Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes

Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.

There is a curious law of art... that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose its realism and take on the unnatural glittering intensity of hallucination.

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

There’s a massive glitter ball in my head and it has never stopped turning

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.

I'm still not sure I didn't hallucinate the conversation while overdosing on his pheromones.

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.

Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.

I thought I was fooling people. But it's the old thing of 'they say vodka doesn't smell'. No, not until you sweat. And you just lie and lie and you think 'I can deal with this'. And then you finally go, 'No you can't'. And then you give up.

Most people like to live in illusions.

Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

Fugazi, Fugazi. It's a wazy. It's a woozie. It's fairy dust.

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.

It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.

Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the Academy). All that is, seems, and is visible to us because we perceive it by the reflected light of semblance. Nothing else is visible.