Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.
Eleanor CattonTheatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.
Eleanor CattonLove cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.
Eleanor CattonFor although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he might have said, or might have doneโa judgment that is necessarily hampered, not only by the scope and limits of his imagination, but by the ever-changing measure of his doubt and self-esteem.
Eleanor Catton