Quotes About Perspective

Animals obviously ranked higher in Michaela's world view than humans. Having seen some of the things humans were capable of, Elena couldn't disagree.

You're so cute when you're deluding yourself.

Those who say vengeance eats you up are wrong—it doesn't, not if you do it right.

understood who she was, understood that a small surrender didn't equal a larger one.

In our terms, you are a baby and I am robbing the cradle.

First you throw bread at my head and bow you expect me to be a movie critic- Raphael said to Elena

Damn it, Honor, what do I do with an Ancient mother-in-law who thinks I'm a bug?" One that had infested the life of Caliane's beloved son.

What is it like to be mortal?" Startled, she took a second to think, to consider. "Life is much more immediate. When you have a time limit, every moment gains an importance that an immortal will never know.

Assumptions are the enemy of coherence," Sharine said. In other words, You're an idiot.

Life isn't static, and sometimes, we don't realize the value of knowledge or even of people, until farther down the track, when we're mature enough to truly understand.

Kaleb hadn't expected anything else—if he were on the other side, he wouldn't trust himself either.

I wonder at this age we live in where information must always be at the fingertips. Why does no one value patience?" "Human lives are shorter," she reminded him quietly. "A mortal life must be lived in fast-forward.

Life isn't static, and sometimes, we don't realize the value of knowledge or even of people, until further down the track, when we're mature enough to truly understand.

That works." The tightness in her chest eased. "Kind of seems one-sided though. You're giving up everything." "I get you." A simple statement that meant more than she could ever articulate.

It's funny how really smart people have the most unusual holes in their worldview and perception.

I'm happy to be here," he thought to himself as he shined an old woman's mirror, "and I know this is better than the Great Swamp of Ink, but it isn't what I expected at all.

You folk are so finicky about time, living it in straight lines like that.

Mid-range, androgynous voice. I first thought that Solaris was a guy. Then a girl. Maybe. Then I gave up trying to figure out which. It would become obvious at some point, or not.

With time, material things—once we let go—have a way of not having the significance we've pinned to them.

My mom used to say everything happens for a reason and there's no such thing as coincidences. Serendipity, yes; coincidence, no. She always said every event was part of God's tapestry. One side—the side we see as we stumble through life—looks like a confusing mass of interwoven thread, but on the other side—the side God sees— is a radiant, gorgeous work of art.

Ever since Eve gave Adam the apple, there has been a misunderstanding between the sexes about gifts.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it And spills the upper boulders in the sun ... —Robert Frost

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

Look! A mountain there I don't climb a mountain Mountain climbs me Mountain is myself I climb on myself.