Quotes About Reality

When will I ever understand that what's astonishing about the number of men who remain faithful is not that it's so small but that there are any of them at all?

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.

You can put makeup on your face and concealer under your eyes and dye on your hair, you can shoot collagen and Botox and Restylane into your wrinkles and creases, but short of surgery, there's not a damn thing you can do about your neck. The neck is a dead giveaway. Our faces are lies and our necks are the truth. You have to cut open a redwood tree to see how old it is, but you wouldn't have to if it had a neck.

In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need

She wants to learn how to handle a gun. Well, I want George Clooney naked in my bed, but I haven't attempted kidnapping. Yet.

Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.

People tell their children there are no monsters in the world. They tell them that because they believe it, or they want the child to feel safe. But there are monsters, Luke, all the more frightening because they look like people.

Life--you have to live it as it comes.

Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway. Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn't it?

My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.

What people know, what they believe, what they accept? Those are all different matters, aren't they?

Love, even when pledged, isn't enough.

Because he's not some perfect fantasy. He's flawed and you understand that. It means you've fallen for who he is, not who you want him to be.

It's me. I always expect too much. I'm always floored when I don't get it.

Dreams were essential, creativity a must, but details, sweat, and a business plan made dreams a reality.

Love can fade and die. I've seen it. It can grow and build as well. I think when it's real and meant, it can only grow bigger and stronger.

There're twenty-four hours in every day. Isn't there enough reality in that so we can put a small portion of time aside for wishing?

a movie set, Julia, is a tiny, intimate world, divorced from reality. No, immune to it." She smiled to herself. "Fantasy, however difficult the work, is its own addiction. Which is why so many of us delude ourselves into believing we've fallen desperately in love with another character in that shiny bubble—for the length of time it takes to create a film.

No point in wishing for what you can't have. - Blair What's the point in wishing for what you can and do? - Larken

Why did I ever think being in love would be wonderful?

But love is so often full of bullshit, isn't it?" "Here's

Naquela noite, os sonhos do rapaz, os desejos do homem, seriam ambos eclipsados pela realidade da mulher

Acreditas em magia, Simon? Não estou a falar em truques de cartas, mas no tipo de coisas que se lêm nas histórias como o Harry Potter ou o Hobbit. - Se não fossem reais, porque é que haveria tantos livros, filmes e tretas assim acerca disso?

Because he's not some perfect fantasy. He's flawed and you understand that. It means you've fallen for who he is, not who you want him to be." "I