Quotes About Perspective

And why must it always be presumed that a woman's views are based on personal considerations?

It's weird to have something that's mine-not-Ma's. Everything else is both of ours. I guess my body is mine and the ideas that happen in my head. But my cells are made out of her cells so I'm kind of hers. Also when I tell her what I'm thinking and she tells me what she's thinking, our each ideas jump into our other's head, like coloring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

So they're fake? No, no. Stories are a different kind of true.

The whole point of travel is to learn there's no such thing as normal.

It was like wanting ice cream instead of meat loaf, and being told that children in refugee camps would be grateful for the meat loaf. Yes, of course she had nothing to complain about, compared to so many people, but when had that ever stopped anyone from complaining? Happiness was a balloon that always hovered just out of arm's reach.

You and I are lucky, Nurse Power. I frowned. Lucky? To be alive and well, you mean? To be here, in the middle of this. We'll never learn more or faster.

To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life.

That's tree persons in the room now and two of us, that equals five, it's nearly full of arms and legs and chests. They're all saying till I hurt. Stop all saying at the same time.

It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Nursing was like being under a spell: you went in very young and came out older than any span of years could make you.

Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head.

A veces estaría bien volver a hacerse pequeño y a veces grande, igual que Alicia.

Please, he added. I meant to say, please. I've thought it all through. I've thought of nothing else. I haven't read a book in weeks!

I tell you frankly, Mrs. Damer, the more I see of different nations, the less sure I feel about the pre-eminence of my own.

The days of my vanity are over and heaven knows they weren't happy enough to regret

All this reverential—I'm not a saint." Ma's voice is getting loud again. "I wish people would stop treating us like we're the only ones who ever lived through something terrible. I've been finding stuff on the Internet you wouldn't believe.

When I was four I didn't know about the world, or I thought it was only stories. Then Ma told me about it for real and I thought I knowed everything. But now I'm in the world all the time, I actually don't know much, I'm always confused.

It depends on the monster, if it's a real one or not and if it's where I am.

Hotel rooms are funny things. They make everything look different. If people have to sleep with each other, sexually or platonically, they should do it in kitchens. The kitchen is the epicenter of truth in any home or building. You could never misconstrue a look or a word or a touch in the icy cool, compartmentalized presence of a fridge.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather: Understand one another.

To inculcate Catholicism in the mind of the child until it is nine years of age is to ruin it forever for any other idea

there are as many universes as there are individuals to form them through thinking.

You may be a failure at the moment – but you're a very fine failure, Darrell! You're a lot better than some people who think they're a success.

Well you needn't have any 'feelings' about mountains, said Philip. Mountains are all the same - just tops, middles and bottoms, sometimes with sheep on and sometimes without.