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  1. E.L. Doctorow _ Homer & Langley

    There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.
    book-quotereflectionpower-of-words

  2. Russell Hoban _ The Medusa Frequency

    An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.
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  3. David Mitchell _ Cloud Atlas

    Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror."I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves.Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to.
    book-quotehistoryreflectionpostmodern

  4. Irvine Welsh _ Ecstasy

    We don't really communicate {…}. We talk all right, talk in that strange language we've evolved for the purposes of avoiding communication. That non-language we've created. Perhaps it's a sign that civilisation is regressing. Something is anyway.
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  5. Irvine Welsh _ Filth

    How did it make you feel?
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  6. Irvine Welsh _ Filth

    Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror.
    book-quotereflectionmirrorcoldness

  7. Charles Bukowski _ Ham on Rye

    I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.
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  8. Charles Bukowski _ Post Office

    Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
    book-quoteinspirationallifereflection

  9. David Levithan _ Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

    We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we're wrong. Someone we trust.
    book-quotelovereflectiontrust

  10. Ellis Peters _ The Heretic's Apprentice

    They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.
    book-quotereflectioncouragethought

  11. Dennis Lehane _ Shutter Island

    She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me in the eyes of my more astute colleagues, as bearing all the characteristics of the classic melancholic."
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  12. William Raymond Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer

    Biographer diagnoses reaction to restriction as a tell of true character. Some use even prison as a time of reflection and planning. Others, like Churchill, quickly chafe at missing interaction and opportunity.
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