Dreams Quote by Martin Appleby

“The night air moved up towards the Downs, washing over sea and orchard. I breathed it in, and thought that henceforth, loneliness would smell…

— Laurie R. King

“Sometimes I felt the whole world was converging on this little room. And as I became more intoxicated and frustrated I'd throw open the…

— Hanif Kureishi

“It was one of those summers you’re nostalgic for even before it passes. Pale, bled skies. Thunderstorms in the night. Sour-smelling dawns. It brought…

— Kevin Barry

“For a split second today I could smell home. It smelled like sunset on a dirt road. I thought my heart was going to…

— Damien Echols

“I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each…

— Joseph Conrad

“I loved this time of night, how everything softened and lost the hard edges of day, and how, if the wind moved just right,…

— Beth Hoffman

“I took a walk on the cool sand dunes, brittle grass overgrown, and above me, in the night sky, above me, I saw. Bitter…

— Joseph Fink

“When you visualized the future and conjured up a world where urban life had spread everywhere and man had achieved his long-desired symbiosis with…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“I began to watch places with an interest so exact it might have been memory. There was that street corner, with the small newsagent…

— Eavan Boland

“I remember my favorite nights were just getting drunk and walking around outside the East Village kicking over garbage cans. Just the night. Just…

— Legs McNeil

“My friends stood on the ground two feet below me, and miles away from understanding why I would want to sleep on a trailer…

— Dee Williams

“In the meantime, the place became dilapidated, the wind whistled through the cracked walls, the rain fell through the broken roof, the weeds choked…

— Charles Dickens