#mirrors

Telling a woman that you will be unable to climax unless you are looking at her in a mirror is, in my experience, an excellent way to ensure the only place you will ever see her again is in depressing memories. ↗

— Stephen Moles

#love #mirrors #orgasms #relationships #sex

I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses! Oh Lord! There is not getting away from one's self ↗

— Jane Austen

#mirrors #humor

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

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

Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#mirrors #reflections #seconds #shrinking #silence

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service. ↗

— Joan Didion

#been #course #flawless #great #hotels

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#fantasy #imagination #mirrors

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#faithful #heroes #mind #minds #mirrors