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• There were things out there in the world, things that vampires feared, and now those things were here. She was only seconds out of a very light, fitful sleep, but she knew that the nightmares had followed her effortlessly right into the real world. The draug. They weren’t vampires; they were something else, something that moved through water, formed out of it, dragged vampires down to a slow and awful death.

  Rachel Caine

  Real, Sleep, Light

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn”, p.9, Allison & Busby

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• Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous thing they face is paper. Papers carry secrets. Papers carry death warrants. Papers like this one, this folio with its blurry eighteen year old faked missile photographs and estimates of time/survivor curves and pervasive psychosis ratios, can give you nightmares, dragging you awake screaming in the middle of the night.

  Charles Stross

  Thinking, Gun, Night

  "Toast: And Other Rusted Futures". Book by Charles Stross, 2002.

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• Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in its struggle to become free of the social level, has ignored the social level's role in keeping the biological level under control.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Intellectual, Roles

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."

  Hank Azaria

  Actors, Sign Language, British

  "The Hilarious Hank Azaria". Interview with Kathryn Hahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2014.

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• You woke in the morning with the weight of doom on your head. You lay with eyes shut wondering why you dreaded the day; was it a debt, was it a lost love? -and then you remembered the nightmare....This was no time for beauty, for love, or private future....There was no future; everyone waited, marked time, waited. For what?

  Dawn Powell

  Morning, Lost Love, Eye

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• The only thing worse than a crappy TV show which Paddy Chayevsky couldn't have conceived in his worst nightmare is two megacorps fighting over who thought of the crappy show first.

  Judd Apatow

  Fighting, Tv Shows, Two

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• You’re not the only one who’s loyal and decent, Ture. It’s why I won’t betray Darling. He wouldn’t betray me and I know it. When someone really loves you, they find a way to get to you, even in the darkest night, against all odds. Through the worst nightmares, they are there, holding your hand. They’re there to stand with you to the end. I don’t just believe that. I know it. - Zarya Starska

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Love You, Believe, Night

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• No, not like this, when I have not seen you without your skin on, when I know nothing, when I am not safe. Not you, whose name all my nightmares know.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Names, Skins, Safe

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.56, Macmillan

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• The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dream, Sleep, Challenges

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.74, New World Library

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• I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Differences, Consciousness, Findings

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• Somebody who talks about how much they're eating and counts calories is unattractive to me. And when you limit yourself in the things you eat, it affects your mood. I've seen people who are a nightmare to be around because they're not eating. That's why I always have an apple in my purse or a Luna Bar in the glove box in case I get stuck in traffic - I don't even want to be alone in the car with myself if I'm hungry!

  Nina Dobrev

  Beauty, Apples, Car

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• The giant raised his fist, and a voice cut through the dream. "Leo!" Jason was shaking his shoulder. "Hey, man, why are you hugging Nike?" Leo's eyes fluttered open. His arms were wrapped around the human-sized statue in Athena's hand. He must have been thrashing in his sleep. He clung to the victory goddess like he used to cling to his pillow when he had nightmares as a kid. (Man, that had been so embarrassing in the foster homes.) He disentangled himself and sat up, rubbing his face. "Nothing," he muttered. "we were just cuddling. Um, what's going on?

  Rick Riordan

  Dream, Nike, Sleep

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• There's this book," Jared said. "And in this book a guy said that he would rather touch someones hand if she was dead than another girl who was alive. It's creepy. I know that." He was staring off into space, as if at some private nightmare. "Nothing matters in comparison. Nobody is real but her. So it feels sometimes as if nothing else matters at all, including other people. She wouldn't like that. Other people SHOULD matter." *** So he loved Kami.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Girl, Real, Book

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• I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one?

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Thinking, Done

  Poppy Z. Brite (1997). “Exquisite Corpse”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• I don;t think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dream, Thinking, Way

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• he was the monster that stalked nightmare and they both knew it

  Nalini Singh

  Monsters

  Nalini Singh (2013). “Heart of Obsidian: A Psy-Changeling Novel”, p.10, Penguin

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• I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Dark, Reality

  "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by by Neil Gaiman, 2013.

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• If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Summer, Middle, Ifs

  Michael Morpurgo (2012). “War Horse”, p.62, Scholastic Inc.

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• Because I can't handle the nightmares. Not without you.

  Suzanne Collins

  Because I Can, Without You, Handle

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.192, Scholastic Inc.

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• I have this recurring nightmare where I'm lost in a strange forest, and my only hope is your sense of direction. Enough to give a fellow the sweats, it is.

  Gerald Morris

  Sweat, Giving, Forests

  Gerald Morris (2008). “The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Young Reinette: Monsieur, be careful! The Doctor: It's just a nightmare, Reinette, don't worry, everyone has nightmares. Even monsters under the bed have nightmares! Young Reinette: What do monsters have nightmares about? The Doctor: Me!

  Steven Moffat

  Doctors, Worry, Bed

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• I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft spot for logistical nightmares.

  Maria Semple

  Creative, Taste, Problem

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• Brenna’s eyes widened. Raising a hand, she brushed his hair gently off his forehead. “Why do I keep telling you things I swore I’d take to my grave?” The contact shot electricity through his nerves. “Because you know I’ll always be your shield against the nightmares.

  Nalini Singh

  Eye, Hair, Hands

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.867, Penguin

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• A friend told me 'I guess you gotta go through a lot of nightmares, before you finally, you know, accomplish your dreams.

  LeBron James

  Dream, Accomplish, Knows

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• Whenever we wake up from a horrible nightmare, we don't immediately scream out of happiness.It takes a while to feel so safe and so good.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Wake Up, Safe

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