Quotes About Illusion

Alguna vez has intentado hacer realidad una fantasía sexual? No tiene gracia. Es desagradable e incómodo, o afectado. Cuando vas a hacerla realidad, no te excita. La fantasía funciona mejor mientras sigue siendo una fantasía. La dejas salir al mundo y termina pareciendo una placenta deforme y toda ensangrentada.

Los chicos nunca parecían darse cuenta de que «sus» habitaciones eran un acto de generosidad por parte del padre, que había pagado toda la casa. Legal, moral y económicamente, Shep tenía derecho a entrar en ese cuarto siempre que quisiera. Con todo, cierta vaga conciencia de que en realidad los niños no tenían territorio podría haber explicado por qué defendían con semejante fiereza su ilusión de tenerlo.

No such thing as larger-than-life, Kellogg. There's only life-size, and any magnification is just other people's bullshit.

Why would you want to sell millions of people on the illusion that they knew you, when they didn't?

I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.

Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.

By most people the 'sense of reality' is understood to be the submission to events and indeed illusion is often salvation.

Foolishly romantic, yeah, sure, maybe: but she'd rather have dreams of Prince Charming than the reality of Mr. Wrong.

She spent all her free time either drawing the strange things she saw in her dreams, or with her nose inside historical novels. The world held in the pages of history felt like the real world, and the present day an illusion she had to suffer through until she could escape back into the pages of a book.

But it's not easy, and that, I realize, is what makes the circus the circus--doing what's difficult and making it look simple. It's the presence of one thing I've never had but always needed and didn't even know I was missing. Magic. And suddenly, I'm no longer afraid.

Honestly, are there any other words in the whole damned English language quite as seductive as, 'the circus is in town'?

is envy just the illusion that the problem of happiness can be solved?

Remember What Mama used To Say : " You Cant Tell a Book By Its Cover

amazing how boring you can get away with being when you're pretty. No one seems to notice. When you're pretty everyone just assumes you must have a great life. People are so short-sighted, sometimes. People are so stupid. I have a dark past and I have dark thoughts. I do dark things and I scare myself sometimes. I wake in the middle of the night and I've twisted myself

Stories,' she says, 'are the only thing in this world that are real. Everything else is just a dream.

At thirty-two years of age, Rachel tried not to dwell too much on the fact that her entire adult existence was a mirage.

The point is … you. You're the point. I thought I knew you. I thought I knew who you were. That golden girl in the pharmacy. That girl with the lustre, the class, the elegance. The girl who'd been waiting for her prince.

Sometimes an imitation of love can be pretty damn convincing.

He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies ... He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect. Deliberately he had destroyed any illusions she might have had about him, exposing his mysterious past for the ugly horror that it was. His purpose had been to drive her away. But instead she felt closer to him, as if the truth had bonded them in a new intimacy.

I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.

Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip.

Well, there was something I once read... It was an astronomy book that said in most of the constellations, the stars don't actually belong together. They only appear to. They look to us as if they're close to each other, but some of them exist in another part of the galaxy altogether. That's how my family was. We seemed to belong to the same group, but we were all very far apart

You can ask Jack about getting into Eternal Truth." "You want Jack to go to church?" Hardy asked blankly. "Honey, he'd be struck by lightning as soon as he went in the front door." Haven grinned at him. "Compared to you, Jack is a choirboy." "Since he's your big brother," he told her kindly, "I'll let you keep your illusions.

As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.