Quotes About Perspective

Sometimes people you want to believe in will disappoint you. The more you learn about the world, the fewer illusions you'll have.

Heaven forbid that we should spend an evening with people who are not exactly the same as ourselves. We might learn something.

You're laughing at me." "No, I'm laughing with you, but in a slightly superior way.

As far as being self-centered, you have no way of knowing how much I've done, if anything, for other people.

About what?" "Being led around by the nose by your wife." That drew a wry grin from Hunt, and he shook his head. "If my wife does lead me around, Westcliff, it's by an altogether different body part. And no, I have no regrets whatsoever.

I won't do it. I'm no more important than anyone else here-" "You are to me.

It's not all about what you want. It's also about what she wants. No matter what your intentions, most women don't like it when you make their decisions for them.

You should have come to me first." "I didn't think you'd listen, or agree with what I had to say." "I'll always listen. I won't always agree.

Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.

Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire." ~ Liberty Jones

There's so much gray to every story—nothing is so black and white.

The latter. She had a good run," Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was a safe bet that he felt that way about himself. Like most twice-widowed, Korea-vet, nature-loving, gun-enthusiast, bilingual, weed-connoisseur great grandfathers of five, he'd lived a full life.

Sometimes fear and dread are superior to tedium.

The problem isn't reading Ayn Rand, it's liking her.

Everyone should know what it's like to get a C.

Kate ranked the sunset against a few others and it came up short, but sunsets were like pizza, she though; they were all pretty good.

Luna and Owen took a walk along the river, ate cider doughnuts, and visited a tourism info booth, hunting for any form of amusement. They were surrounded by people decades older who were thrilled by the sight of a dead leaf. "Is that what happens when you get older? You get more and more excited by smaller and smaller things?" Owen asked. "I hope so," Luna said.

My mother used to say, If you stared at him long enough, he was handsome. And my father would continue, But your mother was the only one who had the patience.

boundary blindness

But some men can only read their internal weather report and have no concept that another human might not want the same things they want.

Luna nodded at Greg, who returned the look with an embarrassed smile. Greg always seemed confused by his wife's behavior, as if she were an alien with entirely different customs from his.

When did things go wrong?" "Your question is based on a faulty premise. Who says there was something wrong with the marriage?

The girl was confused. It was a misunderstanding. That's all. What was the crux of the misunderstanding? She didn't say no.

He tried to remember, to repeat, to imprint in his brain, Luna's parting words of advice: People don't know what you think they know.