#ether

Is — is any of this real?" she asked. "Are you real?" He lifted a hand to her cheek, his fingers brushing her jaw. "Even if this is a dream," he whispered, "I'm not." Isobel's eyes widened, recognizing those words as her own, the same ones she had once uttered to him. She reached for him, her arms twining around his neck, drawing him closer so his scent poured over her, that combination of incense, citrus, and dried leaves overriding the funeral funeral smell of the crowding flowers. "Don't leave," she breathed. "I'm here," he whispered. "Right here. Waiting. ↗

— Kelly Creagh

#varen-nethers #dreams

Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers. ↗

— Nick Flynn

#boston #description #ethereal #architecture

What I care about is whether or not a leader will work with America's working people, whether or not a leader cares about responsibility and honest work and whether or not a leader will fight to keep the American Dream alive. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#alive #america #american #american dream #care

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

#desire #imagination #instinct #intellect #love

Dated” in Selah’s book, being a euphemism for “had enthusiastic and frequent sex with”. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#sookie-stackhouse #dating

I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows. ↗

— Katherine Graham

#decide #democracy #flourishes #government #i

I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant. ↗

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

#know #like #meant #whether

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#together #dreams

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#all night #apart #dream #each #i

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#also #beings #dream #dreaming #human