Quotes About Reality

As soon as I knew that I would be all right, I was sure that I was dead and didn't know it. I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. I waited for the moment that would snap me out of my seeming life.

while the world worlds up at us."   I

It is just possible I will say I stayed the night. And who is there that can say that I did not?

Ho esagerato ancora prima di cominciare, perché è vero: niente è mai grave quanto potrebbe essere.

E penso a quel detto che ripetono sempre tutti: la vita è dura... e poi muori. A dire il vero, non è affatto così. Questo lo dicono loro. La vita è dura: su questo hanno ragione. Ma quei giorni che dovrebbero essere la parte peggiore? Su questo si sbagliano. E' la tua vita, il resto della tua vita, la parte peggiore.

There is the world as it exists, and then, just next to it, the world one creates in order to exist. The boundaries limited only by ones imagination.

There are no miracles on Mondays.

Without stories, we'd have even more trouble recognizing what's real.

Things spoken in love always become reality.

Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei

Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.

I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.

To keep false hopes is to prolong misery.

Life's always a big fucking compromise. You don't always get what you want, no matter how smart you are, how hard you work, how good you are. That's a myth. We're all hanging in the best way we can.

I read to escape to a more interesting world, not to be locked up in a sweltering prison and find myself vicariously standing among people who are tortured beyond the limits of sanity.

I know how it is to live your life like a dream. To listen and watch, to wake up and try to understand what has already happened.

Auntie An-mei had cried before she left for China, thinking she would make her brother very rich and happy by communist standards. But when she got home, she cried to me that everyone had a palm out and she was the only one who left with an empty hand.

When the anesthesia of love wears off, you suffer the pain of consequence.

But to pretend that all was right with the world, I first had to know what was wrong.

I once thought love was supposed to be nothing but bliss. I now know it is also worry and grief, hope and trust.

Forget about love. You will receive that many times, but none of it is lasting.

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking. "I

Kwan saw what she believed. I saw what I didn't want to believe.

It felt like all the truth got whitewashed with fake happiness, she said, only it was not happy and it was worse than fake. It was dangerous