Quotes About Perspective

I was only glad to be saved and never once thought to ask why.

I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what they read. Some bestsellers aren't exactly literary. So what? They're fun and rip-roaring, Who instituted the book police and why do we have to answer them? Grrrrr!

Believe that you can make your way. Or don't. Either way, you are right.

As I nodded and smiled and umm-hmm 'd and oh, my 'd my way down the drive, I wondered if boys had any sort of magazine that told them how to attract women and, if so, did it ever tell them to put the girls' interests first?

There is an advantage to be found in most everything that happens to you, even if it is not immediately apparent.

Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.

The worst day above ground is better than any day under it.

I think your vision gets better as you get older.

Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.

Your always look for the worst in people," said Love reproachfully. "And I always find it," Death said.

if these mortals only knew, if they had the merest understanding of the grave, and of the eternity they will spend lying in it, they would eat chocolate for breakfast, caviar for lunch, and sing arias as they slopped the pigs.

History is fiction.

Love-real love- sees with the heart, master. Not with the eyes." The Beast looked at him skeptically. "How do you know that?" "Because I'm in love with a woman who's a feather duster," said Lumiere. "That's how.

It's kind of beautiful, this scary world. I still want to go out of it as soon as possible, but when I look around and stop thinking about how insane it all is and just see it without freaking out, it's really beautiful.

That's not the question, Isabelle," he said softly. "The question is, why do you believe them?

It's a wonderful thing to read about other people's lives, but it's important to live your own life too - no matter how challenging that life may sometimes be.

An escape can become escapism before we even know it. Books are wonderful things, but you can't live in someone else's story. You have to live your own story.

Lucanos nodded [...] 'She's the girl who sees with her heart.' Aranae rolled all eight of her eyes. She chittered again, in a scolding tone this time. When she finished, she crossed two of her legs and gave Belle a dirty look. Belle shrank under her disapproving glare, 'What did she say?' she asked timidly. 'She said your heart needs glasses.

Why do you always want to read about other people's lives, Matt? Ain't your own good enough for you

Simple is the opposite of hard, easy is also the opposite of hard. But simple is not the same as easy. Not at all.

Very. I ground the lenses myself. The left gives you hindsight; the right, foresight.

when a Chinese wished you ill, he would tell you, "May you live in interesting times.

You have no idea how the story ends. You're not its author.

she knew that, like her, I saw the world as it is, not as I would have it be.