Parents Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in...

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“As someone once said, we’re in the world but not of the world, so we can be for the world.”

— C. Christopher Smith

“Show us the world's not the way we thought it was and part of us rejoices.”

— Glen Duncan

“We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity--governing and inspiring…

— Miguel Syjuco

“We don't experience the world. We experience our thoughts and think that's the world.”

— Tina Hallis

“I became convinced that to survive I would have to remake the world so that it came closer to matching its own ideals.”

— Dorothy Allison

“the world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world”

— John Green

“What was it about the world that it could not face the reality it lived?”

— Robin Oliveira

“while the world wasn’t built for humans, we were built for the world.”

— John Green

“The only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”

— C.S. Lewis

“The world does not create you. You create the world by what you choose to believe.”

— Mande Matthews

“We still run the world as if we are separate from it and not part of it.”

— Danny Scheinmann