The Unreal Is More Powerful Than The Real. Because Nothing Is As Perfect As You Can Imagine It. Because

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.

Choke; Chuck Palahniuk

You think about money in the old-fashioned way. Money is not a thing, it is not even a process. It is a kind of shared dream. We dream that a small disc of common metal is worth the price of a substantial meal. Once you wake up from that dream, you can swim in a sea of money.

Reacher Gilt, Going Postal; Terry Pratchett

The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything.

The Knife of Never Letting Go; Patrick Ness

Then yield thee, coward And live to be the show and gaze o' the time: We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are, Painted on a pole, and underwrit, 'Here may you see the tyrant.'

Macduff, Macbeth; William Shakespeare

But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hands and puts it in the world amd it never goes back again.

The Knife of Never Letting Go, Page 83-84; Patrick Ness

The Noise is a man unfiltered, and without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

The Knife of Never Letting Go; Patrick Ness