“You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.”

Source: The Book of Blood and Shadow

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Robin Wasserman5

American writer of speculative fiction for young people 1978

Raymond Reddington

The Blacklist

“Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

Interview with Julius Lester, "James Baldwin: Reflections of a Maverick" in The New York Times (27 May 1984)
Variant: You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.

“That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown.”

Sophie Kinsella book Shopaholic Abroad

Source: Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

“This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.”

Patrick Modiano (1945) French writer

Source: The Search Warrant (2000), p. 46

“until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Variant: That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one
Source: Vanishing Acts