Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.
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 CattonShe is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost
Eleanor CattonRemember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.
Eleanor Catton