The Dreamers
Karen Thompson Walker
Top 10 Best Quotes
“This is how the sickness travels best: through all the same channels as do fondness and friendship and love.”
“The things that could have happened but did not are just as crucial to a life as all the things that do.”
“But time moves in only one direction. Not everything that breaks can be repaired.”
“Worry, she often reminds her patients, is a kind of creativity. Fear is an act of the imagination.”
“They died, he wrote, as if overcome by sleep - or, according to a second translation: as if drowned in a dream.”
“There is a difference between what is not true and what cannot be measured.”
“His girl will love and be loved. She will suffer, and she will cause suffering. She will be known and unknown. She will be content and discontented. She will sometimes be lonely and sometimes less so. She will dream and be dreamed of. She will grieve and be grieved for. She will struggle and triumph and fail. There will be days of spectacular beauty, sublime and unearned. There will be moments of rapture. She will sometimes feel afraid.”
“...how much quieter that ending would be, a whole world drowned in sleep, than all the other ways we have to fail.”
“When one's life seems broken beyond repair, there remains one last move: a person can at least shut her eyes.”
“They sleep like children, mouths open, cheeks flushed. Breathing as rhythmic as swells on a sea. No longer allowed in the rooms, their mothers and fathers watch them through double-paned glass. Isolation - that's what the doctors call it: the separation of the sick from the well. But isn't every sleep a kind of isolation? When else are we so alone?”
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Book Keywords:
reality, loss, time
