You Can Bury Stuff Under Other Stuff, You Can Hide It In Plain Sight, You Just Dont Think It Clearly

…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

I am myself still. This body is dying. I can feel it rotting all around me. How is anything that is going to die be real? How can it be truly beautiful?

The Unicorn (The Last Unicorn; Chapter 8)

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 reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.

Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett

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

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