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“You sure you won’t get lost?” I pulled my phone out of my pocket. “GPS,” I said. “No one ever gets lost anymore.”

Book:Don't Tell a Soul

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Don't Tell a Soul

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Kirsten Miller

Kirsten Miller is a contemporary novelist born in 1973. Her works are known for their fantasy and science fiction elements, which have won her a dedicated readership. more

“When writers and psychologists believe they've illuminated reality, they are referring to something else: they transform the dark reality into a bright reality and then it's no longer reality with its real color, quality, and condition--instead they set forth a reality of their own heads that has nothing to do with the events spontaneously occurring in the spirit.”

Writing Reality Darkness Writers Illumination Brightness Psychologists

Book:Lands of Memory

Source: Lands of Memory

“the past has no existence except as it is recorded in the present. (...) we would seem forced to say that no phenomenon is a phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon. The universe does not 'exist, out there' independent of all acts of observation. Instead, it is in some strange sense a participatory universe”

Reality Past Universe Existence Observation Phenomenon

Author:John Archibald Wheeler

“She realized that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, ‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see”

Reality Truth Perception

Book:The Midnight Library

Source: The Midnight Library

“The persona is a complicated system of relations between individual consciousness and society, fittingly enough a kind of mask, designed on the one hand to make a definite impression upon others, and, on the other, to conceal the true nature of the individual.”

Reality Consciousness Society Individuality Impression Mask Persona

Book:Two Essays on Analytical Psychology

Source: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology

“The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan”

Inspirational Reality Ironic

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“Flo isn’t really a huge fan of social media. She doesn’t like how everyone pretends they have an amazing life or how they filter their faces a zillion times so they don’t even look human. It’s all false and fake”

Reality Quote Social Media The Burning Girls

Book:The Burning Girls

Source: The Burning Girls

“Elle variait ses hallucinations à son gré. Elle ne se contentait pas du passé; elle escomptait l'avenir! Elle changeait le présent selon sa volonté; elle mentait et se trompait elle-même, mais comme ses mensonges étaient ses propres oeuvres, elle les chérissait. Pour de brefs instants, elle était heureuse. Il n'y avait plus à son bonheur ces limites imposées par le réel. Tout était possible, tout était à sa portée. D'abord, la guerre était finie.”

Reality Survivor Ww2 Wartime

Book:Suite Française

Source: Suite Française

“The man with the persona is blind to the existence of inner realities, just as the other [man without a persona] is blind to the reality of the world, which for him has merely the value of an amusing or fantastic playground.”

Reality Personality Mask Persona Inner World Anima Animus Outer World

Book:Two Essays on Analytical Psychology

Source: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology

“Just because you don't care about anyone doesn't mean everyone else is like that too!”

Reality Caring Realization Caring For Others Not Caring Caring Too Much Not Caring Enough

Book:Exit Wounds

Source: Exit Wounds

“I had that fractional part of consciousness left which gave me a remote and unimportant view of reality. The world was a television set at the other end of a dark auditorium, with blurred sound and a fringe area picture.”

Reality Consciousness Travis Mcgee

Book:The Deep Blue Good-By

Source: The Deep Blue Good-By

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