Pattie Chamblee

“We watch together as the sky continues to transform every few seconds, an unreal canvas changing constantly in front of us. It makes me feel like a little girl again, and instead of imagining a castle in the sky, I’m living in it; truly the only thing we can see all around us is this dramatic, painted sky.”
― Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“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?”
― Alice Robb, Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey

“I think about how sometimes, no matter how convinced you are that your life will turn out a certain way, all that certainty can be washed away with a simple change in tide.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“There is a time for any fledgling artist where one’s taste exceeds one’s abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow