Quotes About Illusion

We are never the people we think we are. We are the ones we pretend, with all our hearts we can't become.

We don't know what reality is," Rayanne says. "We just pretend we do, because it makes us feel like we're in control.

Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.

But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

Security was a mirage; being tied down hardly counted when the other end of the rope had unraveled.

Eli had learned long ago that you can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface.

It's amazing what you can convince yourself of, if you buy into the lie.

What we could not see clearly, we didn't have to pretend to understand.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

The brain can do a lot of things, Olive said, but it can't distinguish between what's really happening and what you're imagining. That's why scary movies scare you and why you cry at Nicholas Sparks books.

The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.

Sometimes we see what we want to, instead of what's in front of us. And sometimes, we don't see clearly at all.

the quiet break of soul that comes when you realize that what looked like a rainbow was actually only a trick of the light.

could not be blamed just because no one ever mentioned that once you closed the storybook, Cinderella still had to do laundry and clean the toilet and take care of the crown prince.

We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

It was hard to separate the fact from the fiction...

I used to wonder about the fake pictures that came in frames you buy at the store—ladies with smooth brown hair and show-me smiles, grapefruit-headed babies on their sibling's knees—people who in real life probably were strangers brought together by a talent scout to be a phony family. Maybe it's not so different from real photos, after all.

love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow – beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.

People are never who they seem to be

Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow -- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.

You can put a pig in a ball gown, Minka. That doesn't make it a debutante.

Saugumas-tik miražas; vargu ar turi reikšm?s, kad esi pririštas, jei kitas lyno galas atsirišo.

Things don't always look as they seem. Make of it what you will.

You can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface.