The soul is silent.
If it speaks at all
it speaks in dreams.

- Louise Gluck, "Child Crying Out"

It was a dream, one of the dreams she had almost every night. Dreams in which she saw his face so clearly that she touched it in her sleep, and next day her fingers still remembered his skin. Even when he put his arms around her, carefully, as if he wasn't sure whether he had forgotten how to hold her, she didn't move - because her hands did not ( Read more... )

"It's the dead. They bring bad dreams," Farid always said. "They whisper terrible things to you, and then lie on your breast to feel your racing heart. It makes them feel alive again!"
- Farid, Inkspell by Cornelia Funke

True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air.

- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

"Dreams are illustrations ...from the book your soul is writing about you." Marsha Norman

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. -CS Lewis

 People too weak to follow their own dreams will always find a way to discourage yours.   - via @FamousWomen

 
"...its not about saving the world, its about saving what adults, teachers, parents, the church, bosses and haters everywhere try and take from you, the magic of life. in my world, my friends, mayhem and music come before everything. these are my dreams and my happiness."

-- Christopher Gutierrez

One of the most adventurous things left is to go to bed, for no one can lay a hand on our dreams.   - E. V. Lucas

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.  Now put the foundations under them.

Henry D. Thoreau - - Walden