“She did the best that we could be; she was perfectly charming and perfectly loving. She was a dream. And she was the kind of dream that you remember when you wake up smiling.”

“Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality”

“That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.”

“Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?”

“She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.”

“When a man comes to love a woman exactly as she had dreamed, she decides he is a weakling.”

“And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.”

“So softly death succeeded life in her,
She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.”

“Will I see you give
More than I can take?
Will I only harvest some?
As the days fly past
Will we lose our grasp
Or fuse it in the sun?Did she wake you up
To tell you that
It was only a change of plan?
Dream up, dream up,
Let me fill your cup
With the promise of a man.”

“She said I've heard you flying high on my radio
I answered "It's not all it seems"
That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes
When we don't get to touch our dreams."”