Alexandra Bracken Quotes

I had to grow up fast because we know it's not all fairy tales out there; it's full of rubbish.

I do believe that reality is dreadful and that you are forced to choose it in the end or go crazy, but that it kills you.

There comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful!

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die.

Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.

You can have too much reality.

If I had children, as soon as I have them, I'm teaching them everything I know. I don't want to feed you fairytales. Fairytales are nice. But they come to an end, and then you have to face reality.

You have to live in reality: not in what might happen but what is happening.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.

Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is mind-numbing, spine-chilling reality!

Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.

Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact.

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

What you can't run away from, you have to face