Quotes About Perspective

But I don't care what you think, not about these things anyway. If you don't think they're real or important or you think that we'll all grow out of this nonsense, well, that's not really my business. I can't tell you what's real for you. But in return, you can't say what's real for me either. I get to choose. Not you.

Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.

Sizewise, she's always been just smaller than me. But I think of her and I feel like she's as big as the world.

But what is a dream...?...Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?

I love that you're worried,' she says, 'but you're worried about all the wrong things.

Why did everyone no longer a teenager automatically dismiss any feeling you had then? Who cared if he'd grow out of it? That didn't make it any less true in those painful and euphoric days when it was happening.

Even though it walked and talked, even though it was bigger than his house and could swallow him in one bite, the monster was still, at the end of the day, just a yew tree.

Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

Son" his father said, leaning forward. "Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

The devil tells the best stories.

His mother shakes her head. "Everyone thinks they know what's best. Everyone." And then a voice behind him says, "Sometimes you need to find out that you don't, though.

I weigh more than a mountain but less than a feather.

No one wanted to hear that people other than themselves might be complicated, that no one was ever just one thing, no history ever just one version.

I don't know," Gudmund said. "I really don't, Sethy. But we've got now, which is more than a lot of people have, right? Let the future take care of itself.

What kind of person am I when seen by you?

How can a parson be wrong-thinking but good-hearted? How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen?

Upset isn't the same as the world falling apart.

Who is to say it is not everything else that is the dream?

Are you serious? Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you've got to do is find a way to live there.

There were as many truths - overlapping, stewed together - as there were tellers. The truth mattered less than the story's life. A story forgotten died. A story remembered not only lived, but grew.

Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you've got to do is find a way to live there.

Life does not have to go how you think it will...Not even when you are very sure what is going to happen.

Don't worry about it," his father said, going back to his breakfast. "Worse things happen at sea." "What does that mean?" "It means we're going to pretend like it never happened," his father said, firmly, "because other things are going on right now.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere inbetween. Conor shook his head. "That's a terrible story. And a cheat." It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.