Perspective Shift Quotes

“Humans are stars in their own right, Mizuki. Every one of them.”
― Mai Mochizuki, The Full Moon Coffee Shop

“I want the best for him, and he seems to disappear into his darkness, like he's hiding in a place where he doesn't want my light."
"Then why not offer him your darkness?”
― Rick Riordan, The Sun and the Star

“I'm not saying they're gods or anything of the kind. It's that we don't know how their minds work. We can't judge them by ourselves.”
― Elizabeth Marie Pope, The Perilous Gard

“Here's the crazy thing about light. It can be flat and dull, casting nothing into shadow and throwing little into relief. Everything is illuminated exactly the same; nothing to entice or call you forward. Any photographer knows that you can take a million technically perfect photos in light like that—perfect but lacking magic.

But all it takes is one tiny, almost imperceptible shift, and suddenly everything dances and turns into prisms of color and lines that beckon and move and sing. You don’t have to travel an inch. No doing or undoing. Just the slightest shift (of position, of perspective, of power) and everything is transformed.

Light like that asks us to remember that it’s all magic, one way or another, isn’t it? We just have to be willing to spin until we catch it, hold it as long as it wishes to be held, and then release and watch it dance away. And then we shift and shift and shift again. We can’t hold anything, not really, only learn to dance with it while it is ours to have and know.

But there is one thing I know in this life, I’ll never stop chasing the shift. I’ll never stop looking for new ways to see. I’ll never stop seeking the light.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc