not what things seem Quotes

“In the real world as in dreams, nothing is quite as it seems.”

“Though there was nowhere one so busy as he, He was less busy than he seemed to be.”

Or one might take the tip of the pencil and magnify it. One reaches the point where a stunning realization strikes home: The pencil tip is not solid; it is composed of atoms which whirl and revolve like a trillion demon planets. What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity.

″‘Scuse me. We’re heading straight for a brick wall.’ ‘Don’t...worry, Robin...it’s just a hologram”

“Things are never what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.”

“In the kitchen he crossed to the window, where two white objects lay on the sill. They were not what they seemed. Only he knew what they were. He laid his hands on them, felt their warmth. ‘I must get you ready,’ he whispered. ‘The ones who can use you have come.‘”