Quotes About Perspective

Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.

Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.

Carmen hated the 'life is too short rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because life is too short not to, you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.

Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)

The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.

Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman

Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson

I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want when you are older.' After that, the thing that scared me was not so much the motorcycle itself, but that I could turn into a person who would want one. I was scared of the idea that I could become an entirely different person, a stranger to myself.

Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed.

All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?

Thoughts were nothing. Memories were nothing. They were nothing you could touch. They took no time. You could fit them all on the point of a pin. You could bring your entire world into doubt in a span of a few seconds.

There was a satisfaction in being right and a terror in finding so much evidence that the world didn't work the way you or most other people thought it did.

You Could Only See As Far As Your Headlights, But You Can Make Your Whole Trip That Way :)

When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes

It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.

Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures.

Treasure in such large amounts stopped feeling precious

She was back on the ground, looking down at the bugs rather than up at the sky.

The thing you had had and loved and taken for granted caught up with you all at once and for no sensible reason suddenly cost more than you could afford.

In a flash of wonderment she saw firm, continuous ground under her feet, stretching from back then to right now and on and on as far as her eyes could take her.

You don't mean it, he said mournfully. Not at all, she thought. Yes, I do, she said.

Era triste per quello che era successo a Kostos. E da qualche parte era triste perché gente come Bee e Kostos, che avevano perso tutto, erano ancora aperti all'amore, e lei che non aveva perso nulla non lo era.

You couldn`t always know what would matter to you.