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“You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.”

Book:Wealth of Words

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“Did your parents care that he was white?" "They never met him." I couldn't imagine taking him to meet my dad. Watching them talk to each other would've been tortuous. Also, I never wanted him to see how small our apartment was. In the end, I guess I really didn't want him to know me. With Daniel, it's different somehow. I want him to see all of me.”

Love Reality Understanding Genuine Love

Book:The Sun Is Also a Star

Source: The Sun Is Also a Star

“Obi-Wan Kenobi once said ‘your eyes can deceive you, don’t trust them.’ It seems to be getting harder. Distinguishing reality from the illusions people make for us, or the ones we make for ourselves. I don’t know, maybe that’s part of the plan, to make me think I’m crazy…it’s working.”

Reality Culture Postmodernism Culture Critique Boondocks

Author:Huey Freeman

“No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books, they offer hope — that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe one is saved.”

Book Reality Universe Vampires Aunt Queen Farm Anne Rice Lestat Quinn Blackwood

Book:Blackwood Farm

Source: Blackwood Farm

“The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in our governing institutions. It is akin to the view that global warming is a hoax, or that the budget can be balanced through spending cuts alone, or that contraception causes abortion, or that evolution is just another theory, on a par with the theory that the earth is six thousand years old.”

Reality Politics Evolution Abortion Global Warming Beliefs Political Parties Republicans Contraception Barack Obama Theories Budget Birtherism

Author:Hendrik Hertzberg

“We are meant to discover that we are powerful creators, if not of our entire reality, at least of our experience of reality. We aren't responsible for what each moment holds, but we are responsible for our experience of each moment because we have the power to make any moment heaven or hell.”

Moments Reality Inspirational Life

Book:What About Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment

Source: What About Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment

“Did she make you laugh? Did she love you as much as you loved her? Did she protect you and warm you and keep you from suffering? Valentine turned her eyes away from him, unable to face the empty answer in his face but not wanting to stop saying what she had thought for so long. "I saw how fascinating her mystery was to you. For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most-emptiness. A person full of life is never mysterious, on the contrary.”

Love Reality Love Lost

Book:Scruples

Source: Scruples

“for he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even the most insane, can one day materialize and see its fulfillment in space and time.”

Reality Fiction Fantasy Thought Fantastic Insanity

Author:Stefan Grabinski

“Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.”

Reality Myth

Book:The Lost Art of Gratitude

Source: The Lost Art of Gratitude

“Our relation, all round, exists--it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and it's too late to change it. We must live IN it and with it”

Life Reality Perspective

Book:The Golden Bowl

Source: The Golden Bowl

“Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure when we are facing the weirdness of an unknown reality.”

Life Reality Secret Weirdness Latent Brain Capacity Force Majeure

Author:Toba Beta

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