#dreams

...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and a young woman, and I haven't forgotten a thing. So why did we think of Mom as a mom from the very beginning? She didn't have the opportunity to pursue her dreams, and all by herself, faced everything the era dealt her, poverty and sadness, and she couldn't do anything about her very bad lot in life other than suffer through it and get beyond it and live her life to the very best of her ability, giving her body and her heart to it completely. Why did I never give a thought to Mom's dreams? ↗

— Kyung-Sook Shin

#sacrifice #dreams

John Cusack is standing over there.” I followed his incredulous gaze to where a man very like Mr. Cusack did indeed stand, smoking a cigarette as he leaned against a building. I sighed. “That’s not John Cusack. That’s Jerome.” “Seriously?” “Yup. I told you he looked like John Cusack.” “Keyword: looked. That guy doesn’t look like him. That guy is him. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#succubus-dreams #dreams

Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate. ↗

— Aberjhani

#faith #grief #hatred #healing #human-nature

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#dreams

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone. ↗

— Alan Lightman

#dreams

Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#dreams #friendship #humor #inspirational #life

No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#love #poetry #dreams

It is all we have left to us. And while it is more than I ever dared dream, it is nowhere near enough. ↗

— R.L. LaFevers

#ismae #love #dreams

Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams. ↗

— Ray Davis

#goals #patience #dreams

A dream you once were, A dream of all my realities, A dream I can no long strive for In the wake of my manly betayals ↗

— C. Elizabeth

#dreams #heartache #lost-love #reality #dreams