#dream

...It felt like they were telling each other secrets. Everything they said felt like that—whispered, tender, full of other meanings, like when you tell someone a dream or talk about your astrological signs as code for all the things you love about each other. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#astrology #code #dream #dreams #love

We only dream of things we know and people that we've seen... War and pain is all I know, it is all I can ever see. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#death #dreams #love #pain #war

Gavin, I can’t talk to you here. People will call me crazy." My imaginary friend smirked. "But you’re already talking to me." "Well, I have to stop." His smirk grew cocky. "I doubt you can resist." And he was right. There was nothing I wanted more than to give my full attention to an imagined shadow and ignore those who ignored me in the real world. I wanted to talk out loud to Gavin--to play and laugh boisterously with him. In a dream I could justify such behavior, but to succumb to hallucinations while wide awake would only prove me insane. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#imaginary-friend #longing #love #madness #richelle

Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day. ↗

— Francis Gray

#happiness #hope #inspirational #today #tomorrow

I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#sympathy #synthetic #dreams

Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky. ↗

— William Gibson

#dream-state #fading #lost #slipping-away #vulnerability

...I got to chase my dream for a while, see what it's like, but this—" He stood and swept his arms wide. "This, and my family, is worth any price. ↗

— J.L. Langley

#family #love #dreams

We chase dreams and embrace shadows. ↗

— Anatole France

#dreams

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#l-m-montgomery #motherhood #dreams

All the world seemed suddenly dream, for in what waking world would a prince deceive his own people for the benefit of a slave? ~ Ayden ↗

— Rachel Haimowitz

#rachel-haimowitz #sacrifice #dreams