Quotes About Perspective

You want me to lie to you? said McKay. I shrugged. Why not? I didn't mind lies.

Mrs. Farrell told me that no man was a monster, not even Heathcliff, and that most people's misdeeds were rooted in the treatment they'd received in the world.

Life was beautiful, everyone knew that, but it was also bitter and bleak and unfair as hell and where did that leave a person?

To be young and alive was a glorious thing. When you possessed it, you were likely unable to fully comprehend that it was a marvel and a gift, no matter your circumstances.

The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day.

I had always done as he asked, not because I was bound to do so by duty but because I saw the depth of who he was and how he himself suffered.

You don't forget the people you love," she told him. "That's what I've realized. They just get farther away. Like a spyglass turned around.

Às vezes, você não sabe como tem sorte na vida até que o tempo tenha passado. Sally tinha vontade de se sentar com as filhas e dizer: Não percam um só instante, mas aquilo não serviria de nada. A pessoa tinha que viver a vida antes de ver sentido nisso.

And then I realized what love did. It changed your whole world. Even when you didn't want it to.

She had ruined my father's life, and mine, and she didn't seem to notice. She was the sort of person who saw only herself and her shadow, and the rest of us disappeared in the bright sunlight.

Her vision was going, but she could see him, the way people see clouds-beautiful, racing by, casting shadows.

History is personal

I would only understand her grief when my child caused me my own.

P. L. Travers once said, 'A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Books] 'they will divide us. They'll make us think the world outside can teach you ore than you can learn right here

Sam said, Hey, you want to get high? Amy had taken his words to mean You are so beautiful I am undone by you.

so your husband's home with the little ones?—it'll be good for him, let him see what it's like with kids all day, right? men never understand until you ask them to do it and then they say, Well, the kids only act like this with me, it has to be much easier when you're with them, isn't that the truth? They're really thinking, You can't possibly put up with this day after day, can you?

As if only he and the blind man could see what the rest of them could not.

WHEN JOHN AND MARY KEANE said "during the war," their children imagined the world gone black and white, imagined a hand passing like a dark cloud over the earth, blotting out the sun for what might only have been the duration of a single night, or the length of a storm. Long before any of them was born, after all, their parents, the world itself, had emerged from that shadow.

It would be a different Church if I were running it." And so lifted the burden of that terrible morning with some laughter.

Why not? Bread was what you wanted over the long haul, when you got right down to it. When you got right down to it, you wouldn't want a lifetime of cake.

it—and he peered around at her from under its brim as if from under the rock of another life.

The windshield wipers were like a new beat in the day's rhythm. Mary

A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one.