If We Had A Keen Vision And Feeling Of All Ordinary Human Life, Other Would Be Like Hearing The Grass

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, other would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart bear, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

Middlemarch; George Eliot

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 can bury stuff under other stuff, you can hide it in plain sight, you just don’t think it clearly or you convince yerself the opposite of what yer hiding is true and then who’s going to be able to pick out from the flood what’s real water and what’s not going to get you wet? Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.

The Knife of Never Letting Go; Patrick Ness

Mook: This is police brutality! Detritus: No, dis is just police shouting! If you wanna try brutality it ok by me!

Feet of Clay; Terry Pratchett

For the first time she saw its eyes. They were red, and mad as hell. Anything with eyes like that could kill anything it wanted, because madness, true madness, can drive a fist through a plank.

Men at Arms; Terry Pratchett

The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules.

The Joker, The Dark Knight