Quotes About Perspective

It was funny how you could go somewhere and your whole life could stretch out and then you could come home and have it all shrink back to the way it was before. It was funny that it didn't stay stretched.

You think you know that someone sees you one way, and barely at all, and then you realize that they see you in another. That was the night I realized (She) had seen- really seen- me all along.

Sadness is only something that's part of you. Grief becomes you; it wraps you up and changes you and makes everything - every little thing - different than it was before.

It made her think about how she couldn't believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her.

You're the main character of your life," Jacie said. "You're too important to die. That's how everybody feels.

You think you know that someone sees you one way, and barely at all, and then you realize that they see you in another. That was the night I realized Tiger Lily had seen- really seen- me all along.

By the time she was fifteen, the age she was the day of the shipwreck, opinions by the dozen landed in each hollow track left by her feet.

I've made a discovery, and it's that grief isn't like sadness at all. Sadness is only something that's part of you. Grief becomes you, it wraps you up and changes you and makes everything--every little thing--different than it was before. I remember the me before we got the telegram saying he was gone, but it's like I'm remembering someone else. It feels like an earthquake has gone through me...

Manhattan can be beautiful, Ellis, if you are willing to see it and not compare it to what you loved before

You think you know that someone sees you one way, and barely at all, and then you realize that they see you in another.

When Peter made mistakes, Wendy cheered for him anyway. One afternoon he beat her and everyone else in a race organized by Slightly. She only laughed and squeezed his wrist with easy affection and told him how fast he was. She was so undeterred by losing that it made the boys wonder if winning was exactly what they'd thought it was or if in England it was different.

It made her think about how she couldn't believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her

And to Tiger Lily he suddenly, inexplicably, seemed older than her, and wiser, and the thought hit her hard that it wasn't fair, because she'd suffered, and there he was, looking like he knew so much more than she ever would.

It never occurred to me before, but there could have easily been a world with no buses, no horns honking, no red lights, no shopping carts, no gum stick to the bottom of benches downtown. For that matter I guess there also could have been no sun, no trees, and no ocean. None of those things had to exist, I guess. It makes me feel lucky that they do.

he just seemed—not so much like a dad but like any person who didn't have things figured out. Maybe the world is a mystery to everyone, even the smartest people or the oldest people, even

I'm thinking of things I like about living more than I realized; insane things considering how trivial they are. I like Burger King fries. I like watching my dad listening to Hall & Oates. The smell of new tennis balls. I love this old collection of unicorn stickers I have in a cookie tin in my closet. Maybe this is life flashing before your eyes; maybe it's supposed to be mundane.

May looked back at the girl again. It was her, May and it wasn't.

I'm not myself', she offered guiltily. ... He smiled. 'You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right now that you don't like.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

How do you know what a rock star feels like, Ada May? Have you ever been a rock star? I don't think so,' Beth Ann said. 'I was just guessing.' 'Well, not me. I'm not saying I feel like something when I don't have any idea what that feels like and neither do you.

Think of it as a life experience," I mumbled. "Isn't your dad always saying we need more of that?" "I don't think prancing around PJ Jamieson's pool in our underwear is exactly what he had in mind.

Something occurs to me. "Have you ever tried writing something from Astrid's point of view?

Child, I have been around a lot of years, and if you don't laugh, you cry.

We think fathers are supposed to be these perfect role models – and maybe they should be, but really their just men. I think most daughters lose sight of that fact and then when their dad's fall short of the 'God' status they get hurt. They're men. We need to keep it in perspective and not set our standards so high. Face it, most of them should have to apply for a license just to be able to procreate. Seriously