Rainbow Rowell Quotes

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

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.

something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on the wall was just ink and paper and had no life of its own. at some point the cat stopped blinking, and i stopped thinking it could.

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Success has always been a great liar.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

I think truth is weirder than fiction.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

Things ain't what they used to be and never were.

Reality is a powerful solvent.

Reality has a way of intruding upon illusion.

The dumber the thing is, the more excitement I get from imagining a very complex world of truth around it.

Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.

He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

Life is never what it seems - and that’s the great thing about it