„She is so naked and singular.She is the sum of yourself and your dream.Climb her like a monument, step after step.She is solid.“

— Anne Sexton

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„She is so naked and singularShe is the sum of yourself and your dream.Climb her like a monument, step after step.She is solid.As for me, I am a watercolor.I wash off.(For My Lover, Returning To His Wife)“
— Anne Sexton
„Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.“
— Bram Stoker
„she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.“
— Paulo Coelho
„Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.“
— John Keats
„A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.And yet she is spending her life, perhaps, in dreaming of accidental means of unrestrained communion.“
— Florence Nightingale
„Do not grieve for her! Who knows, but she may have found the joy she sought? Love and patience are all that make for happiness in this world; or in the world of the past or of the future; of the living or the dead. She dreamed her dream; and that is all that any of us can ask.“
— Bram Stoker