Reality

"The memories: they are the reality."

"Be real! Fake and phony people never grow.." - Sivaprakash Sidhu"

"Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them."

"If you doubt your sanity, is that proof?"

"When people challenge your ideas, they help you (whether they know it or not)."

"Practicing dialogue helps you to cultivate a realness that allows you to face reality on its own terms, not just the terms you’d like it to have in order to remain in your comfort zone."

"Fiction isn't bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can function. We can't play football unless everyone believes in the same made-up rules, and we can't enjoy the benefits of markets and courts without similar make-believe stories. But the stories are just tools. They should not become our goals or yardsticks. When we forget that they are mere fiction, we lose touch with reality."

"She is her. You are not her."

"In telling a story one of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leave the reader in uncertainty whether a particular figure in the story is a human being or an automaton and to do it in such a way that his attention is not focused directly upon his uncertainty, so that he may not be led to go into the matter and clear it up immediately."

"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."

"Maybe the world isn't enough, or maybe the distinction between the world and fiction is not so clear. Fiction is made from the stuff of the world, after all, which includes dreams and wishes and fantasies and memory. And it is never really made alone, but from the material between and among us: language."

"Reality—there’s nothing but horror in that."

"Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought."

"The subconscious mind does not care about what we consciously call reality."

"Sky-bound was the mind, Earth-bound the body rests"

"It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable."

"It's the geek who gets the girl, not the jock."

"I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden."

"Enchanted islands are hard to understand,' he said. 'I've always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you can never be sure where the enchantment begins and where it ends."

"You're a shit cake with cum for whipped cream and dynamite for candles."