don’t blink
The way a dream, untold, vanishes, never having taken place to begin with.
Sally Rooney • Intermezzo: The global #1 bestseller from the author of Normal People
Use loneliness. Its ache creates urgency to reconnect with the world. Take that aching and use it to propel you deeper into your need for expression—to speak, to say who you are and how you care about light and rooms and lullabies.
Natalie Goldberg • Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
They dreamt and dreamt, and the stars wheeled overhead and away and the moon hid in the trees and the sun moved around the car. The car filled with impossible gadgets and stinging plants, singing stones and lacy bras. As the noon boiled down, they climbed out and stripped their sweaty shirts and dreamt in the heat instead. Things too big to be
... See moreMaggie Stiefvater • The Dream Thieves
I would often whisper, Let's dream the same dream, right after we turned out the lights. He took it as a sweet sign-off, but I yearned for this joint dream so hard my teeth hurt. He didn't understand that you could create a world—a fantasy, a nightmare—and bring other people into it, not just artistically but in life. I was pretty good at getting
... See moreMiranda July • All Fours: A Novel
They hang just above your head on invisible strings. If you’ve put in the work, they’ll stick around until they hit you square in the face. Funny, isn’t it? How we repel the things we want too much. When we surrender to the possibility of losing the object of desire, opportunity wafts them in without... See more