“Finally I understood that whenever people heard something unusual, they called it a dream.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“You know when you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”— Dr. Seuss, iheartintelligence.com
“When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”— Paul Auster, amazon.com
“Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at is worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Every man is a suffering-machine and a happiness- machine combined. The two functions work together harmoniously, with a fine and delicate precision, on the give-and-take principle.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Nothing exists; all is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space—and you!”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“You are not you--you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought. I myself have no existence; I am but a dream--your dream, a creature of your imagination.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is es…”— Nora Ephron, amazon.com
“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“Dementia, in a weird and somehow paralleled way, is a huge metaphor for life. The cryptic lessons that dementia taught you bring you back to the most basic building blocks of humanity. Life is messy and hard and nonsensical, but love is the only thing that makes sense of it all.”— Sarah Scheidt, thoughtcatalog.com