Dreams Quote by Anne Carson

“Anna had read books about people in the cities going camping. They would leave their comfortable homes and beds and deliberately sleep in tents,…

— Gail Sattler

“Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can…

— Scott Turow

“... the cupboards start opening and closing by themselves, drawers slamming shut and the walls start to bleed. Slamming doors and smashing plates. Anna…

— Kendare Blake

“Anna directed the silent, compassionate thought towards her daughter: Well my poor girl, you’d better get used to it early, because you’re going to…

— Doris Lessing

“Poverty smothers our dreams even before we have finished dreaming them.”

— Rafik Schami

“I could tell from Anna's face that she had already told him about dancing in Saint Petersburg and that the memory weighed on her…

— Colum McCann

“Anna's eyes soften, and the stubborn tears begin to recede. The way she stands, the way she breathes, I know she wants to come…

— Kendare Blake

“Anna’s one of those people who get fired up about injustices in the world; quick to quiver with rage because other people don’t ignite…

— Kirsty Eagar

“Ask her. Why. She is starving. Meeee!”

— Elizabeth May

“Ingrid shrugged...like Marie Antoinette hearing about the starving peasants.”

— Peter Abrahams

“How starved you must have been that my heart became a meal for your ego.”

— Amanda Torroni

“The stinting poverty in which they lived was unbearable; it was destroying them. It did not mean that there was not enough to eat:…

— Doris Lessing