#dreams

His stories are good to hear at night, because we can dream about them asleep; and good in the morning, too, because then we can dream about them awake. (Cowslip) ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#dreams

I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. I’d met mine of course, but then I only knew my dad as a child knows a parent, as a sort of crude outline filled in with one or two colors. I’d never seen my father scared or cry. I’d never heard him admit to any wrongdoing. I have no idea what he dreamed of. And once I’d seen a smile pinned to one cheek and darkness to the other when my mum had yelled at him. Now he was gone, and I was left with just an impression—one of male warmth, big arms, and loud laughter. ↗

— Lloyd Jones

#fathers #dreams

You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#providence #reality #dreams

There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck. ↗

— Hubert Selby Jr.

#dreams

I look in­to the star­lit night, And beck­on to a dream Within a world of masks and faces Of all we see and seem. ↗

— L.S. Hartfield

#dreams #edgar-allen-poe #dreams

Moon In the Window I wish I could say I was the kind of child who watched the moon from her window, would turn toward it and wonder. I never wondered. I read. Dark signs that crawled toward the edge of the page. It took me years to grow a heart from paper and glue. All I had was a flashlight, bright as the moon, a white hole blazing beneath the sheets. ↗

— Dorianne Laux

#forming #moon #dreams

Dreams are a healing therapy that we give to ourselves. ↗

— Danielle Barone

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It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't. ↗

— Brett Butler

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It costs nothing to dream and everything not to ↗

— Rodney White

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