Quote by Marya Hornbacher

“When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Well sir, if things are real, they're there all the time." "Are they?”

— C.S. Lewis

“These things are not real. They are phantasmagoria. They were made by dreams, and now that no one is dreaming them any longer they…

— Margaret Atwood

“She was seeing something, though. You can see that in her eyes. They are not empty, not flat at all, but filled.”

— Dawn Tripp

“But down deeper, something I'd seen as solid-- not perfect, but solid-- was suddenly crumbling. I felt like I was falling to pieces right…

— Sarah Dessen

“They are not objects. They are places, places where some little thing is about to come into being”

— Barbara Bolt

“I imagined them deathless, odorless, forever happy, strong, and interested in everything that happened to me.”

— Anita Diamant

“Actually, they’re just as real as the one you and I are experiencing at this moment.”

— Blake Crouch

“The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.”

— David Foster Wallace

“Thin, I think, that fabric between realities. Maybe minds aren't lost. Maybe they just slip through and find a different place to wander.”

— C.J. Tudor

“Empty of anything that defined it as real. That was how I felt sometimes. I existed in a world made for show, not depth,…

— Gwen Hayes

“Inside me are the real things that give me strength—my thoughts, the small stones of my own choosing. They tumble in my mind, some…

— Ally Condie