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• If she were here I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off her. I would hold her so close she'd beg me to let her breathe. I'd kiss her so hard she'd plead for mercy. I'd unfasten her clothing and lie with her onthat hard bed, and what was between us would be as far above the ordinary congress between man and woman as the stars are above their pale reflections in the lake below.

  Juliet Marillier

  Stars, Lying, Kissing

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heir to Sevenwaters”, p.343, Pan Macmillan

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• Cold as winter, strong as stone; She faced the darkness all alone. A silver goddess; a reflection. A mirage; a recollection. No return; no turning back. The past is gone, the future, black. Serpents gather in their nest, And she stands above the rest. Shadows hunt; she hunts the shadow. The moon is risen; she stands below. She views her world through the eyes of others. Black and white; there are no colors, As she looks down upon a shattered youth. A shattered mirror shows a shattered truth.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Strong, Eye, Black And White

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• But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail.

  Eminem

  Self, Mail, Checks

  Song: Sing for the Moment, Album: The Eminem Show

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• I will be my undoing, If I become my obsession. I will forget the ones I love, If I do not serve them. I will war with others, If I refuse to see them. Therefore, I choose to turn away From my reflection, To rely not on myself But on my brothers and sisters, To project always outward Until I disappear [And only God remains.]

  Veronica Roth

  Brother, War, Obsession

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• I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Soul, Void, Saws

  FaceBook post by Sebastian Faulks from Jan 20, 2015

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• I couldn't imagine that I'd ever fall in love again like I had with Gideon. For better or worse, he was my soulmate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection.

  Sylvia Day

  Falling In Love, Soulmate, Way

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.479, Penguin

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• I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didn’t mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Beautiful, Song, Mean

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold it together...he saw the true face of the twentieth century and chose to become a reflection of it, a parody of it. No one else saw the joke. That's why he was lonely.

  Alan Moore

  Lonely, Men, Trying

  "Watchmen". Comic book by Alan Moore, 1986-1987.

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• Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like something I had tamed...I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Glasses, Heaven, Scare

  Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

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• If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.

  Jean Genet

  World, Want, Sides

  Jean Genet (1960). “The Balcony: (Le Balcon) a Play in Nine Scenes”

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• But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing—of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes one’s soul a reflection of the partner’s moods. And as a room seems larger when it is lined with mirrors, so do the joys become amplified. And as the individual items within the mirrored room seem less acute, so does pain diminish and fade, stretched thin by the sharing. That is the beauty of love, whether in passion or friendship. A sharing that multiplies the joys and thins the pains.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Laughter, Pain, Passion

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• Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dark, Night, Shining

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.558, Wordsworth Editions

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• How we see God is a direct reflection of how we see ourselves. If God brings to mind mostly fear and blame, it means there is too much fear and blame welled inside us. If we see God as full of love and compassion, so are we.

  Elif Safak

  Mean, Compassion, Mind

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• What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Who We Are, Embrace

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• Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself

  Jennifer Worth

  Matter, Impossible, Quiet

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• Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

  Victor Hugo

  Eye, Animal, Soul

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?

  Ann Brashares

  Forget, Ifs

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.24, Penguin

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• Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still...All mirrors are magic mirrors. The commonest room is a room in a poem when I turn to the glass...There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

  George MacDonald

  Strong, Reality, Glasses

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• ‎What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection? In a 21st-century society wired into instantaneous networks, marketing is the mirror; the collective consumer is the chameleon.

  Kevin Kelly

  Fashion, Taken, Color

  Kevin Kelly (1995). “Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World”, p.70, Basic Books

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• Sometimes I'd catch myself looking at my reflection in windows and wonder who I was. Where I was going. Then the image would change and it wouldn't be me, just some nebulous shadow person.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Shadow, Wonder, Sometimes

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• My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love Is, Valuable, Ought

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens, When I have no engagements written on my block, When no one comes to disturb my inward peace, When no one comes to take me away from myself And turn me into a patchwork, a jig-saw puzzle, A broken mirror that once gave a whole reflection, Being so contrived that it takes too long a time To get myself back to myself when they have gone.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Block, Mirrors, Long

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• I've been afraid of being Cansrel,' she said aloud to her reflection. 'But I'm not Cansrel.' At her elbow, Musa said blandly, 'Any one of us could have told you that, Lady.' Fire looked at the captain of her guard and laughed, because she wasn't Cansrel- she wasn't anyone but herself. She had no one's path to follow; her path was her own to choose.

  Kristin Cashore

  Fire, Elbows, Captains

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.120, Penguin

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• There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it’s that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don’t see what you wish to see—or glimpse something that you wish weren’t there.

  Dean Koontz

  Eye, Vanity, Wish

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1676, Bantam

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• If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. Respect thus implies the absence of exploitation: it allows the other to be, to change and to develop 'in his own ways.' This requires a commitment to know the other as a separate being, and not merely as a reflection of my own ego. According to Velleman this loving willingness and ability to see the other as they really are is foregrounded in our willingness to risk self-exposure.

  Erich Fromm

  Commitment, Self, Ego

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