Quotes About Reality

The characters act for reasons that they can't control and, as readers, we have to believe in their motivations, their sense of choice and in the reality of their suffering, even though, deep down, we know it's all just puppetry on the part of the writer.

One thing, however, is certain in life. No one survives it.

It is important not to turn the dead into saints. Nobody can walk in the shadow of a saint.

Sometimes the illusion of happiness could inadvertently create it.

There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life---real life---seems to exist at one remove.

All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.

I learned a long time ago, Ellie, that 'if only' is a very dangerous game indeed.

Did I imagine it all? Sometimes I think I've made what happened between Will and me so much bigger in my head. Like how can I have loved someone that much in such a short time? And all these things I think about the two of us - did we actually feel what I remember? The further we get from it, the more those six months just seem like this weird... dream.

Hay horas normales y hay horas yermas, en las que el tiempo se estanca y se desliza, donde la vida (la vida real) solo existe en otro lugar.

It was nobody's right to be happy, after all.

and every day I felt like I was living someone else's life.

Sometimes the illlusion of happiness could inadvertently create it.

All Chelsea's internet dates were gorgeous. Until she met them.

Hay horas normales y hay horas yermas, en las que el tiempo se estanca y se desliza, donde la vida (la vida real) solo existe en otro lugar. Vi

Of course we're not happy all the time. No couple is happy all the time, and if anyone tells you they are, she's bloody lying. But you know that.

But I knew very well how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was inside. I

It was deceptive, the sunshine- it promised more than it could actually deliver.

There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hour, when time stalls and slips, when life -real life- seems to exist at one remove

Did I grow up wanting to clean houses?" She raised an eyebrow, as if checking that he had seriously asked that question. "Um, no. I wanted to be a professional scuba diver. But I had Tanze

Hay horas normales y hay horas yermas, en las que el tiempo se estanca y se desliza, donde la vida (la vida rea) solo existe en otro lugar.

that counts is the truth, McCafferty," he would say, just before the beer turned his conversation to blather. "Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.

Claro que no somos felices todo el tiempo. Ninguna pareja lo es, y si alguien te dice que si, miente como un bellaco. Pero eso tú ya lo sabes.

There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, when time stalls and slips, when life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.

But then I knew better than anyone how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was really inside.