#in

There was no closing my eyes and sliding back into that blissful dream of normal. This was my normal now. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#dramatic #kelley-armstrong #the-awakening #dreams

Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#living #dreams

we write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. we plant purple prose in our gardens and snip the adverbs only to thread them in our hair. we write with no guarantees, no certainties, no promises of what might come and we do it anyway. this is who we are. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#writing-philosophy #writing-process #dreams

Those swords are mine! Touch them and I’ll use ‘em to slice off your nut sack! For a coin purse! ↗

— Kresley Cole

#dreams

Lose your dream, you lose your mind. ↗

— The Rolling Stones

#rolling-stones #ruby-tuesday #song-lyrics #songs #dreams

wear your heart on your skin in this life ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#tattooing #tattoos #dreams

Segregation shaped me; education liberated me. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#inspirational #learning #race #education

He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again. ↗

— Chelsie Shakespeare

#desire #dreams #love #meant-to-be #past-lives

Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#dreams

He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him. ↗

— Lisa See

#love #dreams