“If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.”
— Richard Bach
[Note: I do not support Rowling whatsoever. I just find this quote relevant.]
Harry Potter: Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?
Professor Albus Dumbledore: Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
“Some stories are true that never happened.”
— Elie Wiesel
“The man of my dreams has almost faded now. The one I have created in my mind. The sort of man each woman dreams of, in the deepest and most secret reaches of her heart. I can almost see him now before me. What would I say to him if he were really here? “Forgive me. I have never known this feeling. I have lived without it all my life. Is it any wonder, then, I failed to recognise you? You, who brought it to me for the first time. Is there any way that I can tell you how my life has changed? Any way at all to let you know what sweetness you have given me? There is so much to say. I cannot find the words. Except for these: I love you.” Such would I say to him if he were really here.”
— Elise McKenna, “Somewhere In Time”
“Her heart was tender as a rose,
His love protected her heart,
As a thorn that protects the rose.”
— Luffina Lourduraj
“I didn’t really create the character of Lestat de Lioncourt. He lives and breathes in some nine different books that I wrote. But how he came to be is truly something I can’t explain. So if I write here about Lestat as if he was somebody else’s baby, there’s a reason for it. He’s been out there on his own from the start. Yes, he was based on my husband Stan – on Stan’s vigor and beauty, on Stan’s will and Stan’s courage. And my son, Christopher, has grown up to be Lestat, and that’s a puzzle that commands respect. Yet Lestat is my alter ego, lover, muse and the unabashed hero of my crippled, genderless soul. I’m in love with the guy. I prowl the world looking through his eyes from time to time. For decades, there was nothing I couldn’t express through Lestat’s voice.”
— Anne Rice
“You wanted me to be a better man. And you’ve done that. But if you want me to be a different man? I’m sorry. This is who I am. You fell in love with me because I was a man and a beast.”
— Rumplestiltskin, ABC’s “Once Upon A Time”
“I am not the monster who falls in love and is destroyed by his human feelings. I am the monster who stays true.”
— Edward Weyland, “The Vampire Tapestry”
“He spoke the language of ill-bodied angels. A chief of sins. The tongue of a devil’s muse. And I had come to collect that golden string of twilight. The one that kept me faithful. Oh for that dark slant, that disposition – laced with mysticism – how hungry I’d become.”
— Helaena C Moon
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
God topples from the sky, hell’s fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan’s men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.”
— Sylvia Plath, excerpt from “Mad Girl’s Love Song”
“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.”
— Charles Bukowski