"Oh, simple thing, where have you gone?"
~ Keane (lyric from 'Somewhere Only We Know')
"For I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night"
~ Sarah Williams (abridged line from 'The Old Astronomer to His Pupil')
"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)"
~ Sylvia Plath (lines from 'Mad Girl's Love Song')
"Memory is a mirror that lies scandalously"
~ Julio Cortázar
"Ruin me. Ruin us. And I'll let you."
~ R. F. Kuang (quote from 'The Burning God')
"And how long did the sky
Make the dreamers wonder why
Only birds had wings to fly away"
~ The Paper Kites (lyrics from 'How Long')
"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost."
~ J. R. R. Tolkien (quote from 'The Fellowship of the Ring')
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream"
~ Edgar Allan Poe (lines from 'A Dream Within A Dream')