Quote by Walter Kirn

“He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.”

— William Golding

“They seemed, like himself, to be living in a world which did not want them.”

— Thomas Hardy

“They were utopian, which meant they saw imperfection everywhere they looked.”

— Michael Chabon

“clarity of vision that could only have come from being honed on the grindstone of reality.”

— Margaret Atwood

“The truth was that the sky didn’t discriminate. It covered all of them in this graceful, inexplicable splendor. No matter what they had done.”

— Laura K. Cowan

“It wasn't logical, but the better you knew someone, the more blurry they became. The accumulation of facts made them disappear.”

— Liane Moriarty

“Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the…

— George Orwell

“They weren’t perfect, but at least they could be that way together.”

— Rebecca Barrow

“i didn't know there were different lines of aliveness, and two worlds contained by each other.”

— Lynda Barry

“Like the rest of the world, they seemed to have figured out something I didn't know - where they'd come from, where they were…

— Heather King

“Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do…

— Margaret Mitchell

“I realized there were assumptions we made about people, and once we did, that was all we could see”

— Mary E. Pearson