Stacey D'Erasmo Quotes

You don't know what it's like to be me.

They see her differently now, as somebody. And isn't that what everyone wants? To be seen?

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

We see only that which we are.

It's probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are.

But what I thought, and what I still think, and always will, is that she saw me. Nobody else has ever seen me — me, Jenny Gluckstein — like that. Not my parents, not Julian, not even Meena. Love is one thing — recognition is something else.

Obvious to you is amazing to others.

A world view is probably an expression of self.

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

I can't just expect people to know what to say. I have to make them see me as more than my illness.

I don't always feel seen.

It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.

You're wrong means that I don't understand you, I'm not seeing what you're seeing- and I'm not seeing all of you there is to see. But there is nothing wrong with you. You are what you need to be, doing what you need to be doing, and although I may take steps to protect myself of others, I do not know all and therefore am literally inadequate to judge.

Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?

Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.

I suppose frogs pay no attention to being frogs. They take it for granted. What interests a frog are differences among frogs. From our point of view they are more or less the same, from their point of view they are all radically different.

Also, where does your identity come from? Your memory, of course.

You'll never see it my way, because you're not me!

I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.

It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.

I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.