Quotes About Reality

When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to.

Lie to yourself until it's true.

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

There is no one truth. There's only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?

Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real

Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

Just so you know, when they say Once upon a time" . . . they're lying

Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.

There is no such thing as a fact. There is only how you saw the fact, in a given moment. How you reported the fact. How your brain processed that fact. There is no extrication of the storyteller from the story.

Anna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family. Instead of dropped off on the doorstep by some Bonnie and Clyde couple that ran off into the night. On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong. (Jesse)

I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.