Quotes About Perspective

Immortality is for the gods. Frankly, I don't know how they stand it.

Give Blackwater a chance," Jeremy suggested, opening the refrigerator door and hanging on it again, as if somehow the contents within had changed in the last five minutes.

That's the beauty of retrospect. One sees so much more clearly.

I'd subliminally determined at this point that the only way to really know what was going on in the world was to listen to women talk. Anyone who ignores the chatter of women is poorer by any measure.

All books are good,' he said... 'They weren't bad books,' Phin countered patiently. 'They were books that you didn't enjoy. It's not the same thing at all. The only bad books are books that are so badly written that no one will publish them. Any book that has been published is going to be a 'good book' for someone.' I nodded. I couldn't fault his logic.

She wondered if that was how it worked, that while most women spent their lives searching for the perfect man, men sat around waiting to be chosen and then made the best of it.

The only way to really know what was going on in the world was to listen to women talk. Anyone who ignores the chatter of women is poorer by any measure.

If people really grew up, there would be no crime, no divorce, no Civil War reenactors....it's not like you think it will be, that one day you'll wake up and realize that you've got things figured out. You never figure it out. Ever. - Isabel Spellman attempting to explain growing up to her sister Rae

Whoa, whoa!" he says as he sits up in bed. "You're beautiful. There is no ugly now. And I'm sure there was no ugly then. It was only how you felt when you were sick. I can understand that. But I can also assure you that you have never been ugly. There is only beauty here.

The blessing of a tragedy is that it puts your life into perspective.

Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time.

She kept an eye on the horizon, or where she thought it was, and understood that not everything that existed could be seen. Not every border was clear.

Harry Truman never said 'Give 'em hell.' He said, 'I just told him the truth and they thought it was hell.

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I knew my life would forever be divided into Before and After. I didn't

In our old age, smaller pleasures assume greater importance, don't you think?

Bars over the door, but not the window, and the roof looked

wanted her to be alive. I had taken alive for granted. Anguish

there's other things

Lisa Scottoline

It's funny, all the fussing and the fighting, the things that matter so much in life, all come to nothing, in death.

When you don't have much, having less isn't so bad.

I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.

I've never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn't know that there might be another way to live, and I didn't worry about it either.