Idealized Quotes

“They had killed themselves over the failure to find a love that none of us could ever be.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out for them. (p. 56)”
― Mary E. DeMuth, The Wall Around Your Heart: How Jesus Heals You When Others Hurt You

“Over the bed hung the picture of her beloved, the Polish Rider. He was looking, with his authoritative pensive mouth and his calm wide-apart eyes, past Moy, over her left shoulder and away into some vast distance. He was a knight upon a quest. He was brave, innocent, chaste, good.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“When he's not with me I feel less than whole. But the volatility of our relationship makes me wonder how much of that is what I want him to be, as opposed to what he actually is. If the idea of him is more fulfilling than being with him.”
― Melanie A. Smith, All of Me

“In the middle of all the world's incessant noise, her message was music, and music was a thing that I'd mostly lived my life without. In the ten years since I'd last seen Miranda she'd come to somehow stand in for all the things I didn't have in life that were thought to make us human, all the absent music and touch and sympathy; in my mind she lived a separate life apart from her real one, and there she grew more pure and perfect with each passing day . . . In my mind Miranda had become a miracle.”
― dexter palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion

“The reason most women are not in touch with their own sensuality is because they don’t, many outright refuse, to view themselves as an idealized fantasy.”
― Lebo Grand