Ann Aguirre Quotes

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

People can misconstrue closeness for love.

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor - the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

It's shocking the things we call love.

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

I'm not who you think i am. If you love me, you love me for the wrong reasons.

A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.

I am not what you see and hear.

Sometimes when you're at your most certain, that's when everything you know is wrong.

I’m not anything that you think I am.

It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day - you can think you know them - and then you fшnd out you hardly know them at all.

We also confuse trust with familiarity.

How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed makes you kissable, like feeling warm makes you coffee, like liking movies makes you a director. How utterly incorrect to think it any other way, a box of crap is treasures, a boy smiling means it, a gentle moment is a life improved.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.

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

It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and changed into itself over and over.

We had lain together, skin on skin, been as close as two people could, and he was a stranger. He was that someone who you are afraid of as a child, stranger. They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

All of us... when we think we are talking most intimately to someone else, are actually addressing an image we have of the person to whom we believe we speak.

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.