Quotes About Reality

But will he slay dragons for me?" Char whispered. "Slay dragons?" Sarah shook her head. "No one slays dragons anymore, my love. We just learn to live with them." Char

There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be, you just might have to settle for a little bit less.

If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?

Nothing is never nothing. It's always something.

Seeming and being are not one and the same.

But I can now understand why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's ok to feel like this. And then the lunch bell rings, the book closes, and I'm plunged back into reality.

This is my one and only life, and it is a great and terrible and short and endless thing, and none of us come out of it alive

Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart.

Alone because love was one of those feelings that you could never have control of. And she needed to be in control. She had loved before, had been loved, had tasted what it was to dream, and had felt what it was to dance on air. She had also learned what it was to cruelly land back on the earth with a thud.

That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You're both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.

You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the titles.

People come and people go and we know this happens, yet we get such a shock when it does.

She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far away, she thought that a woman of that age would be so wise and knowledgeable, so settled in her life with a husband and children and a career. She had none of those things. She still felt as clueless as she had felt when she was twenty, only with a few more gray hairs and crow's feet around her eyes.

fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies...

It's funny because when you're a child, you believe you can be anything you want to be, go wherever you want to go. There are no limits. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered. The reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be, that you just might have to settle a little bit less.

There's the person who you think you should be and there's the person who you really are. I've lost sense of both.

And while positivity is the seed of many a great thing, wishful thinking alone doesn't make a good foundation for marriage.

That is who I am supposed to be, how I am identified and recorded for all time, but I am neither of those things

The reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realisation that you can't be all you wanted to be

I've learned that there are two always two stories to one event: the public story and the truth.

I'm real. And i'm not going anywhere until you open those eyes properly and see me

I cant' believe Doris's hair is real too.' 'All but the colour. ...

The world went on, simple as that, and there was no bubble big enough to protect her.

You can run and run as fast and as far as you like but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.