#dream

..this is your dream. Every moment, all of it. Even when you're tired or afraid. You're braver than you realize, and you will do this, and do it well." ~ Carla Olson Gade, The Shadow Catcher's Daughter ↗

— Carla Olson Gade

#dreams

No pares, no... No pares nunca de soñar. ↗

— Dulce María

#dreams #esperanza #fe #inspiration #life

Fate had a cruel sense of humor. It had been all his fault, anyway, whatever Mick or Gillia told him. Careless preoccupation and utter stupidity. Boyhood ignorance and negligence. He was only getting what he deserved, over and over again, for the rest of his life. If only in his dreams. ↗

— V.S. Carnes

#justice #revenge #dreams

You don’t see yourself at all, do you? It seems to me that you’re good at everything you try,” said Ethan sincerely. “I had a dream I could breathe underwater,” I said flippantly, “Maybe I’ll go swim with the mermaids.” Ethan turned to look at me with shock in his eyes. “Just kidding,” I said, alarmed at his reaction ↗

— Derrolyn Anderson

#between-the-land-and-sea #derrolyn-anderson #ethan #joke #marina

When Carri died, I felt like I had lost everything, except my life, and my memories of her. Now I can’t even dream of her... ↗

— Richard Finney

#suspense #thriller #dreams

His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political. ↗

— Iain Pears

#laziness #occupation #occupied-france #politics #war

People are so cheap. Everyone wants quality, no one wants to pay for it. Here's the suburban dream-- to hire great workers who are such meek morons that they don't have the guts to ask for a living wage. ↗

— Joan Bauer

#truth #dreams

Why is man the being who won in the world of emptiness, dethroning all animal species? For he is closest to the perfection of emptiness. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#love #man #dreams

Take it to your Maker - show Him the secrets of the spirit He gave - ask Him how you are to bear the pains He appointed - kneel in His presence, and pray with faith for light in darkness, for strength in piteous weakness, for patience in extreme need. Certainly, at some hour, though perhaps not your hour, the waiting waters will stir; in some shape, though not perhaps the shape you dreamed, which your heart loved, and for which it bled, the healing herald will descend. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#dreams

Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely. ↗

— Iain Pears

#cloud-cuckoo-land #desires #dreams #futility #imagination