Quotes About Perspective

I was something women and men could agree on. They didn't like me in the same way, but they liked me with the same intensity, and were all fine with the other sex liking me, too. Isn't that weird? Think about it. And then stop and ponder something actually important.

You can set up housekeeping on one side of the looking glass or the other--the side that makes big things small or small things big.

let's face it, the world of sex is weird no matter how you look at it. I mean—fourteen hours after you've had your face smashed into someone's genitals, you're walking down the street with the boy as though that were all "just fine, thank you, how are you!

Not that I'm a big fan of my face, but still- it is mine, whichever way you tilt it. I didn't like my face when I should have and now it's melted, I look back on that face fondly.

Baby, the fact that you know that's funny is going to save your whole life.

Here's what he said: People adapt to you. Don't worry, you can't be what they think of ou to any degree, and by the same token what they think of you can't alter you.

I had endless issues with my appearance in Star Wars. Real ones - not ones you bring up so people think you're humble because you secretly find yourself adorable. What I saw in the mirror is not apparently what many teenage boys saw.

Youth and beauty are not accomplishments, they're the temporary happy by-products of time and/or DNA. Don't hold your breath for either

But ultimately I feel I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

And based on the lives depicted on those shows, I knew my life was a different sort of real. It was the only reality I knew, but compared to other folks—both on television and off—it eventually struck me as a little surreal, too. And eventually, too, I understood that my version of reality had a tendency to set me apart from others.

She wondered if she was in the midst of an anecdote that, for reasons of proximity, she was not yet able to perceive.

Youth and beauty are not accomplishments… Don't hold your breath for either.

Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime.

It's like I've got a visa for happiness, but for sadness I've got a lifetime pass.

He told her what was happening in the world that he belonged to and she visited.

I have to start by telling you that my entire existence could be summed up in one phrase. And that is: If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

Zara, sympathy is just a good excuse to buy greeting cards and make sorry eyes and secretly gloat over how glad you are that you aren't the person whose crap is hanging out for everyone to see.

What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.

Maybe he wants you to be his queen," Devyn saids. "Continue the line." "That's crap," Nick says. "Yeah." I glare at him. "Why would anyone want me to be their queen?" "That's not what I meant." The front legs of Nick's chair slam back down.

I don't think we ever find anything, do we? I mean in life. We think we find things and then it turns out those things aren't what we thought.

Is everyone as wrong about me as I am about them?

Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands. When you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.

I can't believe this is happening to me. The weirdest thing is it was just a dream, and now it's actually real. It's hard to believe sometimes.

Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world. Yeah, I know there are more important things. But don't forget to remember me.