Quotes About Reality

Sometimes your best way to deal with shit, she says, is to not hold yourself as such a precious little prize. My point being, Brandy says, is you can't escape the world, and you're not responsible for how you look, if you look beauticious or butt ugly. You're not responsible for how you feel or what you say or how you act or anything you do. It's all out of your hands, Brandy says.

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

It's a Cinderella story, only at midnight she turns back into a fugitive.

The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

That's the worst aspect of being a writer: managing plausibility.

Marla doesn't have testicular cancer. Marla doesn't have tuberculosis. She isn't dying. Okay in that brain brain-food philosophy way, we're all dying, but Marla isn't dying the way Chloe was dying.

You get a glass tank, put it where the TV used to be, and all you get is a lizard—something so stupid that every time the maid moves a rock the lizard thinks it's been relocated miles away.

That's what I tell peo­ple. My of­fi­cial ver­sion of the truth.

How could you let me love something that was going to die?

The truth is noth­ing new ev­er hap­pens.

And when they're old enough I'm going to tell my little girls that everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough, and if, you can't look that close then you don't really love them. All the while life goes around. And if you keep waiting for somebody perfect you'll never find love, because it's how much you love them is what makes them perfect.

And married peolpe always think love is the answer.

Really, there is no wrong. Not in our own minds. Our own reality. You can never set off to do the wrong thing. You can never say the wrong thing. In your own mind, you are always right. Every action you take—what you do or say or how you choose to appear—is automatically right the moment you act.

This is your life and its ending one minute at a time.

If she was going to die, Marla didn't want to know about it.

You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

A woman calls from Seaview to say her linen closet is missing. Last September, her house had six bedrooms, two linen closets. She's sure of it. Now she's only got one. She comes to open her beach house for the summer. She drives out from the city with the kids and the nanny and the dog, and here they are with all heir luggage, and their towels are gone. Disappeared. Poof. Bermuda triangulated.

The truth is, being ugly isn't the thrill you'd think, but it can be an oportunity for something better than I ever imagined. The truth is I'm sorry.

People can't concieve of a virtue in someone else that they can't coneive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weake. You're addicted to self-abuse. You're a liar. People are always ready to believe the opposite of what you tell them.

We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact," Tyler said. So don't fuck with us.

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and the glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.

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No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough.

What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.