Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.
She hates everything that is not what she longs for.
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
You can't believe everything you read in a newspaper or everything that's coming out of the president's mouth. And you can't believe when someone posts a picture from their personal life, because most of the time, it's staged - we're showing each other these idealized versions of ourselves so that we seem better and other people will feel worse.
My father, to me, was 10 feet tall.
It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.
Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.
Barbie is just a doll.
Young people are fascinated with the idea of love, maybe because they haven't experienced it. The older you get, the more jaded you become with this, like, mystical love thing. It's not as exciting because it's not unknown.
The kind of hero worship you have, when a parent is lost early and you don't know all their faults and misgivings, is a very strong influence.
No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language.
Not as she is, but as she fills his dream
I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp...Then I'd find another one.
We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them God. We only thus create an ideal figure, a purified, ennobled, 'magnified' Man.
The thing with drama is you're allowed to invent people who are maybe slightly better than real people.
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.
... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.
My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.
We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images.
It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the retouching. You can delve into that fantasy world and play with it, but when you walk away, that's not you.
