dream
I don’t consider myself a hero. I’m an ordinary girl who believed in her dream. You don’t have to be someone special or anything special to achieve something amazing. You’ve just got to have a dream, believe in it, and work hard.
Awarded the Order of Australia Medal after attempting a solo circumnavigation of the planet at the age of 16.CNN, May 15, 2010.
After your first day of cycling one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow…
The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1897), 79.
About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but it seems to me it’s just the contrary.
Often it’s something you paid no attention to at the time—a vague thought that you didn’t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed—these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.
Doctor Zhivago (New York: Pantheon, 1997), 283.
Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
“Flying Scrolls,” in The Skylark: and Other Poems (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1959), 76.
…and because the light will enlarge your days, your dreams at night will be as strange as the jars of octopus you saw once in a fisherman’s boat under the summer moon…
“Late Spring,” in A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (New York: Harcourt Bracy & Company), 27.