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“His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just another one of them”
“We had so many dreams as children. Where do they go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life? Or do we lose them, leave them behind us in the dust, for new childre...”
“We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.”
“She sleeps. And now she wakes each day a little less. And, each day, takes less and less nourishment, as if grudging the least moment of wakefulness, for, from the movement under her eyelids, and t...”
“There's no point having wishes if you don't at least try to do them”
“People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue. They also...”
“You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didnt last long enough. It ended too soon and left nothing behind.Thats how it is with d...”
“Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.”
“What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.”
“Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams.”
“when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us”
“You, he says, before the door closes all the way. I often dream of you.”
“Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.”
“I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.”
“I know how men in exile feed on dreams”
“Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.”
“Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.”
“For you, a comet, under a blue sky, leaves trail of color,For you, a star, dreams of being able to kiss you, dream to hear your voiceFor you, full moon, keep vigil for you, my girl, keep vigil for ...”
“Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day.”
“Mama said, "Dreams are different to real life but important too.”
