Reading People Quotes

“True deduction can only be obtained through a certain amount of self annihilation.”
― Joe Riggs, The Real Sherlock Holmes: The mysterious methods and curious history of a true mental specialist

“Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of words, no menace of real loss. Reading books required far less energy than reading people; the pages seldom disappointed him and they never died.”
― Dan Groat, Monarchs and Mendicants

“I studied the smile, couldn’t decide if it looked sincere or rehearsed. And that thought troubled me. I was good at reading people and their intentions, but only if I wasn’t too invested. Once invested, I couldn’t separate what I wished to be true from what was actually true.”
― Penny Reid, Grin and Beard It

“I find people confusing.
This is for two main reasons.
The first main reason is that people do a lot of talking without using any words. Siobhan says that if you raise one eyebrow it can mean lots of different things. It can mean "I want to do sex with you" and it can also mean "I think that what you said was very stupid.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide)

“Suddenly he's made of still water instead of stone, and I can see a series of emotions rippling across his surface: terrible suspicion, shock, grief, abyssal guilt.”
― Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

“People were so easy to predict if one only paid attention to their lips. Most people told their stories there without even needing to open their mouths.”
― Molly Collier, The Paragon