Quotes About Perspective

You ever think what it would be like to meet a person you've known for a long time for the first time in these later years? To meet them anew. You're thinking they would be a much different person to you if you didn't know their history.

Did I kill a lot of people? I been asked that question a few times. But never before by a man. I told this one girl I was seeing that yes I had killed a bunch of gooks but that I hadnt eaten any of them.

For the world was made new each day and it was only men's clinging to its vanished husks that could make of that world one husk more.

Before we mire up too deep in the accusatory voice it might be well to remind ourselves that you can't misrepresent what has yet to occur.

Ci sono un sacco di cose che sembrano più belle, viste da lontano. Si? Almeno così la penso io. E hai ragione. La vita passata, per esempio. Già. E magari anche la vita non ancora vissuta.

Why are you by yourself? I'm not by myself. I'm schizophrenic.

She aint worth it. None of em are. He didnt answer for a while. Then he said: Yes they are. When

I dont believe that the world can be better than what you allow it to be. Dark a world as you live in, they aint goin to be a whole lot of surprises in the way of good news.

If you sincerely want to hear all about what is wrong with you and what you ought to do to rectify it all you need to do is let them inlaws on the place. You'll get a complete rundown on the subject and I guarantee it. She

Solo hay una verdad, dijo John Grady. La verdad es lo que ocurrió. No es lo que sale de la boca de alguien.

That's where you're wrong my friend. Everything's important. A man lives his life, he has to make that important. Whether he's a small town county sheriff or the president. Or a busted out bum. You might even understand that some day.

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.

We're all liars when it serves our purpose.

I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.

Why did such truths only reveal themselves after they'd become lies?

Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew the story it was going to tell her.

Sometimes Fox thought all the men she knew had the dreams and wishes of nine-year-old boys—at least all the men she liked.

I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six." Of

Denkst du nicht auch, dass man von Zeit zu Zeit Geschichten lesen sollte, in denen alles etwas anders ist als in unserer Welt? Nichts lehrt einen besser zu fragen, warum die Bäume grün und nicht rot sind und warum man nur fünf und nicht sechs Finger hat.

He simply didn't see the world as it really was, that was the explanation - neither the world nor the people he felt so sorry for. Because if you did see them for what they were, what on earth would make you want to fight and even die for them?

Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: it always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on – developing and changing like our own world.

I'd believe any story at all just so long as it's well told.

You're paying the price now, Elinor,' she often told herself these days. Paying the price for the happiness of those last months. Didn't books always say that, too: that there's always a price to pay for happiness? How could she ever have thought she would simply find it and be allowed to keep it?