#dreams

People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value. ↗

— Henry Reed

#amount #ask #common #dreams #examine

The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves. ↗

— Henry Reed

#best #comment #dreams #encourage #liable

Life on the run was filled with dreams, some at night during sleep, real dreams, and some when the mind was awake but drifting. Most were terrifying, the nightmares of the shadows growing bolder and larger. Others were pleasant wishes of a rosy future, free of the past. These were rare, Patrick had learned. Life on the run was life in the past. There was no closure ↗

— John Grisham

#past #dreams

Só o que sonhamos é o que verdadeiramente somos, porque o mais, por estar realizado, pertenece ao mundo e a toda a gente ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#life #dreams

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today. ↗

— Lope de Vega

#distant #dreaming #then #tis #today

The story of his downfall is soon told; for it came, as so often happens, just when he felt unusually full of high hopes, good resolutions, and dreams of a better life. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #dreams

He grinned, a very dark and evil grin… the kind of grin that the Grinch had before he stole Christmas. ↗

— Cameo Renae

#supernatural #thriller #young-adult-fiction #dreams

I missed you,” she cried into him. Standing on top of the snow gave him an additional few inches on her and she rested her head against his chest. She could hear nothing within, just her own heartbeat echoing. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#love #romance #romantic #dreams

Yr had a region called the Fear-bog. Lactamaeon had taken her there once to see the monsters and corpses of her nightmares accumulating there from year after year of terrifying dreams. They had swum through the almost solid ground. She had said, What is that awful stench? Shame and secrecy, Bird-one, shame and secrecy, he had answered. ↗

— Joanne Greenberg

#dreams

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense. ↗

— Susanna Clarke

#magic #magicians #dreams