Quotes About Perspective

Do you know the only difference between fear and excitement is the exhalation?

Madeleine thought, "thank you darling, because that always works, doesn't it, telling a woman to calm down

Sam always said she was overly sensitive to sounds because she was a musician, but she didn't think that was true; he was just astonishingly insensitive to them.

Ah, yes, money. They say it doesn't buy happiness, but I don't know about that.

It was strange how something could appear so attractive and then, the very moment you committed to it, become wildly unattractive.

her grandfather used to say, "Never spoil a good story with the facts.

one day you'll turn forty and you'll slowly realize you don't feel the eyes anymore, and the freedom is a relief, but you'll also sort of miss it, and when a truck driver whistles at you while you're crossing the road, you'll think, Really? For me?

Did you know that some people wish the Berlin Wall had never come down?" said Esther. "That's weird, isn't it? Why would you want to be stuck behind a wall?

looked back tenderly and condescendingly at herself a year ago: all that unnecessary drama! There was enough love to go around for everyone.

They were real, there was real pain in the world, right this very moment people were suffering unimaginable atrocities and you couldn't close your heart completely, but you couldn't leave it wide open either, because otherwise how could you possibly live your life, when through pure, random luck you got to live in paradise? You had to register the existence of evil, do the little that you could, and then close your mind and think about new shoes.

You could try as hard as possible to imagine someone else's tragedy – drowning in icy waters, living in a city split by a wall – but nothing truly hurt until it happened to you. Most of all, to your child.

At some point, Will made a choice to look at Felicity with the eyes of a single man. That was the moment he betrayed Tess.

Things aren't that simple," said Tiffany. "They are if we want them to be," said

People would consider it excessive and rather Italian if you started wailing at the death of an elderly person. Instead, you say things like, 'Well, he had a good innings, didn't he!' No

Hank didn't know that Lyn had no right to feel anxious when everyone knew her life was so wonderful, while Cat's was falling to pieces and Gemma couldn't seem to make one.

Bisexuals are like agnostics, trying to have it both ways.

word and its implications from every angle.

nothing truly hurts until it happens to you. Most of all, to your child.

Samantha: That Harper is so up herself. Of course it could have happened at a private school. And Abigail's intentions were so noble! It's just that fourteen-year-old girls are stupid. Poor Madeline. She blamed Nathan and Bonnie, although I don't know if that was fair.

Tess preferred people from her past to stay in the past. Ex-boyfriends, old school friends, past colleagues--really, what was the point of them? Life moves on. Tess quite enjoyed reminiscing ABOUT people she once knew, not WITH them.

Maybe she does think her life is a friggin' fairytale, like her friend Claire had said once when they were both very drunk. 'Sophie, your problem is that you think life is a friggin' fairytale. You're so friggin' optimistic you don't just see the glass as half-full, you see it as full, of, of…pink champagne! And the thing is, the glass isn't full, Sophie! It's half empty!

Other people's problems always seemed so surmountable, and other people's children so much more biddable.

Was today the worst anniversary yet, or was it always this bad? It was probably always this bad. It was so easy to forget how bad things were. Like winter. Like the flu. Like childbirth.

It was just that there were so many different levels of "comfortable," and at Celeste's level no electricity bill could make her cry.