Quotes About Perspective

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

While you spoke, it reached into the room switching off the mirrors in their frames and undeveloping your photographs; it gently drew a knife across the threads that tied your keepsakes to the things they kept

Fate's book, but my italics.

forget the ink, the milk, the blood - all was washed clean with the flood we rose up from the falling waters the fallen rain's own sons and daughters and none of this, none of this matters.

I never fail to be mystified by those who regard the revision of a former opinion as a sign of weakness.

Yes, I know Marcus Aurelius or Vauvenargues or Chesterton has already said this, and far better; but let's face it — you weren't listening then either.

Each man's death was his own. He may not choose the time or place, he may not even realize that he was dying, but no two departures from this life were ever perfectly identical.

Yet many times I felt terribly alone and was convinced that no one else understood. And I still think that's true. When our pain becomes intense and endures for weeks without relief, no one else really knows. I'm not sure it's worthwhile for them to know what it's like. They care. That's what I think is important.

Sometimes things we take for granted every day can be taken from us permanently and suddenly, we're changed forever.

I had seen my refusal as not wanting to impose; they saw my change as giving them an opportunity to help.

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Kierkegaard's advice. He suggested that we become subjective toward others and objective toward ourselves. That is, when we judge the actions of others, we should put ourselves in their place, trying to understand how they see themselves and their world. And when we judge ourselves, we should see ourselves as others see us, overcoming the ease with which we find extenuating circumstances for ourselves.

You know what's funny to me? Attitude.

Se fosse davvero oro, tutto questo finirebbe! Sarei più ricco, ma non sarei mai più lo stesso! L'aria fresca avrà un profumo migliore? I giorni di Sole saranno più luminosi? Le notte stellate nasconderanno altri segreti? O perderò tutto questo? Ma io davvero voglio essere... ricco? (Capitolo VIII)

Americans take their strength in victories, Mexicans' strength is in their ability to suffer loss.

Behavior that was cute when you were in your twenties becomes aggravating in your thirties, pathetic in your forties and tragic in your fifties.

As in life itself." Xue Xin chuckled. "Are we its guest, or its prisoner?

Victoria was always nagging him to eat better, drink less, and go to the gym, but then again, Pablo has long felt that she (barely) sublimates her innate fascism with exercise and diet regimens and has recently taken to attending weekly "boot camp" sessions where she probably achieves orgasms as some steroid-enraged instructor screams at her. Ana

Even a North American defense lawyer is right sometimes," Aguilar says. "Like a broken clock, twice a day.

Do you know what history is?" Peter asks. "History?" "Yeah." "I dunno," Frankie says, "it's things that happened." "No," Peter says, "it's what people say happened.

Everything is political," O'Brien says. "Especially these days.

mirrors reveal so little

Old men, he thinks, take their fading pleasures where they can.

The good old days sucked.