Quotes About Reality

Don't get starry-eyed about somebody you can't have, especially if it blinds you to somebody who's really important.

I have moments like that alot, when my brain falls asleep or something, and the next thing I know I've missed something, as if a puzzle piece fell out of the universe and left me staring at the blank place behind it.

It is a costly thing, looking on the true face of Love.

How do you tell a dream from a nightmare? If it involves a book burning , it's probably a nightmare.

But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didn't need the Mist to warp their perceptions.

Monsters,' her dad said, a tear tracing his cheek. 'I live in a world of monsters.

The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.

She had to face the fact that she couldn't protect everyone she loved. She couldn't solve every problem.

Did they live happily ever after? HAHAHAHAHA. No.

people saw what they wanted to see. They didn't need the Mist to warp their perceptions.

Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth

Bianca di Angelo shivered. That explains Nico, you remember last summer, those guys who tried to attack us in the alley in DC? And that bus driver, Nico said. The one with the ram's horns. I *told* you that was real.

I started to dream, which was weird not only because I was dead, but because I never dream. People have tried to argue with me about that. They say everybody dreams and I just don't remember mine. But, I'm telling you, I always slept like the dead. Until I was dead. Then I dreamed like a normal person.

Of course, most mortals can't see magic clearly, so I'm not sure what they thought they saw as we passed overhead. No doubt it caused many of them to adjust their medication.

Never underestimate the power of thousands of human minds all believing the same thing. They can remake reality. Sometimes for the better, sometimes not. - Apollo

The afterlife looks different to every soul, he said, depending on whatthey believe. For that guy, Egypt must've made a strong impression when he was young , maybe. And if someone doesn't believe in any afterlife? i asked. Walt gave me a sad look. Then that's what they experience.

I do not know how much they see through the Mist. I doubt it would matter to them if they knew the truth. Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.

He had accepted that death meant death, the way Piper McLean had accepted that Oklahoma meant Oklahoma.

It was useless to whine and moan about what you could've had- what you deserved, what was fair. I was just happy to have this moment.

I concentrated hard and snapped my fingers. You don't see the sword, I told the girl. It's just a ballpoint pen. She blinked. Um . . . no. It's a sword, weirdo.

The older you are, the harder it is to accept that the world might not be the way you thought it was.

Even if she were going crazy, she didn't want to look like she was going crazy.

Besides, your a cat.Its your nature to think your the center of the universe. She stared at him blankly. But I am the center of the universe.

The real world is where the monsters are. That's where you learn whether you're any good or not.