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invisible Quotes

46 of the best book quotes about invisible
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“The founder [of the Company] had written: “The three virtues of the Stranger are to be silent, to be cunning, but above all to be invisible.”
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“Though the visible whole has come out from that Invisible Whole, yet the Whole remains unaltered.”
03
“There were thousands of ‘dead’ spaces like the lot I had observed, thousands of transitional environments that no one saw, that had been rendered invisible because they were not ‘of use.’ ”
04
“I am visible-see this Indian face-yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist, we exist. They’d like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven’t. We haven’t.”
05
Where the Sith once wore armor, we now wear cloaks. But the Force works through us all the more powerfully in our invisibility.
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“He had a colorless translucence about him that made him seem as if he were in the earliest stages of progressive invisibility.”
07
“Most of all, Hugo would do his best to remain invisible.”
08
“The fragile balance depends on things we’ll never be able to see, hear, smell, taste, or touch. Life itself depends on them. ”
09
“And then one day the invisible man decided, the monster said, its voice ringing in Conor’s ears, I will make them see me.”
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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
11
After years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled. I am an invisible man.
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“And here we see the invisible boy In his lovely invisible house, Feeding a piece of invisible cheese To a little invisible mouse. Oh, what a beautiful picture to see! Will you draw an invisible picture for me?”
13
“Negroes do not, strictly or legally speaking, exist in any other [country]. ”
14
“Once upon a time a man who had become invisible arrived in America.”
15
“For as long as she’s been alive, the family has never spoken of it, and even if they had, it would have changed nothing.”
16
“…If I can’t be beautiful, I want to be invisible…”
17
“Religious Warfare: Someone has described religious warfare as ‘killing people over who has the best invisible friend.’ We tend to agree.”
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“Whether you were visible or invisible, it was all about how other people reacted to you. Good and bad things happened either way. If you were invisible, the bad people couldn’t hurt you, that was true. But the good people couldn’t help you, either.”
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“She’d felt ragingly alive in the dream, but now she’s as inert as the eggs cooling on a plate. Ther’s a mirror her in the bedroom, too, but she chooses not to look at it, just in case her hunch is true and she’s invisible.”
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“Our understanding of racism is therefore shaped by the most extreme expressions of individual bigotry, not by the way in which it functions naturally, almost invisibly (and sometimes with genuinely benign intent), when it is embedded in the structure of a social system.”
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“Our understanding of racism is therefore shaped by the most extreme expressions of individual bigotry, not by the way in which it functions naturally, almost invisibly (and sometimes with genuinely benign intent), when it is embedded in the structure of a social system.”
22
“An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.”
23
“Root tilted his polymer wings, hugging the underside of a fogbank. There was no need to be careful. With his shield activated, he was invisible to the human eye. Even on stealth-sensitive radar he would be no more than a barely perceptible distortion. The commander swooped low to the gunwales. It was an ugly craft, this one. The smell of death and pain lingered in the blood swabbed decks. Many noble creatures had died here, died and been dissected for a few bars of soap and some heating oil. Root shook his head. Humans were such barbarians.”
24
“I’m invisible, see? One of the invisible people. Right now I’m sitting in a doorway watching the passers-by. They avoid looking at me. They’re afraid I want something they’ve got, and they’re right.”
25
“At school Mrs. Dickens liked Paul’s picture of the sailboat better than my picture of the invisible castle.”
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“Mum had said that if he made himself invisible people would like him and he wanted that very much.”
27
“It wasn’t my best look, but I’d gone to school with the same kids my whole life. I was wallpaper. No one was looking.”
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“Gwendolen put out her hand at the same moment. She did not say anything. Neither did Mrs. Sharp. Both their hands stood still in the air. There was a feeling of fierce invisible struggle.”
29
“Because she couldn’t be seen she was safe from snakes, which is why Grandma Poss had made her invisible in the first place.”
30
“Grandma Poss made bush magic. She made wombats blue and kookaburras pink. She made dingoes smile and emus shrink. But the best magic of all was the magic that made Hush INVISIBLE.”
31
“Because she couldn’t be seen she could be squashed by koalas. Because she couldn’t be seen she could slide down kangaroos.”
32
“They ate Anzac biscuits in Adelaide, mornay and Minties in Melbourne, steak and salad in Sydney and pumpkin scones in Brisbane. Hush remained invisible.”
33
“Hush breathed deeply and began to eat. ‘A tail! A tail!’ shouted both possums at once. For there it was. A brand new, visible tail!”
34
“Being invisible had nothing to do with being seen. Being invisible meant not being sensed or felt.”
35
“the most marvelous cloth...invisible to anyone who was unfit for his office or unforgivably stupid”
36
“We also notice, at the other end, how the shadows of old age are lit more and more from the invisible world.”
37
“Maybe this is one of the secrets of death: that you die only when your invisible, unchosen lives have also fulfilled themselves, so that you bring into the eternal world not only your one known life but also the unknown, unchosen lives as well.”
38
“For so many years my insignificance and invisibility have been a mask I can hide behind. And in the process I have avoided raking up the past. Raking up the shame.”
39
“The things of the invisible world attract me more than those of actual life.”
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40
″‘I’m trying to make myself invisible.’ ‘That’s an odd thing to attempt.‘”
41
“Right there was our catch-22: Because the country was so inaccessible, disabled people had a hard time getting out and doing things—which made us invisible. So we were easy to discount and ignore. Until institutions were forced to accommodate us we would remain locked out and invisible—and as long as we were locked out and invisible, no one would see our true force and would dismiss us.”
42
″‘You don’t understand,’ he said, ‘who I am or what I am. I’ll show you. By Heaven! I’ll show you.’ Then he put his open palm over his face and withdrew it. The centre of his face became a black cavity.”
43
“‘I’ve chosen you,’ said the Voice. ‘You are the only man except some of those fools down there, who knows there is such a thing as an invisible man. You have to be my helper. Help me—and I will do great things for you. An invisible man is a man of power.‘”
44
“Doesn’t seem fair. Nobody ever paid me any attention. I skated by. Kept my head low. Now I’m famous.”
45
“Inman did not consider himself to be a superstitious person, but he did believe that there is a world invisible to us. He no longer thought of that world as heaven, nor did he still think that we get to go there when we die. Those teachings had been burned away. But he could not abide by a universe composed only of what he could see, especially when it was so frequently foul.”
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“I had tampered with the mystery of existence and I had lost the sense of my own being. This is what devas­tated me. The Griffin that was had become invisible.”

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