Quote by Helene Hanff

“The night is dark and full of terrors, and so are dreams.”

— George R.R. Martin

“This. I live in this place, make porridge, scrub toilets, do laundry, and for days, weeks, I am brave and I do get out…

— Ann Voskamp

“You have to understand, it's how we are here. It's like we're all asleep. We grow up, we fall asleep, and then the horrors…

— Sandra Newman

“The terror takes you. The cage is locked and the curtain drawn. Fingers dance along as blades, carving memories into your flesh that will…

— Amanda Steele

“Society's the monster? In the dark its just me and you, we can search for monsters. None will be found, only the nightmares that…

— Zachary Koukol

“So much is yet to come. Soon will be blankets and pillows, and books by the bed to make the stuff of dreams. And…

— Jim McCann

“Nightmare wakes you up.”

— Gobind Vashdev

“The stuff of nightmares is not only relegated to unconscious thoughts upon a pillow, safely beneath an eiderdown.”

— P.J. Parker

“Screw nightmares. I was waking up.”

— Kody Keplinger

“...but nightmares are dreams too.”

— Alice Feeney

“I began waking up slowly into history, from which we do not emerge as from other nightmares.”

— Martha Cooley

“In these evenings he sat by our beds weaving folktales like vivid little scarves.”

— Naomi Shihab Nye