#dr

The boy I used to know as Thomas Merker has been erased--replaced with a personality programmed by television and commercials to act a certain way. ↗

— Brian James

#dreams

If you want to pay me back one day, that's up to you. I'm not asking for it, and I never will. The best way you can pay me back is by becoming the person you want to be. ↗

— C.R. Strahan

#payback #dreams

She would take him to faraway lands to observe foreign ways, so he could get closer to the strangeness within himself. ↗

— Fatema Mernissi

#dreams

Dreams are chequered commentary made in sleep Along the deeps of our desires, moving like riddles through a magic glade Lightly they touch the leap of hidden fires. ↗

— John Bradburn

#dreams

...It is only now that memory works both ways. Which of us dreamed it - those from the country of nights five times as warm and as cold, or those who turned away and woke? ↗

— Angele Ellis

#memory #through-the-looking-glass #dreams

‎"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart’s desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing ↗

— Mariam Kobras

#dreams #novels #poetry #publishing #writing

A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoitre the mysterious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy... ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#dreams

Anytime one tries to take fragments of one's personal mythology and make them understandable to the whole world, one reaches back to the past. It must be dreamed again. ↗

— Assotto Saint

#haitian-dyaspora #mythology #dreams

Jerrie Cobb reached down and pulled the heavy layers of arctic clothing over her navy blue linen dress. ↗

— Martha Ackmann

#dreams

Screw technicolor, red, and foreign languages. I dream in status updates. ↗

— Fierce Dolan

#dreams #foreign-language #status-updates #technicolor #dreams