“Not real can tell us about real.”
“They say nerves heal real slowly. Lots of things about us heal real slowly.”
“You love me. Real or not real?"I tell him, "Real.”
“The real thing that physics tell us about the universe is that it's big, rare event happens all the time — including life — and that doesn't mean it's special.”
“Never mind. Point being that you don't have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don't have to think of us as real girls, real flesh and blood, real pain, real injustice. That might be too upsetting. Just discard the sordid part. Consider us pure symbol. We're no more real than money.”
“Real life is never so neat as the stories we choose to tell about it”