Quotes about Reality

The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.

It was easy to lie to people who still believed in the truth.

As for me, sleep was a country I no longer visited, despite my incantation. When I did, I wished for my waking life, the hours when I didn't see the nightmare images of all that had happened and all I had become.

Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.

Love wasn't rational; there was no proof that it even existed outside of people's imaginings.

You think terrible things can't happen because they've never happened to you, but they're out there, all the time, every day. They happen to someone.

Eddie had come to understand that what a man saw and what actually existed in the natural world often were contradictory. The human eye was not capable of true sight, for it was constrained by its own humanness, clouded by regret, and opinion, and faith.

I could tell people anything I wanted to and whatever I told them, that would be the truth as far as they were concerned. Whoever I said I was, well, then that's who I'd be.

The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day.