Quotes About Illusion

Amar es ponerse al cuello el nudo corredizo de la ilusión; adorar a alguien mientras pareces asfixiarte. Pero incluso el amor no correspondido, el amor fugaz, es mejor que nada.

This is a book. Only make-believe. Remember?

Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.

Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.

I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.

living in the palace of Versailles must have felt like being imprisoned in a constantly turning kaleidoscope.

A good 2,000 to 5,000 times a week, we receive images of bodies enhanced by digital manipulation. These images convey an idea of a body which does not exist in the real world.

But the truth is, home's an illusion. We try to create this place that's supposed to make us feel happy or safe, when in truth it's the people who are around us that matter. Where we are has nothing to do with it.

Deck, I slept with this guy," Tracy said. "No you didn't," he said quietly. "You slept with Michael. Who turned out to not be real. That's what you should be upset about. That your perfect man was an act." She had to smile at that. "Perfect, except for the part where he moved to Maine. That sucked." He smiled, too. "Perfection's overrated, anyway. If he was real, you'd've been bored in a month. No one to argue with.

I wanted to fall in love with you -- a number ten kind of love -- and I pretty much convinced myself that I had. But that was stupid, because love doesn't work that way. You've got to be really lucky to get a ten at first sight. but that's what I wanted with you. - Ken to Savannah.

Real or not real?

The problem is, I can't tell what's real anymore, and what's made up.

I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say. "Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.

Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest of us. They, or should I say we, are the very embodiment of hope where there is no hope. And now twenty-three of us will be killed to show how even that hope was an illusion.

Each day i wake and think at last this nightmare is over. But it never is.

In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew.

They, or should I say we, are the very embodiment of hope where there is no hope. And now twenty-three of us will be killed to show how even that hope was an illusion.

Apprehensively I ruffle the hair by my left ear. No, it wasn't an illusion. I can hear again.

the fluffy golden squirrels turn out to be carnivorous and attack in packs, and the butterfly stings bring agony if not death. But

And like a fool, I bought into it.

It was a lie but people believed it, while no one seemed to believe the truth. Whatever that was.

They were never real lovers.