"The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where you bury them, only to have them rise to meet you in sleep. Mostly the scenes are familiar, but sometimes everything is strange, the people unknown."

-- Tim Winton

#Dream Quotes #Art Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them”
“It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.”
“It doesn't matter what people want to hear. It doesn't matter if people like you. It doesn't matter if the whole world thinks you're crazy. It doesn't matter whose heart you break. What matters is the truth.”
“Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends.”
“Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.”
“It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.”

Source : Tom Perrotta (2013). “Little Children”, p.144, Allison & Busby
“But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.”
“...Had dreams of fancy cars and limos, And all I wanted was somebody to listen to my demo.”

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