Nightmare Quotes - Page 7

• Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

  Patricia Briggs

  Numbers, People, Spawn

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.109, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• For a moment Ethan simply stares. Before him is the monster of his nightmares: his sister's murderer, the beast who robbed him of his greatest love. How easy, how fulfilling would it be to take Marduk's life? But the arrow in Ethan's fingers slips to the ground. "No. even revenge is too great an honor for you." As the night falls and brings an end to this long day of darkness, Marduk inhales his last staggered breath and his body turns to stone.

  Marianne Curley

  Revenge, Fall, Night

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• Love is universal migraine, A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason. Symptoms of true love Are leanness, jealousy, Laggard dawns; Are omens and nightmares - Listening for a knock, Waiting for a sign: For a touch of her fingers In a darkened room, For a searching look. Take courage, lover! Could you endure such pain At any hand but hers?

  Robert Graves

  Pain, Love Is, Hands

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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• For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to morning through the shadows.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Morning, Sleep, Men

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.617, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the point where I could feel their weight in my chest. Nothing, however stuck with me more than the memory of stepping into that dark room and what I found there, and how the light then took that nightmare and made it real.

  Sarah Dessen

  Fear, Memories, Real

  "Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, April 6, 2006.

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• I will be a wise and tolerant monarch, dispencing justice fairly, and only setting nightmares to rip out the winds of the evil and the wicked. Or just anybody that I don't like.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wise, Rip, Wind

  "Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes". Сomic book series by Neil Gaiman, 1989.

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• Writers. For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in your heads. If you go too long ignoring it, it builds up and then you do all sorts of weird things. Mumble to yourself. Nightmares. Day-dreams. Total anarchy and chaos. Before you know it, the writer is either sitting in corner feverishly humming to his- or herself or on Prozac. You’re not on Prozac, are you? (Esther)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dream, Long, Esther

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “In Other Worlds”, p.117, Penguin

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• [Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the Enlightenment, that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly paradise whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Beautiful, War, Men

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• Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn't?

  Darren Shan

  Courses

  Darren Shan (2012). “Volumes 5 and 6 - Blood Beast/Demon Apocalypse (The Demonata)”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled and I felt that smile come at me in heat waves following, soaking through my body and out my finger tips in shafts of color and I knew somewhere in the world, somewhere, that there was love for me.

  Jim Carroll

  Beautiful, Girl, Dream

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• I dropped my voice and stared into her eyes. I could tell she was trying hard not to look away. I was so furious I could have cheerfully ripped her head off. "But you're going to find out, Mom,' I said very softly."And it's gonna give you nightmares for the rest of your wasted life." Oh, my God, I was so badass. It was all I could do to not give a MWA HA HA!

  James Patterson

  Mom, Badass, Eye

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• I’ve been here before, dreaming myself backwards, among grappling hooks of light. True to the seasons, I’ve lived every word spoken. Did I walk into someone’s nightmare?

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Dream, Light, Hook

  Yusef Komunyakaa (1998). “Thieves of Paradise”, p.14, Wesleyan University Press

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• -"Nick?" "I'm still here, Laurant." -"Did you tell Tommy we slept together?" "No, but you just did. He's standing right here." She fell asleep. But this time she didn't have any dreams or nightmare.

  Julie Garwood

  Dream, Together, Stills

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• I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if I were on the verge of death-plankton maybe." -Percy Jackson

  Rick Riordan

  Might, Poseidon, Turn Me

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• I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.

  Suzanne Collins

  Morning, I Hate You, Katniss

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.156, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.

  Suzanne Collins

  Love, Strong, Kissing

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.195, Scholastic Inc.

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• I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.

  Ilsa J. Bick

  Land, Phantoms, Ghost

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• How do you bear it?” Finnick looks at me in disbelief. “I don’t, Katniss! Obviously, I don’t. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there’s no relief in waking.” “The more you can distract yourself the better, ” he says. “First thing tomorrow, we’ll get you your own rope. Until then take mine.

  Suzanne Collins

  Morning, Katniss, Relief

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• I felt like I was trapped in one of those terrifying nightmares, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough... But this was no dream, and, unlike the nightmare, I wasn't running for my life: I was racing to save something infinitely more precious. My own life meant little to me today.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Dream, Running, Moving

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• This was a nightmare scenario for any bodyguard: stuck in the middle of a transparent tube, several miles underwater, with a murdering band of fugitives at one end and an enthralled but still highly skilled police officer at the other.

  Eoin Colfer

  Police, Underwater, Band

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