Quotes About Reality

There were as many truths - overlapping, stewed together - as there were tellers. The truth mattered less than the story's life. A story forgotten died. A story remembered not only lived, but grew.

The thing is, Todd, people don't really want freedom, no matter how much they might bleat on about it.

Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you've got to do is find a way to live there.

Honestly. Adults. How do they live in the world? (Or maybe that is how they live in the world.)

And that, the monster said, is not the truth at all.

it was like all those things became true, just for an instant the world changed, just for a second it became made of Viola's voice and it wasn't describing a thing, it was making a thing, it was making us different just by saying it.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere inbetween. Conor shook his head. "That's a terrible story. And a cheat." It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

Quién dice que no es todo lo demás lo que es un sueño?

I can't tell you what's real for you. But in return, you can't say what's real for me either. I get to choose. Not you.

But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?

You know, the way teenage guys talk about sex, you'd think all of us were having it all the time, nonstop.

Pero, ¿qué importa la distancia si sólo fuera un sueño? ¿Acaso un sueño no podría cruzar toda la ciudad andando?

So the thing to remember, the thing that's most important of all that I might say in this here telling of things is that Noise ain't truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world keeps changing, whether I want it to or not.

Mais qu'est-ce qu'un rêve, Conor O'Malley ? dit le monstre en se penchant pour rapprocher son visage de celui du garçon. Qui peut dire que ce n'est pas tout le reste qui est un rêve ?

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all. ... the thing to remember, the thing that's most important of all that I might say in this here telling of things is that Noise ain't truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all

Quien dice que no es todo lo demas lo que es un sueno

Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect. His

People see stories everywhere," Regine says. "That's what my father used to say. We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true." She glances back at Seth. "We

Ideals, my girl," she says. "Always easier to believe in than live." "But if you don't at least try to live them," Bradley says, "then there's no point in living at all.

A memory is not the thing remembered

Because who can say in the end that any one of these places is more real than any other?

Noise ain't truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.