“I’m not totally mad at you. I’m just sad. You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you”— John Updike, amazon.com
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced — Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.”— John Keats, en.wikiquote.org
“People who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.”— Gertrude Stein, en.wikiquote.org
“Consciousness is unquantifiable, a ghost in the machine, barely considered real at all, though in a sense this flickering mosaic of awareness is the only true reality that we can ever know.”— Alan Moore, en.wikiquote.org
“I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment—we are all defined by something we can’t change.”— Simon Van Booy, amazon.com
“Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.”— Magdalena Abakanowicz, lc.edu
“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”— Patrick Rothfuss, amazon.com
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.”— Alan Keightley, goodreads.com
“Kisses are like tears, the only real ones are the ones you can’t hold back.”— Pamela Ann, amazon.com
“There are people that somehow become stars whether the world loves them or not.”— Dave Grohl, spin.com
“The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com
“Through Chance, we are each a ghost to all the others, and our only reality; through Chance, the huge hinge of the world, and a grain of dust; the stone that starts an avalanche, the pebble whose concentric circles widen across the seas.”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com
“We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com