#mare

Mary awoke from her nightmare with a pounding heart, convinced that she had only imagined Elizabeth's cruel plot. A full moon was shining into her chamber, illuminating everything around her in silvery light. That was when she noticed for the first time that there were bars on her window. ↗

— Margaret George

#imagination

This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her. ↗

— Eva Ibbotson

#humor #marek #song-for-summer #humor

A dream business that doesn't make money is a living nightmare. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#dream #goal #inspirational #investing #living-nightmare

Suddenly exhausted, she closes her eyes and slips into nightmares again. Graveyards rising out of the ocean. Her friends’ corpses in the light of their burning school. Skeletons ripping open men's chests and crawling inside. She endures it patiently, waiting for the horror film to end and the theater to go dark, those precious few hours of blackout that are her only respite. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#dystopia #nightmares #tragic #men

Marriage is very important. Marrying a girl is the most important thing a man can do. Never mind business or politics or sport or any of that, there's nothing so vital to the world as a man marrying a woman. That's where we get our children from, that's how the human race goes forward. And if it's too late for children, there's the companionship of a safe and trusted person. ↗

— Frank Delaney

#the-matchmaker-of-kenmare #business

Well, I suppose that consequently makes you my favorite nightmare. ↗

— Katja Michael

#love #nightmare #love

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#movies #nightmare #pleasure #movies

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. ↗

— Herbert Gold

#boils #brought #careers #demands #edge

I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore. ↗

— George Eads

#character #eat #even #getting #horrible

I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare. ↗

— John Crowley

#clever #had #i #nightmare #producers