#mirrors

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others. ↗

— Pearl Bailey

#into #look #mirrors #only #others

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be. ↗

— Elizabeth Fishel

#both #dare #hold #images #mirrors

This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to the sounds I'm working with. Every song on this album I stand behind; I feel like I have a close relationship with them. There are older songs where I can feel myself writing a story, so this is the first album where I'm proud of every lyric.' ↗

— Gotye

#behind #character #close #close relationship #element

I grew up in dance class, so I was looking in mirrors all day. ↗

— Katharine McPhee

#class #dance #day #grew #i

Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them. ↗

— Paul Morand

#ice #melt #melts #mirrors #them

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#life #mirrors #art

Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?” “It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else? ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#anger #anger-management #defence #defensive-device #mirror

You're an intensely attractive woman. You do know that, don't you?" To her silence, he replied, "You'd believe me if you could see yourself." "I have seen myself. That's the snag, you see." He shook his head. "No, no. Not in a mirror. I know how mirrors work. They're all in league with the cosmetics trade. They tell a woman lies. Drawing her gaze from one imagined flaw to another, until all she sees is a constellation of imperfections. If you could get outside yourself, borrow my eyes for just an instant...There's only beauty. ↗

— Tessa Dare

#perception #beauty

She stayed beside me until I slept, waveringly, brilliantly, hooded in diaphanous scarlet, and occasionally she left an imperative written in lipstick on my dusty windowpane. BE AMOROUS! she exhorted one night and, another night, BE MYSTERIOUS! Some nights later, she scribbled: WHEN YOU BEGIN TO THINK, YOU LOSE THE POINT. ↗

— Angela Carter

#desire #dreams #lipstick #messages #mirrors

I just recently figured out how mirrors work. Pretty cool. That guy always hungrily staring at my naked body was me! ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #lust #mirrors #naked