Kate DiCamillo Quotes

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Seeing is not always believing.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.

Things are not always as they seem.

Sometimes what we see, what's going on in front of us, isn't really what's happening.

Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.

Please remember: things are not what they seem.

I am not what you see and hear.

Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

You think the shadow is the substance.

[...] the inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race [...]

In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting young Hamlet into murderous sin? Is Juliet dead or merely sleeping? Does Lear really stand at the edge of a great cliff? Or has the Fool deceived him to save his life?

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

I always see that there's a - from a philosophical point of view - there's the appearance of things that everybody wants you to think is happening, then there's the reality underneath it.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.

Very few of us are what we seem.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.