#impressions

When the wave, equally suddenly, retreated, it left a void which resembled that of the morning, yet had a character of its own, because though the pattern was repeated it was in reverse order: the scattered schoolchildren who passed my window now were on their way home and there was something unrestrained and boisterous about them, whereas when they had walked past on their way to school in the morning they still bore the silent imprint of sleep and the innate wariness we feel toward things that have not yet begun. ↗

— Karl Ove Knausgård

#impressions #patterns #equality

Who are you anyway? What are you even doing here?” “Haven,” she said quietly, peeking at him. He gazed at her peculiarly. “Heaven? No, this definitely isn't Heaven. But I get why you’re confused, since I'm standing in front of you.” She stared at him, and he cracked a smile. “I'm kidding. Well, kinda… I have been told I've taken a girl to Heaven a time or two.” “Haven, not Heaven,” she said, louder than before. Nothing about the conversation made sense to her. “My name’s Haven. ↗

— J.M. Darhower

#first-impressions #first-love #friendship #girl #love

Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you're making. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#self-consciousness #social-life #life

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#desires #flesh #hard #impressions #make

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. ↗

— George Eliot

#degree #derived #each #follow #freedom

I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script. ↗

— Dennis Farina

#first impressions #i #i think #important #impressions

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas. ↗

— George Eliot

#had #harold #him #ideas #impressions

IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#austrian #confused #during #duty #find

Even my great grand-mother did impressions. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#even #great #impressions

Anger does not last, that way, for years. But there are other things. Impressions last, when they have been strong. ↗

— Henry James

#anger