Dreams Quote by Carol Shields

“Or rather, I dreamed of her constantly, only as absence, not presence: a breeze blowing through a just-vacated house, her handwriting on a notepad,…

— Donna Tartt

“As the lights fade to a distant glow, I look back toward the city and imagine, somewhere in all of those lives, a little…

— Noriko Nakada

“And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream.”

— Marcel Proust

“Her departure was a gradual thing, like a watercolor left in the sun, every day fainter until one day the canvas was bare and…

— Catherine McKenzie

“She entered the place of her dreams along a much traveled path and returned treading very carefully in order not to shatter the tenuous…

— Isabel Allende

“Her mind was still tiptoeing along the boundary of consciousness, in that state of semi-waking that spins threads between dream and real, and for…

— Laini Taylor

“When people go away they vanish, turn to nothing, stop being. They live only in memories, haunting the imagination.”

— Dezső Kosztolányi

“A long time back, she thought, I dreamed a dream, and was enjoying it so much when someone wakened me, and that day I…

— Ray Bradbury

“Life is a backwards train. All you can see is all your leaving behind.”

— Cristy O

“I didn't understand her being gone, either. I had seen her fall. Now her part of any conversation would always be unsaid, and the…

— Gordon Dahlquist

“She only came back when she felt like it, in dreams and lies and broken-down déjà vu”

— Rainbow Rowell

“All those evenings she watched me leave her, those are the illusion. Because the truth is, I have searched worlds for her, looked for…

— Laura Thalassa