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A good book is a good place to go..... to dream! ↗

— Donna Lee Comer

#clean-mystery #kidnapped #thriller #dreams

After two years' absence she finally returned to chilly Europe, a trifle weary, a trifle sad, disgusted by our banal entertainments, our shrunken landscapes, our impoverished lovemaking. Her soul had remained over there, among the gigantic, poisonous flowers. She missed the mystery of old temples and the ardor of a sky blazing with fever, sensuality and death. The better to relive all these magnificent, raging memories, she became a recluse, spending entire days lying about on tiger skins, playing with those pretty Nepalese knives 'which dissipate one's dreams'. ↗

— Octave Mirbeau

#decadent #exoticism #orientalism #death

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#dance-with-dragons #epic-fantasy #fantasy #high-fantasy #melisandre

There is no animal more invincible than a woman, ↗

— Loretta Chase

#inspirational #truth #inspirational

Thoughts, pictures of him would come to me just a second after waking, shocking me from the forgetfulness of sleep, striking blows that were almost physical. And even in sleep I was not completely free. So often sleep brought dreams of him. ↗

— Bernard Taylor

#grief #grieving #loss #dreams

On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#inspirational #sleep #thought-provoking #writing #dreams

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#accounted #annoyed #dearest #free #i

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#anger #betrayal #father-and-son #love #parent-and-child

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough not to think about all the things that might go wrong. ↗

— Sarah Gilbert

#dream #writing #dreams

Now you look here. All your father ever dreamed of for you was to do something you loved in life. He didn't care about fancy qualifications or fancy clothes or cars, just that you were both happy and fulfilled. He was so excited about your dreams for a career. ↗

— Hazel Gaynor

#father #life #dreams