“What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.”

“He gave up and went back to loafing, found that he could sleep all right in the afternoons but that the practice kept him awake at night.”

“He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.”
Sedit qui timuit ne non succederet.

“Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake.”

“If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake — Aye! and what then?”

“What he could do with a football is a dream for most of us.”

“He could bear the dying, but not the disappointment.”

“He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.”

“What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?”

“The saint is the man who acts as if he had died and returned to life; having already ceased to be "himself" in the earthly sense, he has no intention whatever of returning to that dream, but maintains himself in a kind of wakefulness, which the world with its narrowness and impurities cannot understand.”