Behinds Quote by Cornelia Funke

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.

— Elizabeth George Speare

“She was sent to sleep under a velvety cloak of words, richly patterned and stitched with gold, straight out of a fairy tale, while…

— Eudora Welty

“She wondered at her previous blindness; it was as if she had closed her eyelids, and then fancied it was night. No fear that…

— Mary Shelley

His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of…

— Virginia Woolf

The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking.

— Stephen King

Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight That yet shall gild with beautiful gold…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Somehow this was what was most terrifying, the way the dream just vanished, like an animal scuttling down a hole and leaving nothing behind…

— Benjamin Black

...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some…

— Toni Morrison

“But just the same, she dared not allow her mind to look up, for she sensed that the tattered images of her dreams were…

— Edward Docx

“They had been dreams borrowed from stories, dreams she had clung to because she had yet to imagine her own dreams.”

— Stephanie Garber

“Closing her eyes, she began to let herself dream. Not sleep dreaming, but dreaming of how her life might be. It was a thing…

— William Kent Krueger

She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of…

— Anonymous