Quotes About Perspective

I'm somebody who looks at things through the lens of being a wife and being a mother and being a United States Marine.

I know some people see it as this success when the book is finally made into a movie - that marks its success. I don't see it that way.

I would never marry for feelings and love.

that was the difference between an American and an Englishman. An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.

Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.

Doors are very powerful things. Things are different on either side of them.

I've often noticed Fiona said, that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.

In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.

The truth between two people always cuts two ways.

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

Sophie listened and felt sad. Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.

As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.

No I am not all right!" Chrestomanci said, after five minutes of this. "I have worldwide blisters. I need a shave. I'm tired out and I haven't had anything to eat since breakfast yesterday. Would you feel alright in my position?

Sorry I gave you a fright. Howl seemed more used to holding babies than Sophie was. He rocked Morgan soothingly and stared at him. Morgan stared, rather balefullt, back. My word, he's ugly Howl said. Chip off the old block Howl! said Sophie. But she did not sound angry.

Anyway, Sophie's experience told her that tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

There goes Mig with her happy endings again, Chris said. But I don't care. I like happy endings. And I asked Chris why something should be truer just because it's unhappy. He couldn't answer.

You know this could kill me, don't you?' 'Look on the bright side,' said Howl. 'It could be me it kills.

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories.

If you stood up and told the truth in the wrong way, it was not true any longer, though it might be as powerful as ever.

Don't think I can't see your point of view — you're a young fellow, disappointed in love, impatient — naturally you think Fate's against you. Take it from me, Fate doesn't care either way most of the time.

It never ceases to amaze me," [Chrestomanci] said, "the way people always manage to worry about the wrong things. My dear sir, do you realise that you, your son, and four of your pupils, are all likely to be burnt unless we do something? And here are you worrying about timetables.

He is real, in his own way, Ann pointed out. After all, what's real? How do you know I'm real, or if you are?

And you call yourself a god! Tanamil fetched himself up onto one elbow and said, very earnestly, a very strange thing. I never called myself that, he said. Neither I nor any of the Undying ever made that claim. It is a claim men made for us, and that is how we came to be bound.

I think it was then that it dawned on me that Mum wasn't going to notice Chris was missing. She has been made so that she thinks Chris is just round the corner all the time. She doesn't realise that she never sees him. I don't know why I didn't understand earlier. If Aunt Maria can turn Chris into a wolf, she's surely strong enough to do this to Mum- except that it seems a different kind of thing, much more natural and ordinary, and I didn't really think she could do both kinds.