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Exhausted after a full day of treating patients, William Carlos Williams angrily answered the phone. “Doctor,” said a woman’s voice, “my child has swallowed a mouse.” “Then get him to swallow a cat,” he replied, and slammed down the receiver. ↗

— Ross Wetzsteon

#williamcarloswilliams #dreams

A GI dreams about a long-haired dictionary because it always opens to the same page. ↗

— Edward R. Prisk

#dreams

Dreams have never been this hot! Pleasures of the Night sizzles as a romance, enthralls as a paranormal, and captivates with a fantastic cast of characters. I didn’t want the 'night' to end! ↗

— Susan Grant

#endorsement #sylvia-day #dreams

I don’t have many friends, not the living, breathing sort at any rate. And I don’t mean that in a sad and lonely way; I’m just not the type of person who accumulates friends or enjoys crowds. I’m good with words, but not spoken kind; I’ve often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships on paper. And I suppose, in a sense, that’s what I do, for I’ve hundreds of the other sort, the friends contained within bindings, pages after glorious pages of ink, stories that unfold the same way every time but never lose their joy, that take me by the hand and lead me through doorways into worlds of great terror and rapturous delight. Exciting, worthy, reliable companions - full of wise counsel, some of them - but sadly ill-equipped to offer the use of a spare bedroom for a month or two. ↗

— Kate Morton

#distant-hours #kate-morton #terrorism

Are you a psychic if you see something happen before it happens,But the day it happens was a day before you woke up from the dream you saw it in. ↗

— dave jirles

#dreams

Thoughts swirled in my mind as I finally drifted off to sleep, my dreams full of darkness and shadows...along with the face of a dismal Illusionist. -- The Ending ↗

— Alexandra Lanc

#the-ending #dreams

Nick wouldn’t dream of going on a case without his beloved cat. After all, they had been together for over three hundred years. ↗

— Abramelin Keldor

#paranormal #dreams

Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream? ↗

— William Wordsworth

#dreams

...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated. ↗

— Ransom Riggs

#exploration #childhood

She honestly wondered sometimes which fate was worse, death or standing behind a curtain and looking out at the street at all the things you felt you could no longer have. ↗

— Elizabeth Berg

#death