Dream Quotes - Page 36

• Shrugging out of the damaged shirt, Jake said roughly, “I still dream about you.” “I have nightmares about you.” I dragged my T-shirt over my head, threw it aside.

  Josh Lanyon

  Jake, Nightmare, T Shirt

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• Sometimes I feel as though there are two me's, one coasting directly on top of the other: the superficial me, who nods when she's supposed to nod and says what she's supposed to say, and some other, deeper part, the part that worries and dreams... Most of the time they move along in sync and I hardly notice the split, but sometimes it feels as though I'm two whole different people and I could rip apart at any second.

  Lauren Oliver

  Rip, Moving, Two

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Book, Character, Towns

  Fernando Pessoa, Iain Watson (1991). “The book of disquiet: a selection”, Quartet Encounters

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• When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Witty, Clever, Real

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.69, Penguin UK

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• A verse came to mind, one that has comforted Kari before. It was the shortest verse in the Bible: Jesus wept. If he cried over Jerusalem, if he cried over the death of Lazarus, surely he was crying now over the death of her dreams, the death of her marriage.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Jesus, Mind, Jerusalem

  Karen Kingsbury, Gary Smalley (2010). “Redemption”, p.68, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved eating porridge, apparently foretold a gruesome and early death), he was feeling much less sympathetic toward her.

  J. K. Rowling

  Voice, Feelings, Eating

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• When something terrible happens, a lifetime of small events and unremarkable decisions, of unresolved anger, and unexplored fears begins to play itself out in ways you least expect. You've been going along from one day to the next, not realizing that all those disparate words and gestures were adding up to something, a conclusion, you didn't anticipate. And later, when you begin to retrace your steps you see that you will need to reach back further than you could have imagined, beyond words and thoughts and even dreams, perhaps to make sense of what happened.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Play, Decision, One Day

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• Dreams change, yes, that makes sense, but I didn't know dreams could hide inside a person.

  Jandy Nelson

  Make Sense, Persons, Knows

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.120, Penguin

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• I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Fall, Waste, Falling Asleep

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• I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Here I Am, Names, Two

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• Yet we met; and fate bound us together at the alter,and I never spoke of passion nor thought of love. She, however shunned society, and, attaching herself to me alone rendered me happy. It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Passion, Fate, Together

  Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer, Maureen Cobb Mabbott (2000). “Tales and Sketches: 1831-1842”, p.229, University of Illinois Press

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• I'd dressed up and hoped and I was so tired of doing that, so tired of dreaming and being unable to stop it despite the fact that I'd seen, maybe better than anyone here, what dreams could do to you.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Tired, Facts, Dressed Up

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “Perfect You”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity.

  Steig Larsson

  Charity, Capitalist, Involved

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• I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their souls, I steal into their hearts, I scrutinize their most fundamental beliefs, I scan their irrational impulses, their unspeakable emotions, I sleep in their lungs during the summer and their muscles during the winter, and all of this I do without the least effort, without intending to, without asking or seeking it out, without constraints, driven only by love and devotion.

  Roberto Bolano

  Summer, Sleep, Heart

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• We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep, Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away; It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free. Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sleep, Men, Yesterday

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1701, Delphi Classics

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• My dream is to find a guy who'll love me despite my flaws and won't turn away from me when a perfect girl walks by. Maybe a boy like that doesn't even exist.

  Simone Elkeles

  Girl, Boys, Perfect

  Simone Elkeles (2013). “Leaving Paradise”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• You must not look in that mirror at your doughy legs and flat feet, for today is about dreams and illusions, and unfiltered natural daylight is the enemy of dreams.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Mirrors, Feet

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.77, Hachette UK

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• there is no fun than helping to make someone's dreams come true Especially when that person is ayoung person and who really want it and really dserve it

  Oprah Winfrey

  Fun, Want, Helping

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• Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.

  Neil Gaiman

  Football, Father, Team

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 19, 2001.

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• Don't tell us about dreams – dream dinners aren't any good and we can't share them.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dinner, Share

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.177, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Cost, Fiction

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• In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Country, Lying, Reality

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.244, Pan Macmillan

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• That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams. The girls of 1929.

  Anna Godbersen

  Girl, Eye, Cities

  Anna Godbersen (2010). “Bright Young Things”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Wish, Rambling, Midnight

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.137, Macmillan

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• No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Letting Go, Kids, Childhood

  Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse: A Novel”, p.193, Vintage

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