Quotes About Perspective

The last editorial meeting I had was with a 24 year-old Vassar grad who tried to explain to me (after I had been selling novels longer than she had been alive) how to write a book. I kept my cool and was nice to the human, but as Kris and I walked down the sidewalk after that meeting, I remember my only words were 'I'm done with this shit.

The kaleidoscope remains the most efficacious instrument for those of us who've been shattered. There's so much I can't explain if someone would just give me the chance...

Was he a good father?" To their surprise, I shake my head and smile. "No," I reply candidly. "He wasn't a good father, but he was a good man." Where Dad came from, that meant a great deal more.

Mrs. Clutterthorpe, I can hardly think of any fate worse than becoming the mother of six. Unless perhaps it were plague, and even then I am persuaded a few disfiguring buboes and possible death would be preferable to motherhood.

I have faith that men can be as reasonable and logical as women if they but try.

Those are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives.

You men have been forcing us to change our names for the last four thousand years. Why don't we switch it up? You lot can take our names for the next few millennia and see how you like it.

You have large opinions for so small a person.

Have you ever looked a starving beggar in the eye and thought that the privileges you enjoy are nothing more than a whim of the cosmos?

Mrs. Clutterthorpe, I can hardly think of any fate worse than becoming the mother of six ... unless perhaps it were plague.

People have died for less. I know; I was there.

Verá, doctor, los aristócratas somos como los funámbulos. No nos damos cuenta de lo que hay debajo de nosotros.-Julia Grey

Children know nothing beyond the upbringing they have. It is only adults who regret what they lacked.

Six-year-olds can't be assholes," Mary Alice says. "The fact that you think they can says a lot." "Yeah, it says that you've clearly never met a six-year-old.

have faith that men can be as reasonable and logical as women if they but try.

Deanna Raybourn

There is always a pony,

roses. Do not tell me you couldn't travel with as little. I have faith that men can be as reasonable and logical as women if they but try.

That is the hallmark of a good partnership, you know—when one partner sees the forest and the other studies the trees.

Truth is a slippery concept. It changes shape according to who's speaking it and it never looks the same to any two people.

Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I've always thought--put together all those random pieces form everyone who's ever known you from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you'd probably see a fuller version of your life than you even did while living it.

We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.