“The tall white guy in the Carhartt jacket lives in his mom’s basement,” he said, going on. The sandy blond man was grinning in our direction and waving. “In about five minutes he’s going to procure a guitar from somewhere.” He looked at me. “He’s going to play ‘More Than Words’ by Extreme and he’s going to do it very, very badly.”
― Part of Your World
― Part of Your World
“Exceptionally creative people may be naturally prone to vivid dreaming; high dream recall is correlated with habits and personality traits often shared by artists, such as “openness to experience,” “tolerance of ambiguity,” an inclination toward fantasy, and a tendency to daydream. People who remember their dreams every night tend to have an easier time of losing themselves in projects and are likelier to agree with statements like “I am full of ideas” and “I am interested in abstractions.”
― Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey
― Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey
“The dreamer, like the daydreamer, lacks “meta-awareness”; she is ignorant of the state she’s in and succumbs to the illusion that the fictive world is the only one. Tennyson put it well in “The Higher Pantheism”: “Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”
― Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey
― Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey
“He loved how early it got dark, how high and hot the bonfire grew, how the whole night felt cozy and spooky at once. Like he was safe here with his grandparents and his friends, but there still might be danger lurking just beyond the glow of the fire.”
― The Pumpkin Spice Café
― The Pumpkin Spice Café
“Because she makes him a better man?” “Yes and no.” I consider my words. “I think rather than her changing him, she goes on a journey with him toward that change. She’s the encourager, the cheerleader, the truth teller.” Now the words are rolling off my tongue. “She sees things in him that no one else sees, and it’s she alone who can help him see that he’s been believing a lie all this time. Because when she looks at him, she doesn’t see a failure. She sees a man who is worthy of love—a man who is good simply because he is himself.”
― Loving the Ladies' Man
― Loving the Ladies' Man
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