How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
Sometimes on the sides of the roads I see things that aren't there: Mom and Dad holding each other. Balder running through the grass toward a glimmering hall. Glory switching out the bag on an IV pole. The old lady with her garden shears; she waves to me. The coyote. The road-runner. The Copenhagen Interpretation playing Hacky Sack with the Calabi Yau. Just a bunch of travelers on the same road. (48.8)
Once again, Cam is seeing a mixture of things he may be aware of from his hospital bed and the delusions that his rotting brain is presenting as reality. But to him it is all real. And that's not too shabby.
Quote #11
"So you're saying none of this is real?" I ask.
He checks his reflection in the cool steel of his blade. "I'm not saying that at all. Reality is what you make of it." (50.73-74)
This time it's the Wizard of Reckoning (who has revealed himself to be Bizarro Cameron) who is saying that reality has to do with perspective. What you consider to be real is therefore only real because you think it is. Deep stuff, right?