Quotes About Illusion

Nevermore is more than an illusion child. It is very real.

So this is it ? what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.

And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.

I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.

Hindsight creates the illusion that your life has led you inevitably to the present moment.

And it struck him that this was New York: a place that glittered from a distance even when you reached it.

Maintaining an appearance mattered as much—more—than what was underneath. The deeper things could come and go, but what broke the surface would be lodged in everyone's memory.

The old pictures were no help; like all good pictures, they hid the truth.

You said you were a fairy princess You said you were a shooting star You said we'd go to Bora Bora Now look at where the fuck we are

There are times when I think it's impossible to know another soul. I don't know, maybe we're lucky that way. If we knew what really went on inside other people's private hearts it would make our eyeballs bleed.

To Mike—to most people who have ever known her—Kath Conlon has disappeared completely. It is an addict's trick, this vanishing act, this dizzying plunge through a dim portal into a dark and beguiling parallel world.

At a bar addiction is normalized, made to seem a regular part of living: the warm light and familiar faces, friendship or the illusion of it. Addicts are lonely creatures.

I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don't pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters.

That's the funny thing about trying to escape. You never really can. Maybe temporarily, but not completely.

We aren't normal. This place isn't normal, and you're not a player, kid. You're the glass ballerina—or the knife.

Sometimes make-believe is just another word for rare.

Sometimes you have an idea of a person — about who they are, about what you'd be like together. But sometimes that's all that it is: an idea. And for so long, I have been afraid that I loved the idea of Emily more than I will ever be capable of loving anyone real." He looked at me like the act of soing so was painful and sweet. "It was never just the idea of you, Avery.

Our minds have a way of tricking us into thinking we have two options when there are really seven.

He'd acted like he wasn't even wet.

I told you, kid," Nash said beside me. "You're not a player. You're the glass ballerina—or the knife.

he answer to your first riddle," I told him. "If yes is no and once is never, then the number of sides a triangle has… is… two." I drew out my reply, not bothering to explain how I'd arrived at my answer

I'd been wrong about his eyes. They weren't pools. They were ice.

Sometimes, you have an idea of a person - about who they are, about what you'd be like together. But sometimes that's all it is: an idea.

Phoebe realized how very wrong she'd been about this house, this family. It was far darker, more dangerous than the places she'd grown up in. In the dingy little apartments her mother rented, everything was out in the open. Their lives were dirty and squalid, but they didn't pretend to be anything else. Here, things seemed so normal, so perfect, but it was all a deception.