Quotes About Reality

Gravity comes for us all in the end.

So many hours lost wishing for things I could never have. Take me for a warning, Julia. Do not long for what you cannot have. Accept what is and thank God for it, before he sees fit to take it from you.

You are far too old for fairy tales, Miss Speedwell. Surely you know the life of royalty is not at all as we believe it to be. It is a prison—a gilded one—but a prison nonetheless.

Truth is a slippery concept. It changes shape according to who's speaking it and it never looks the same to any two people.

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood this told you that high school wasn't the actual world, that it was more like a temporary alternate reality you were forced to believe in for four years. A video game you played, where you could never get to the next level no matter how hard you tried.

It's shocking the things we call love.

But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off.

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

Maybe we all just want to feel special, even for a little while, to be fooled for a bit into feeling something besides the truth of our own ordinariness.

Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.

Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.

It was possible, maybe, to have facts in your mind that weren't facts at all. You could build a whole life's story on false assumptions. You could make truths out of untruths and untruths out of truths. Until you spoke them, really said them out loud or checked for sure, you may not have known which were which.

What is uneasy when you are awake in the daylight is terror in the dark honesty of your dreams.

I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.

Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.

We forget that just because something is honest it is not necessary the truth.

But, dear God, don't listen to me. I'm an old lady in the middle of nowhere without a real toilet.

But I didn't want to share everything yet… I needed that time alone with it first, that delicious time where you replay every moment, where you make what has happened more real and also less—it becomes fact the more you repeat it, but it becomes story, too.

We forget that just because something is honest it is not necessarily the truth.

Maybe it was better to be who he thought I was than who I thought I was.

True love, even if just in your head, can make you forget how badly things actually suck.

You've got an in-love feeling, but the relationship is damaging. When do you stop calling it love?

The truest thing about truth was that it needed to be seen no matter what it was and no matter how it came to you.