"I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind." — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"So rapidly do our dreams travel on imagination's wings..." — Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"Our memory is a more perfect would than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist." — Guy de Maupassant, "Suicides", Le Gaulois

"His love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered." — Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..." — John Milton, Paradise Lost

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important." — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince translated by Katherine Woods

"There was a horrible, erratic thumping in my chest, as if a large bird was trapped inside my ribcage and beating itself to death." — Donna Tartt, The Secret History

"As for myself, I am splintered by great waves. I am coloured glass from a church window long since shattered. I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them." — Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping