“Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.”

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”

“Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.”

“A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.”

“You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all things is the same as not to see.”

“How she wanted to put away adult things and go back to seeing through a looking-glass, darkly.”