Julia Quinn Quotes

I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened; when conscious thought grew owl's wings and talons and became other than conscious.

I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.

In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by

I don't want realism. I want magic!

I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.

Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!

I put on my dream-cap one day and stepped into Wonderland.

I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see?

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

Oui, dans mon rêve, j'étais un crayon, mais admittedly, I'd more suitably be characterized as a plump carrot.

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

When you think about a walking tree, laughter is the response.

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.

If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years.

I want a dragon.

Lewis Carroll, you see, wasn't really interested in telling an exciting story. Well, he wasn't interested in things like cause and effect or a linear narrative. It's surreal, it's absurd, it's wordplay, it's satirical, it's analyzing itself, it's funny, it's an enormous challenge.

A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream, Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.