Juliet Marillier Quotes

But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.

'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.

There's a Yoruba proverb which roughly translates into, 'What turns its face to one person has turned its back on the other.' It's always made me think about how deeply subjective our experience of the world can be.

When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.

What darkness to you is light to me

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

Evil to some is always good to others

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

Moral: It all depends.

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

Is 4 the same 4 for everybody? Are all sevens equal? When the convict ponders the light is it the same light that shines on you?

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

A belief may be larger than a fact.