Quotes About Perspective

Oh, Topher," Veronica said with even less patience than before. "Only a man would think that regrets were a liability.

regret is just misplaced nostalgia. That you can look back fondly or even wistfully on pieces of your life and hound yourself with endless what-ifs, but nothing will change. The present will still be the present. The future will still unfold as it's meant to.

They occupied a space in her life, but they didn't take up space, which were two very different things.

She's found, after all, that if you force yourself not to think of things, they lose their power; they shift from reality to mirage, from true to almost imaginary. And

I knew that none of us are made any promises, none of us are ordained to be here forever, or even for as long as we want to believe. This is what nearly being robbed of time does to you: it leaves you glancing over both shoulders, wondering when it will catch up to you, wondering when its pace will quicken so you can no longer outrun it.

The rest of them never considered time, how it moves both so quickly and so slowly that it's always just beyond your grasp.

Sometimes—many times—both in life and in marriage, you hope for the sunset overlooking the ocean off a deserted beach in the Mayan Riviera, but what you get is a drive to physical therapy. That's okay. Maybe it's actually how it should be.

Insane means fewer cameras!

I never knew there were this many stars." "I can't see them," he told me. "I just see you." "That's one of your cheesier lines," I told him. "It's the altitude," he told me. "I don't have enough oxygen in my brain." "I see.

You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes

Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short.

You should stop and listen to yourselves sometimes. 'We're practically adults, let us run wild.' 'We're only kids, leave us alone.'... You can't have it both ways.

I'm not an idiot! I'm just twelve. I'm a twelve-year-old girl and neither of those facts are my fault.

He's a boy, Kat. I hate to break it to you, but we are fundamentally different.

to know a piece of grass, you've got to see the ground that grew it. Maybe that's why I remember every detail of that night, every inch of ground we covered, as I followed Zach to the place that had made him, seeing them both with fresh eyes.

You never know how you're going to react to something. To anything. Tragedy, joy, heartache. They affect us all in different ways in different times and different places.

Alexei has known me for most of my life. And he still sees me as a child. But t could be worse,I realize. He could see what I turned into.

You were the only one who looked at me and didn't see her

But Logan had to laugh when he realized that he was the maiden in this scenario. And he didn't care one bit.

My parents think so. And my parents have a very annoying habit of being right

It's simple: just give the eyes something new to look at so that the mind doesn't truly see.

Beyond the wall, the sea stretches out, dark and vast, and I know why – once upon a time – it would have been easy to think the world was flat.

You think you're cute," she told him. "You think you're gorgeous. But I'm the one guy here who knows better.

I seem to be at a disadvantage," she told him. "Don't feel bad." He grinned. "Most people are.