{"quotes":[{"text":"Just because the nightmare you expected comes true, it doesn't make it any less terrifying.","author":"Robert Jackson Bennett","tags":["expectations","nightmare"],"id":2350,"author_id":"Robert+Jackson+Bennett"},{"text":"Success is subjective. Your dream bank balance could be someone else’s nightmare.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["dream","money","nightmare","success"],"id":8833,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"How dare the embodiment of her worst nightmare come packaged as her hottest fantasy?","author":"Karen Marie Moning","tags":["adam","fantasy","gabby","karen-marie-moning","nightmare","the-immortal-highlander"],"id":12161,"author_id":"Karen+Marie+Moning"},{"text":"I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.","author":"Simona Panova","tags":["convincing","gothic","lie","lying","nightmare","nightmarish","pretend","pretending","romance","sacrifice","tell","truth","young-adult"],"id":12882,"author_id":"Simona+Panova"},{"text":"There's not one good thought in that place. There's nothing but waste and want. I can feel his selfish cravings and an abyss of secrets I hope to never know.","author":"Steve V. Cypert","tags":["abyss","alone","dark","darkness","emotion","emptiness","empty","loneliness","lonely","night-terror","nightmare","secret","want","waste"],"id":16774,"author_id":"Steve+V.+Cypert"},{"text":"Then the man smiled, and his smile was a shock, for it was all on one side, going up in the right cheek and down in the left.There was nothing, rationally speaking, to scare anyone about this. Many people have this nervous trick of a crooked smile, and in many it is even attractive. But in all Syme's circumstances, with the dark dawn and the deadly errand and the loneliness on the great dripping stones, there was something unnerving in it. There was the silent river and the silent man, a man of even classic face. And there was the last nightmare touch that his smile suddenly went wrong.","author":"G.K. Chesterton","tags":["crooked","nightmare","smile"],"id":17084,"author_id":"G.K.+Chesterton"},{"text":"In the dark behind the glare of the television, like a mannequin behind it, I could see a silhouette and it wasn’t moving. It was maybe six foot high with its shoulders hunched and I blinked to make sure it was real. The TV fuzzed grey and white and black and I had a lump in my throat that I couldn’t swallow away. “Rory” I whispered. Clawing out gently beneath the duvet cover, reaching for his hand. But I couldn’t find it. And he didn’t answer.","author":"Kate Chisman","tags":["frightened","frightening","ghost","ghosts","girl","haunted","haunted-house","horror","night","nightmare","nightmares","scary","scream","stalker","stalking","terror"],"id":19037,"author_id":"Kate+Chisman"},{"text":"A.I. Might be straight out of science fiction, but it's going to turn into man's worst nightmare.","author":"Anthony T. Hincks","tags":["a-i","artificial-intelligence","computer","life","man","nightmare","philosophy","robots","science-fiction"],"id":33839,"author_id":"Anthony+T.+Hincks"},{"text":"For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . But alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["clown","eddie","it","king","nightmare","pennywise","reality","stephen"],"id":44005,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.","author":"Rachel Cohn","tags":["dreams","life","love","nick-norah-s-infinite-playlist","nightmare","reality-check"],"id":44930,"author_id":"Rachel+Cohn"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":127,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}