Quotes of: Real-ones Keyword

When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is how all of us writers give away the days and years and decades of our lives in exchange for stacks of paper with scratches and squ...

Drood

Being the reader of a dark fairy tale is much like being the hero of one. Our lives are filled with pain, boredom, and fear. We want to venture into the dark wood, to see the oddities and the beauties it holds, and to test ourselves against them. So ...

The Grimm Conclusion

This person has hoped and dreamed and now it is really happening and this person can hardly believe it. But believing is not an issue here, the time for faith and fantasy is over, it is really really happening. It involves stepping forward and bowing...

No One Belongs Here More Than You

Thomas Wolfe warned in the title of America’s great novel that ‘You Can’t Go Home Again.’ I enjoyed the book but I never agreed with the title. I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the f...

Letter to My Daughter

You expect me to believe you're a witch? A broom riding, cauldron stirring, poison apple witch? Witches are Fae, Angelina," Dasan mocked. "No, you creeper, witches are not Fae. Maybe some are, but there are mortals who practice witchcraft, and I'm on...

The Sacred Oath: Book One of The Guardians Series

Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.

Classical Myth

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

A Clockwork Orange

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

The Drowned Cities

Are you afraid of the dark?” I asked. “No. Monsters aren't real. This is real. I'm scared of what could happen when the lights go out.

Exodus in Confluence

I guess it’s always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.

Emerald City

Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fiction.

Em memória

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.

Earthly Powers

Most women are more into real estate than sex. They want to own you.

Eating Naked: Stories

In real life, you don't get a reset, and you don't get extra lives, and I got the crap pounded out of me.

Fall of Night

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

The Fault in Our Stars

It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.

Gone Girl

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

To choose not to choose is still a choice for which you alone are responsible.

How to Be an Existentialist: or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and Stop Making Excuses

Hey show some respect. They’re real people with names. Carla and Krissy” He frowned. “Or was it Missy?

Bloodlines

Life without Ethan was something worse than a nightmare. It was real. So real that I refused to believe it.

Beautiful Redemption

I guess the sky in real life isn’t actually perfect. Maybe that’s what makes it so perfect.

Beautiful Redemption