“The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. They also begin to engage with the fantasy without realizing what it really is. They seek happiness and fulfilment through the simulacra of reality, e.g. media and avoid the contact/interaction with the real world. (Note: This quote is fake and does not appear in Simulacra and Simulation. I tried to delete it, but the system doesn t allow that because this quote has too many fans lol.)”
“You think I don’t deserve him,” I say to Cardan. He smiles slowly, like the moon slipping beneath the waves of the lake. “Oh no, I think you’re perfect for each other.”
“...if the spell was off, I’d have my heart eaten before I could turn around.” “Don’t you want your heart eaten?” asked the fire. [...] “Naturally I don’t,” Sophie answered.”
“Jamal stared at the dog in his arms. Why I am I holding a dog full of angels?”
“Right, so I wake up in the morgue as me, Grace, but I’m eighteen again and I’m like wow!”
“Your role out there is to give something back, guide the way forward... Maybe, just maybe if you spent a little less time looking out for yourself and a little more time thinking about... no, scratch that, just thinking would be a start.”
“... something was not right... almost as if something were hiding amongst the paint... squeezed in between the brush strokes... a kind of presence bringing it alive...”
“He held out his hand to Sophie, just like Mrs. Pentstemmon, but a little less royally. Sophie levered herself up, wondering if she was meant to kiss this hand or not. But since she felt more like raising her stick and beating the King over the head with it, she shook the King s hand and gave a creaking little curtsy.”
“You ve cheated death many times. Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man.”
“You lost sight of what was important... and sometimes, to gain something you have to let something go.”
“Sometimes reality strays so far from what’s rational that we can only explain it through fantasy.”
“Be careful what you wish for... your wish will visit you tenfold.”
“She has a belief in herself that creates an area of safety.”
“... do your lot wake up and think hmm, what can I do to ruin the planet today?”
“The only thing that had ever done me any good in my father s house was thinking: no one had cared what I wanted, or whether I was happy. I d had to find my own way to anything I wanted. I d never been grateful for that before now, when what I wanted was my life.”
“... catching sight of the metal fused onto stripped bone, ligaments visible where the two meet as the advancing metal and flesh army stride easily across the granite steps.”
“... you of all people should know that all is not as it may appear.”