Quotes About Perspective

People see what they want to see when they need to.

Okay. That's fair. Abso-tive-ly fair. Let's say the tables were turned. If I were about to walk off a cliff, what would you do?" Evie pursed her lips. "Push?" "I don't believe that." "You would on the way down.

Agent Jones held Sinjin's face in his hands. "I'm going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals." "How right you are, strange delusional man," Sinjin said.

Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.

Taylor clapped for attention. "Miss New Mexico, let's not get all down in the bummer basement where the creepy things live. There are people in heathen China who don't even have airline trays. We have a lot to be grateful for.

dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.

It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

Simplifying people was a way of not having to think too much about them, to make them fit into your own story. People were inconvenient, though. Behind the idea of a person you constructed to suit yourself, the people you loved had their own stories- whole worlds going on inside- and you ignored them at your peril.

When did you become a cynic?" Sam asked. Evie smiled. "When I found out I was a little girl.

Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of 'them' & widen the circle of 'us.

Blood is thicker than water. That's what they say. But in truth, most things are.

See, the trouble with Nietzsche, besides his being a real killjoy, is that he thinks like a spoiled seven-year-old who doesn't want to share his sandbox toys—" "Sam!

Miss New Mexico stared, dumbfounded. Stand out? Stand out? I have a freaking tray stuck in my forehead! She broke into fresh sobs. Taylor clapped for attention. Miss New Mexico, let's not get all down in the bummer basement where the creepy things live. There are people in heathen China who don't even have airline trays. We have a lot to be grateful for.

There's nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.

There is no greater power on this earth than story....

There is no meaning but what we assign. We create our own reality. I can live with that.

There's nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right

There is no greater power on this earth than story. The Diviners by Libba Bray page 407 paragraph 4 sentence 1

There's nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.

Through the window I saw buildings the size of dollhouses, cars that crawled like ants.

My days keep getting shorter. When I'm a hundred, I'll be going to bed before I get up.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.