#illusions

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#illusions #courage

That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#fish #illusions #magic #beauty

You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. ↗

— Richard Bach

#change

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones. ↗

— Norton Juster

#fantasy #fiction #humor #illusions #imaginary

In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the moment came, our lives -- and time itself -- would speed up. How were we to know that our lives had in any case begun, that some advantage had already been gained, some damage already inflicted? Also, that our release would only be into a larger holding pen, whose boundaries would be at first undiscernible. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#youth #imagination

Men," Chelsea muttered derisively... ↗

— Aprilynne Pike

#men

The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence. ↗

— Annette Simmons

#illusions #interdependence #ritual #stories #storytelling

But with me, you are never just a spring faerie. ↗

— Aprilynne Pike

#illusions #laurel #tamani #wings #spring

I'm not asking for forever," Tamani said. "Yet. I'm just asking for a moment. ↗

— Aprilynne Pike

#illusion

Tamani has generously agreed to donate his body to my research." The words were out of Laurel's mouth before she realized how bad they sounded. "I mean he's helping me. ↗

— Aprilynne Pike

#illusion