“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”

“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.”

“What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?”

“...what if everything that we see, everything that seems real - what if it was not real?...What if the stuff that was real was somehow hidden?... [56]”

“She was too well acquainted with the way things work in real life. Real life sucked. But it was real. It was unapologetic. It made no excuses. It just was.”

“As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.”