Quote by John Green

“She was real and she was dead. And she was out there somewhere.”

— Kate Atkinson

“Perhaps in body I am not quite as real as you,” he said, then looked alive, making him once again seem real, even though…

— Suzannah Daniels

“She was no longer examining life, but being examined by it; she had become a real person.”

— E.M. Forster

“All her life, she never saw a dead person. There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“He couldn’t be dead, because he was still so alive in her mind.”

— Stephanie Perkins

“She herself did not seem quite real. She was pale and almost transparent, the victim I used for my own enjoyment in dreams.”

— Anna Kavan

“Reality revived. She frowned and gazed ahead, feeling numb still after all these months, yet unable to believe it was true, wanting to lift…

— Laura Kinsale

“What was she like?" I tell the truth. "She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms…

— Nicholas Sparks

“She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her lines. She was not real.”

— Erica Sehyun Song

“I saw her future in my body and face, and her past was alive in me.”

— Linda Hogan

“Supposedly she’d died, but here she was again–somewhat changed, but you couldn’t kill her. Not when the truest part of her hadn’t even been…

— Denis Johnson