The Sandman and the War of Dreams Quotes

“Old friends sometimes need no words to understand each other.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“I think all wishes are the same, really," she continued. "Whether they ask for this, that, or the other, what they are really asking for is happiness.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“Unlike them, however, her path was not through daring deeds or the study of magic or the use of miraculous powers. She had been gifted with something almost as rare: an open and eager mind. She had the gift of watching and listening, the gift of taking all the hurts and happenings of others' lives and understanding their purpose.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“She lived in a sort of ramshackle magnificence.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“I wish to be washed clean of my old life. To let go of my tide of sorrows and find my way to a new shore.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“It was a smile of total reassurance and gave all who saw it a feeling of intense well-being. Not joy, but something akin to a sleepy peace. A sort of not-a-worry-in-the-world sensation.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“Dreams do not exist within the realm of hours or minutes or any measure of the day. They live between the tick and the tock. Before the toiling of the bell, past the dawn, and beyond the velvet night.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“They want what they don't need, or can't use, or won't ever make them whole.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“A soothing sound enveloped them. Ombric hazarded a guess as to its origin, "It's like the falling sand from a thousand hourglasses.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“All the pirates, and Lord Pitch's mercy, were dead in less time than it takes to sing a song.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“A Dream Pirate attack is swift and ragged. Like awkward phantoms, the pirates often fly in lurches and jerks, and they usually destroy everything that gets in their way.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“Lo habitual en los sueños son las aventuras extrañas, asombrosas y terribles. Las tierras incógnitas vienen y van. Los sueños épicos se despliegan. Las guerras se luchan y se ganan. Los seres queridos se pierdan y se encuentran. Mientras dormimos, vivimos vidas completamente diferentes. Y después despertamos, con disgusto o alivio, como si no hubiera ocurrido nada.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“Strange, wondrous, and terrible adventures are the norm in dreams. Uncharted lands come and go. Dream epics play out. Wars are fought and won. Loved ones are lost or found. Entirely different lives are lived as we sleep. And then we awake, with disappointment or relief, as if nothing at all had happened. But sometimes things do happen.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“THE GUARDIANS: BOOK ONE Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King THE GUARDIANS: BOOK TWO E. Aster Bunnymund and the Warrior Eggs at the Earth’s Core! THE GUARDIANS: BOOK THREE Toothiana, Queen of the Tooth Fairy Armies”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“Time passes strangely when you are sleeping. You can close your eyes when it is night, then open them again and see morning. Yet the hours that went by seemed no longer than the drifting journey of a leaf in a soft breeze.
Strange, wonderous, and terrible adventures are the norm in dreams. uncharted lands come and go. Dream epics play out. Wars are fought and won. Loved ones are lost and found. ~Entirely different lives are lived as we sleep.~ And then we awake, with disappointment, or relief, as if nothing ever happened.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams