Reverie Quotes

“If you look at most female archetypes—the mother, the virgin, the whore—their power comes from their relation to men. But not the Witch. The Witch derives her power from nature. She calls forth her dreams with spells and incantations. With poetry. And I think that’s why we are frightened of them. What’s scarier to the world of men than a woman limited only by her imagination?”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“Dreams can be parasites we sacrifice ourselves to. Dreams can be monstrous, beautiful things incubated in misery and hatched by spite. Or dreams can be the artifacts we excavate to discover who we really are.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“What’s scarier to the world of man than a woman limited only by her imagination?”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“That’s the thing about a big imagination. It’s hard to belong anywhere when you can always imagine something better.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“Just because something is imagined doesn't mean it isn't dangerous. Sometimes the things we believe in are the most dangerous things about us. That's why people build entire worlds in their minds. Because they think they're safe. But they're wrong. Dreams are like parasites. They grow up in the dark within us, and they grow deadly.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“We must tell our stories ourselves, you know, or else they will destroy us in their own violent making.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“The unreality of something is no reason to dismiss it. Sometimes reveries—and dreams for that matter—are more real to a person than the reality they serve to distract from.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“In this unmoving instant Kane knew the reverie for what it was: a living tapestry of memories and thoughts and dreams, sewn together with the desperation to be real, to be realized.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“Kane turned to look out the window, gazing at the changing trees. Their beauty made him feel worse. He reminded himself that autumn, for all its cozy brilliance, was actually a flamboyant sequence of decay.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“Kane wasn't scared to talk about his pain; he was scared of making other people listen.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“just because the nightmare had ended didn’t mean it had never happened.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“You think just because you've faced trauma you're excused from treating people with compassion?”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“That’s the thing about a big imagination. It’s hard to belong anywhere when you can always imagine something better. I wouldn’t worry about settling just yet, though. You’re very young. Lots of time to figure out what you want, and then make it happen. But not if you stay here.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“If this reverie held the brightness and warmth of a dancing flame, it was because of the gnarled, black wick of anger smoldering at its core.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“Never expect a world designed for someone else to show you mercy. When it's your turn, you cannot flinch.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“Their past was an ache between them. A knot that wound tension and tightness through the space they shared and the skin they touched.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“Just because something is imagined doesn't mean it isn't dangerous. Sometimes the things we believe in are the most dangerous things about us. That's why people build entire worlds in their minds. Because they think they're safe, but they're wrong. Dreams are like parasites. They grow up in the dark within us, and they grow deadly.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“Helping me survive is not helping me achieve.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“Saving the world isn’t usually a matter of want, Mr. Montgomery. How cowardly you must be to balance the destruction of reality upon the scales of your own heart. And how selfish.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“Weapon!” Poesy laughed. “Weapons only destroy, my dear. Instruments, however, both destroy and create. That’s what makes them so powerful.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“The unreality of something is no reason to dismiss it.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“he realized that when people tell stories about the dead, they create life in reverse. What’s remembered about a person becomes what was real about them after they’re gone.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“Kane blinked away the daydream and ran to catch up with his friends.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“The man winked conspiratorially, making Kane grin. “Thistler is occupied with…I don’t know. Whatever occupies the pathologically heterosexual. Perhaps trying to find just one more use for his three-in-one shampoo–conditioner–body wash?”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“Their past was an ache between them.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“And, he reminded himself, saving the world was not usually a matter of want.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“He owed her and Adeline for a lesson learned too late: sometimes a person’s dreams are all they have and taking them away can break a heart or even stop a body. The act of crushing a dream can’t be minimized. At best, it’s mean. At worst, it’s murder.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“He reminded himself of the few reveries he’d witnessed. They all taught him something new about the way dreams inhabit a person. Dreams can be parasites we sacrifice ourselves to. Dreams can be monstrous, beautiful things incubated in misery and hatched by spite. Or dreams can be the artifacts we excavate to discover who we really are.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“But then he saw their asking faces in the moonlight, and he saw they were the only things holding the darkness of the mill at bay. He realized that, as messy as their entrance had been, they had shown up for him after all. They each had arrived in their own way, choosing to chase the flame of his half-imagined hunches over the comfort of their own beds and the safety of their own dreaming.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie

“He thought of the gloomy, covert life so many queer people were forced to live as they found one another in a time and a world that could not adjust to them. He thought of secret meetings and secret names, and the secret sadness that grew like mold in the humidity of a life kept closed.”
― Ryan La Sala, Reverie