one dimension smaller than you've imagined it to be.

Color deceives continuously.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

People think that they see, but they don't.

There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.