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1 " Just because something is imagined doesn't mean it isn't dangerous. Sometimes the things we believe in are the most dangerous things about us. That's why people build entire worlds in their minds. Because they think they're safe. But they're wrong. Dreams are like parasites. They grow up in the dark within us, and they grow deadly. "
― Ryan La Sala , Reverie
2 " We must tell our stories ourselves, you know, or else they will destroy us in their own violent making. "
3 " If you look at most female archetypes—the mother, the virgin, the whore—their power comes from their relation to men. But not the Witch. The Witch derives her power from nature. She calls forth her dreams with spells and incantations. With poetry. And I think that’s why we are frightened of them. What’s scarier to the world of men than a woman limited only by her imagination? "
4 " What’s scarier to the world of man than a woman limited only by her imagination? "
5 " Dreams can be parasites we sacrifice ourselves to. Dreams can be monstrous, beautiful things incubated in misery and hatched by spite. Or dreams can be the artifacts we excavate to discover who we really are. "
6 " That’s the thing about a big imagination. It’s hard to belong anywhere when you can always imagine something better. "
7 " Their past was an ache between them. A knot that wound tension and tightness through the space they shared and the skin they touched. "
8 " In this unmoving instant Kane knew the reverie for what it was: a living tapestry of memories and thoughts and dreams, sewn together with the desperation to be real, to be realized. "
9 " If this reverie held the brightness and warmth of a dancing flame, it was because of the gnarled, black wick of anger smoldering at its core. "
10 " That’s the thing about a big imagination. It’s hard to belong anywhere when you can always imagine something better. I wouldn’t worry about settling just yet, though. You’re very young. Lots of time to figure out what you want, and then make it happen. But not if you stay here. "
11 " The unreality of something is no reason to dismiss it. Sometimes reveries—and dreams for that matter—are more real to a person than the reality they serve to distract from. "
12 " Only now am I seeing a new truth: that sometimes the broken bits are just the pieces you need to create something new, something better, something remarkable" -Raffy "
― Ryan La Sala , Be Dazzled
13 " Just because something is imagined doesn't mean it isn't dangerous. Sometimes the things we believe in are the most dangerous things about us. That's why people build entire worlds in their minds. Because they think they're safe, but they're wrong. Dreams are like parasites. They grow up in the dark within us, and they grow deadly. "
14 " Their past was an ache between them. "
15 " Sometimes reveries—and dreams for that matter—are more real to a person than the reality they serve to distract from. "
16 " But then he saw their asking faces in the moonlight, and he saw they were the only things holding the darkness of the mill at bay. He realized that, as messy as their entrance had been, they had shown up for him after all. They each had arrived in their own way, choosing to chase the flame of his half-imagined hunches over the comfort of their own beds and the safety of their own dreaming. "
17 " He reminded himself of the few reveries he’d witnessed. They all taught him something new about the way dreams inhabit a person. Dreams can be parasites we sacrifice ourselves to. Dreams can be monstrous, beautiful things incubated in misery and hatched by spite. Or dreams can be the artifacts we excavate to discover who we really are. "
18 " He owed her and Adeline for a lesson learned too late: sometimes a person’s dreams are all they have and taking them away can break a heart or even stop a body. The act of crushing a dream can’t be minimized. At best, it’s mean. At worst, it’s murder. "
19 " But you can't design a future and expect it to just happen. Like art, you can only start with intent. Your hands build the rest." -Raffy "
20 " You think just because you've faced trauma you're excused from treating people with compassion? "
