Dreamland Quotes

• If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moving On, Letting Go, Let It Go

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.242, Penguin

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• What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.

  Charles de Lint

  Dream, Home, Waiting

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.61, Macmillan

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• At last I have come into a dreamland.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Paris, Lasts

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1854). “Sunny memories of foreign lands”, p.158

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• She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.

  Sarah Dessen

  Self, Talking, Shells

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.33, Penguin

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• Up anchor! Up anchor!
  Set sail and away!
  The ventures of dreamland
  Are thine for a day.

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Dream, Anchors, Venture

  Silas Weir Mitchell (1914). “The Complete Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”, Library of Alexandria

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• Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Song, Book, Different

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• Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't under­stand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sleep, Wake Up, Half

  "Dreamland". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2000.

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• But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids. I didn't care if they sang to me. All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again, pulling me upward into light, to drown.

  Sarah Dessen

  Block, Sleep, Light

  "Dreamland". Book by Sarah Dessen, September 1, 2000.

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• It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.

  Sarah Dessen

  People, Sometimes, Losing Yourself

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.20, Penguin

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• Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone,
  unicorns live inside the true believer's heart.
  Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns.

  Bruce Coville

  Dream, Heart, Mean

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• This is the dream of all the world. The dream is to live in Granada. You know, work in the morning, have a one-hour in the afternoon, at night go out and have that life. You know. Go out and see your friends and eat tapa and drink red wine and be in a beautiful place.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Beautiful, Dream, Morning

  "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown", www.cnn.com. May 26, 2014.

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• Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Mother, Dream, Baby

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• Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.

  Sarah Dessen

  Swim, Drifting, Shore

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.167, Penguin

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• His are the quiet steeps of dreamland, The waters of no-more-pain; His ram's bell rings 'neath an arch of stars, "Rest, rest, and rest again.

  Walter de La Mare

  Stars, Pain, Water

  Walter De La Mare (2007). “The Listeners and Other Poems”, p.19, Wildside Press LLC

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• The country was a dreamland; and perhaps it even reminded my wife's grandfather of the night he woke up drunk in his friend's house, beside his friend's wife, everything similar but new, different, better. The United States of America was like an eternity of those first disorientating seconds of not knowing and not wanting to.

  Tod Wodicka

  Country, Night, Knowing

  Tod Wodicka (2008). “All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well”, p.87, Random House

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• After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.

  H. G. Wells

  Inspirational, Dream, Memories

  H. G. Wells (2009). “The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll”, p.71, The Floating Press

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• Everything I know, see or hear, every part of my life is transformed into dresses. They are my daydreams, but they have passed from dreamland into the world of everyday items to wear.

  Christian Dior

  Fashion, Everyday, Dresses

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• It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

  James Russell Lowell

  Poetry, Mastery, Logic

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell”

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• The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it . . . nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.

  Mark Twain

  Cheer, Eye, Rivers

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• Tomorrow we go back to normal?" "Sure," Mab said. "It'll be like none of this happened. Except I'll still be pregnant, and you'll still be making dragons, and Glenda will still be pretending that Dreamland is Cancun, and Weaver will still own the only green velvet demon in captivity. Other than that, perfectly normal." "I just meant no demons trying to kill us," Cindy said. "My baseline for normal is a lot lower than yours.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Dragons, Perfectly Normal, Trying

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• Finding a single investment that will return 20% per year for 40 years tends to happen only in dreamland. In the real world, you uncover an opportunity, and then you compare other opportunities with that. And you only invest in the most attractive opportunities. That's your opportunity cost. That's what you learn in freshman economics. The game hasn't changed at all. That's why Modern Portfolio Theory is so asinine.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, Opportunity, Years

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• When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.

  Steve Erickson

  War, Ideas, America

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• Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes adrenaline to surge, shows us the way out, down, or up, and for our trouble, cuts for us fine wide doors in previously blank walls, openings that lead to the dreamland, that lead to love and learning, that lead us back to our own real lives as knowing wildish women.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Wall, Real, Cutting

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• The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Book, Heart, Mind

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• I humbly thank the gods benign, For all the blessings that are mine... The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy. Home-bound, the drifting cloud-crafts rest Where sunset ambers all the west; Soft o'er the poppy-fields of sleep, The drowsy winds of dreamland creep. What idle things are wealth and fame Beside the treasures one could name!

  Robert Loveman

  Gratitude, Morning, Sunset

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