There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that’s a little shy and a little rum. Some kinds of night animals and people that don’t fit in with others and that nobody really believes in. They keep out of the way all the year. And then when everything’s quiet and white and the nights are long and most people are asleep—then they appear. Tove Jansson, Moominland Midwinter
How impossible it is to forget the stories we tell ourselves, even when the truth should supersede them. Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter
Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Culture, Behavior, Beauty, Books, Art, Eloquence, Power,
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist
I believe you do not deserve words like “anti-wrinkle” and “anti-aging.” Your experience as a woman is much too rich to be rewritten in favor of artificial youthfulness. Ashley Asti, Dear Sisters: Your Nature is to Bloom
Everyday Strange 