Quotes About Reality

Penn cautiously reached out and touched the dragon's scales. She had expected them to be hot but they were curiously cool. But he was real. He was an actual, live dragon and right in this very moment she could feel his leathery scales under her hand and the power of twin hearts beating in his chest. Penn felt something in her mind slipping – adjusting and rearranging to make room for the previously impossible. The Wintrish Girl

As the nineteenth-century philosopher Henry David Thoreau put it, "All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

Please don't tell me you believe dragons eat pretty girls for breakfast.

The man on the ceiling casts shadows of flesh, and sometimes the shadows take on lives of their own.

They where like so many of the adults around us, content to pretend that all was well....but we knew better

There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!

In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we're fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.

People aren't interested in the truth, Dafar. They're interested in what keeps them safe. They're interested in being looked after. They're interested in a tale being spun... Mighty men have moments of great despair that common people do not want to know about.

I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. "It's bullshit," he tells me, flicking through it. "There's no such thing as Atticus Finch." I shrug. "It'd be nice if there was, though.

I do keep him at the back of my mind for those times I get me hopes raised about something. So then I can slap myself into reality and remind myself of what happens when you let someone into your sacred space.

Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive.

Simple dreams are the hardest to come true.

Webb read fantasy; Jude read realism

Not just a name but a state of mind I never want to revisit, although I do keep him at the back of my mind for those times I get my hopes raised about something. So then I can slap myself into reality and remind myself of what happens when you let someone into your sacred space.

I'm in love. I don't want to be in love with Jacob Coote. I want to be in love with John Barton and have people look upon me with envy, but John doesn't make me feel like this. I'm beginning to realise that things don't turn out the way you want them to. and sometimes, when they don't, they can turn out just a little bit better.

There's no such thing as Atticus Finch.' I shrug. 'It'd be good if there was, though.

You always seem so in control." "And you don't?" He laughed, but somehow not humorously. There was a darkness in his eyes that had nothing to do with color. "I'll let you in on a secret. I'm not. Sometimes I think that this life is shit. I mean, don't you find it pathetic?

My life isn't as bad as I make out and sometimes I think it's all in my head, but I can't help it.

Josie, life is not a romance novel. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive.

just cus your cat had kittens in the oven don't make em biscuits

As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.

I know you mean well, but you have to remember that things don't always work out like they do in your storybooks.