They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, an…

Mark Helprin
75 citations
They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at times, I have crossed over. Can't you see? I've been there. ✨ Mark Helprin (1983). Winter's Tale, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Time
25

More Author Quotes

And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between. ✨ Mark H … ▶
Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed what was given, and trembled in awe of the hand that was … ▶
From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prison … ▶
and even when I was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though I had fallen, I found upon arising that I was stronger than before, that the glories, if I may call them that, which I … ▶
There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's alive in a way that's greater than any description of it. ✨ Mark Helprin (2012). In Sun … ▶

They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at times, I have crossed over. Can't you see? I've been there. ✨ Mark Helprin (1983). Winter's Tale, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes