Søren Kierkegaard

I’m not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I’m intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

Tori Amos

what it is like to look fully into eyes that one has known that well – known better than one knows the look of one’s own eyes, actually – and then put away, deliberately forgotten. That instantly reasserted intimacy, that resumption of what looks like friendly concern, is like nakedness, like exposure.

~ Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose