Quotes About Reality

That's the way dreams can be, son. The reality of them can sneak up on you. Doesn't mean you shouldn't follow them, though. It just means that sometimes there are things you have to give up in order to do so.

As it turned out, my perception was so much more intimidating than the reality.

This seemed to drive home the basic principle that perspective and distance affect perception.

was like a crystal bowl filled with warm kettle corn. But when you lifted it up and checked the bottom, you could see a layer of burnt, unpopped kernels. The kind that makes you flinch from the unexpected bitter taste. The kind that may cause you to chip a tooth.

I see women married to good men, shitty men, philandering men, boring men, alcoholic men and they all think there's someone different out there who would have been better for them.

They seem to think if they married their ex-boyfriend or the phantom prince, their entire lives would have turned out like a fairy tale instead of a cookbook," she said.

It's not her life that's irrelevant. What's useless is sitting around wondering what might have been, because what might have been is what is. The grass may look greener on the other side of the fence, but grass is basically grass.

no more pep talks about believing in toads, Liza said. Don't they turn into princeses when you kiss them? Bonnie said. Thats frogs, Liza Said. Entirely different species.

Very few people mate for life with the people they fall for at twelve. Doesn't mean is isn't real, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt, doesn't mean it doesn't matter, but basically, we're talking a practice swing in the big game of love.

She slid out from under his arm, and picked up his shirt from the floor. When she put it on, it failed to meet in the middle over her chest. that always worked in the movies, she thought, disgusted, and dropped it on the floor.

Real life doesn't have to suck.

The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.

Jane Austen was born before those bonds which (we are told) protected women from the truth were burst by the Brontës or elaborately untied by George Eliot.… Jane Austen may have been protected from truth: but it was precious little of truth that was protected from her." G.K. CHESTERTON

Oh," Jake said. "So, this is what you want?" "No," Kate said. "But this is what I've got.

There are lots of people who rewrite their past and, what's more, believe it themselves. Now that is odd.

don't be snowed by a handsome guy at a bookstore who quotes Cicero and Proust. They are often not the real thing. As with many fleeting pleasures--travel in their company, enjoy them every so often, and then get on with your life.

Reality is hard to see through the adrenaline rush of a new love. It's easy to project your hopes and dreams onto a relationship when it's new and exciting, but the truth is that it is only in knowing who you are at your core and staying true to yourself that you can possibly see the difference between passion and real love.

I wonder if life is still something I can make up.

We're like everyone else, I guess. We promise that something is forever, when it is really only as long as it takes for us to tire of it. When

And here's the good news: even if things don't get better, you can always make them look good on the internet.

But if, in the end, she never lived the glittering, rich-lady life of her youthful imaginings, she'd have a life that made her happy.

She'd lost her taste for fiction. Sometimes she thought it was because spending even a few hours in an imaginary world would make it too tempting for her to consider other versions of her own story, other ways it could have unfolded. A different ending, a true happily-ever-after.

First of all, it's life. You don't win.

was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning.