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“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

“For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House

“Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

“Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Book Three

“Dreams shape the world”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

“I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.”
― Neil Gaiman

“He was a creature of hope. For dreams are hopes, and echoes of hopes. And I am a creature of despair.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman #72: Chapter Three: In Which We Wake

“I keep telling you: it's the mystery that endures. Not the explanation”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman #40: The Parliament of Rooks

“For there was nothing in his eyes but the black night and the cold stars.”
― Susanna Clarke, The Sandman: Book of Dreams

“He said, "Were he only like his sister—what a difference that would make! For there never was such a sweet and gentle lady! I hear her footsteps, as she goes about the world. I hear the swish-swish-swish of her silken gown and the jingle-jangle of the silver chain about her neck. Her smile is full of comfort and her eyes are kind and happy! How I long to see her!"
"Who, sir?" asked Paramore, puzzled.
"Why, his sister, John. His sister.”
― Susanna Clarke, The Sandman: Book of Dreams

“Destruction: "Our sister (Death) defines life, just as Despair defines hope, or Desire defines hatred, or as Destiny defines freedom."

Dream: "And what I do define by this theory of yours?"

Destruction: "Reality, perhaps..”
― Neil Gaiman

“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.”
― Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“Just because something seems impossible doesn’t make it untrue,”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“It begins with absence and desire.
It begins with blood and fear.
It begins with a discovery of witches.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“As far as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“Magic is desire made real.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”
― Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats

“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”
― Charles Bukowski

“But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.”
― Katherine Howe, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“And all I loved, I loved alone.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
― Edgar Allan Poe