Quotes About Perspective

I wonder what the kid I was then would think of the people we are now.

She acts like we don't remember, like there's some way I am ever going to forget. She acts like it's her personal tragedy and hers alone.

I live here, too, and I know the rules. Perhaps I even know them better than you since you were born into them, but I had to learn. Perhaps I know them better than you because you have greater leeway to break them.

What has changed? Is he different because I have forced him to be? Is it because he is away from Balekin? Or is he no different at all and I am only seeing what I want to see?

For a moment,'' he says, ''I wondered if it wasn't you shooting bolts at me.'' I make a face at him. ''And what made you decide it wasn't? He grins up at me. ''They missed.

You may command the sky,' the horned man in the golden scale mail returns. 'But alas, we are here on the ground.

Normal people," they'd say with a shudder. "Normal people think they're happy, but that because they're too dumb to know any different. Better to be miserable and interesting, right, kiddo?

They are beautiful and terrible, and they might despise my mortality, might mock it, but I am up here and they are not.

Ik heb raar gedroomd.' 'Laat me eens raden. Je werd vastgebonden door vrouwelijke ninja's. Met dikke tieten.' 'Eh, nee.'... 'Het zou ook wel een beetje raar zijn geweest als we allebei dezelfde droom hadden gehad.

They do not need to deceive humans. Humans will deceive themselves.

Jude and I had a misunderstanding,' Cardan says carefully. 'But we're not enemies. And I am not your enemy, either, Taryn.' 'You think everything's a game,' she says. 'You and Locke.' 'Unlike Locke, I never thought love was a game,' he says. 'You may accuse me of much, but not that.

Yo no quería hacerte daño. No, no es eso, no exactamente. Más bien pensaba que no podría hacerte daño.

Aaron shook his head, disappointed. "Why do you have to be such a jerk?" he asked Call. "Because you never are," Call told him staunchly."I have to be a jerk for both of us.

Just remember: Forever is relative. What one person sees as three years can feel like a lifetime to another.

Your dad used to say that our problems disappear when we laugh and I think he was right. They do, even if only for those few minutes while we are laughing.

History is neither truth nor completeness. It is simply the best story people can string together at the time, out of whatever facts and snippets they might have on hand.

and she reflected that thirty-five was a lot harder than twenty-five had been. She was pretty sure she was getting smarter, but she figured she was falling apart at the same rate. By the time she was seventy, she ought to be both brilliant and too decrepit to make any use of her hard-won knowledge.

We think of our emotions as being the result of something happening to us, but happiness is a choice.

He told me I could live in a corner of the world, like I was doing now, and think I was happy, or I could live in the whole world and know where I belonged," Peter said.

Maybe, no matter what right thing you tried to do, your action would be the wrong thing for somebody

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

A humorist is a fellow who realizes, first, that he is no better than anybody else, and, second, that nobody else is either.

It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.