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1 " What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return. "
― Cormac McCarthy , The Road
2 " Do you know the feeling you get when you are awakened in the middle of a dream? The dream story is still real and full of color, but the waking world is rushing back into your mind. And for a moment both worlds are true, and you cannot quite tell them apart. "
― Shannon Hale , Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)
3 " She had never met a woman from the waking world. Once she asked Carter about it." Women don't dream large dreams," he had said, dismissively. " It is all babies and housework. Tiny dreams." Men said stupid things all the time, and it was perhaps no surprise that men of the waking world might do so as well, yes she was disappointed in Carter. "