“What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.”

“This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.”

“All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.”

“We make things happen be believing they will," he once said to me. "We dream where we're headed, and one day, as if entering that dream, we arrive there".”

“I have a dream of what would have happened if what happened instead hadn't.”

“What happened?" he asked brusquely, interrupting me. "What do you mean, what happened?""I sensed your fear, heard you call out my name.""I...no, I didn't." Stone Wall, I told myself. Great Wall of China, around my thoughts."The Great Wall of China isn't going to do it, Violet. Come on, tell me what happened.”