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• Thalia had been turned into a pine tree when she was 12. Me... well, i was doing my best not to follow her example. I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if i were ever in the verge of death—plankton, maybe. Or a floating patch of kelp.

  Rick Riordan

  Tree, Might, Example

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under that thin cover of let's-pretend, monsters and nightmares lay, and that not all of them came from places like the moonroads or the nightling cities. Some of the monsters were people we knew. People we thought we could trust.

  Holly Lisle

  Children, Cities, People

  Holly Lisle (2009). “The Silver Door”, p.166, Scholastic Inc.

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• For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.

  Stephen King

  Sweat, Bed, Comfort

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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• My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

  Suzanne Collins

  Romantic, Hunger For Love, Katniss

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.86, Scholastic Inc.

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• I could see her get all nervous but she was also excited. Nightmares have that quality, don't they?

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Quality, Nervous, Excited

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• As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are transformed, and sometimes rise to the surface and sprout like strange plants from other worlds. What is the fertile humus of the subconscious composed of? Why are certain images converted into recurrent themes in nightmares or writing?

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Lying, Writing

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• This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.

  Dan Simmons

  Support, Language, Breakdown

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• I didn't want to understand. Bert had been thrilled that the police wanted to put me on retainer. He told me I would gain valuable experience working with the police. All I had gained so far was a wider variety of nightmares.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Police, Want, Gains

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “The Laughing Corpse: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.22, Penguin

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• I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Facts, Used, Should

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Innocence

  Ellen Hopkins (2010). “Fallout”, p.526, Simon and Schuster

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• Your father wasn’t a positive influence on you, was he? (Simone) Being the god of nightmares, he wasn’t a warm fuzzy bunny. Unless you count Happy Bunny. Amazingly the two of them have a lot in common…And I have to say that I’ve developed a fondness for that pissy rodent. (Xypher)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Two, Rodents

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• No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Used, House Of Leaves

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• I’m your worst nightmare come to walk this side of the lines. I’m an elf, Trent something you’re forgotten how to be. You’re scared of black magic. I can see fear shimmering under your aura like sweat. I live and breathe black magic. I’m so tainted with it that I will use it without thought, without guilt and without hesitation.

  Kim Harrison

  Sweat, Worst Nightmares, Black

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• What were you dreaming about?" "You." He twisted a lock of her hair around his finger. "I always dream about you." "Oh, yeah? Because I thought you were having a nightmare." He tipped his head back to look at her. "Sometimes I dream you're gone," he said. "I keep wondering when you'll figure out how much better you could do and leave me.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dream, Hair, Locks

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1348, Simon and Schuster

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• In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only the product is credit, not crack or heroin. It concentrates the money of the population in just a few hands with brutal efficiency, just like narco-business, and just as in narco-business the product itself, debt, steadily demoralizes the customer to the point where he’s unable to prevent himself from being continually dominated.

  Matt Taibbi

  Ghetto, Dope, Hands

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• It was unsettling to be in love with someone who looked like the face in her nightmares.

  Patricia Briggs

  Faces

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• Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from Moscow, holding on to her son, knowing she had failed him, crying for Alexander, wanting another drink, and Harold, in his prison cell, crying for Alexander, and Yuri Stepanov on his stomach in the mud in Finland, crying for Alexander, and Dasha in the truck, on the Ladoga ice, crying for Alexander, and Tatiana on her knees in the Finland marsh, screaming for Alexander, and Anthony, alone with his nightmares, crying for his father.

  Paullina Simons

  Father, Son, Knowing

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• No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused and annoyed all the time.

  Lauren Oliver

  Girl, Confused, Boys

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• Surely I must be a princess in an enchanted sleep. Any day now, this dream-no, nightmare would end, and I’d get my prince and happy ending.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Princess, Sleep

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.5, Penguin

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• Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form.

  Ilona Andrews

  Warrior, Men, Half

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.149, Penguin

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• Private boarding schools and Catholic schools on the East Coast are something. Choate really ruined my father's life. He's had nightmares about Choate every since he went there. Treat Williams, who's a good friend, went to Kent School, in Connecticut. The stories I've heard about those places - didn't you have one nun who was just the worst nightmare?

  Laura Dern

  School, Good Friend, Catholic

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• Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

  Jodi Picoult

  Cutting, Together, Pieces

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?

  Saul Bellow

  Thinking, Life Is, Ninety

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• I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Life, Depression, Sleep

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sweet, Children, Father

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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