45 Quotes by Sandra Newman

She couldn't know anyone, but someone still needed her. She couldn't be anyone, but she could still love.

To Ben's eye, there were no apparent signs of wealth, though he wasn't sure what he'd expected. Fountains?

The dream was strongest of all when Kate's heart was broken. Then she fell asleep as if falling out of life, and the dream became numinous as real things are numinous, vivid even as it blankly slept. She couldn't prove it even to her own satisfaction, but she felt the dream was quickened by love.

. . . while the world became the something else of dreams, of books, of Kate.

Outdoors; everything one might dream. The fairy-gray clouded sky and the fairy-green misted wood. Her tall horse shying at a sparkling brook. All dreams.

There can be no friendship between our peoples. We live in your nightmares, and you are but our dreams.

The dream was greater than a dream. It was a greater life than life.

But this was reality, occluded and delicate.

Some days, she was pain incarnate. She would suffer all day and he would try to cheer her up and fail, and he felt like an irrelevant gnat.