{"quotes":[{"text":"His dad's eyes were getting darker. 'How bad is it really?'\tVery bad. Too many fronts to fight.\tBur for starters...\t'That big storm out east?' Jordan and Rook had gone to investigate... 'That's the Sandman in the waking world.'\tHis dad frowned deeply. He shook his head and shrugged. 'I don't know what that means.'\tYeah, well... 'Neither do we.","author":"Erin Kellison","tags":["nightmares","paranormal","sandman"],"id":12607,"author_id":"Erin+Kellison"},{"text":"It was a time of dark dreams. They washed in like flotsam on the night tide, slipping beneath doorways and window latches, rising through the streets and hills; and the little fishing-town of Scarlock foundered deep.","author":"J.A. Clement","tags":["dreams","nightmares","sea"],"id":14868,"author_id":"J.A.+Clement"},{"text":"King shrugged and looked back at Harlen. 'Please tell me you have a plan. Because my baby girl really likes to color with me.","author":"Erin Kellison","tags":["dreamscape","future","nightmares","sandman"],"id":17829,"author_id":"Erin+Kellison"},{"text":"May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.","author":"H.P. Lovecraft","tags":["nightmares","sleep"],"id":18210,"author_id":"H.P.+Lovecraft"},{"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":"Are you sure this isn't a nightmare? And that we won't just wake up?Yes.Because dreamers always wake up and leave their monsters behind.","author":"Alexandra Bracken","tags":["monsters","nightmares"],"id":23543,"author_id":"Alexandra+Bracken"},{"text":"I think that love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long time, and still remember why you were waiting when she comes at last.... I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.","author":"Peter S. Beagle","tags":["dreams","love","nightmares","waiting"],"id":25886,"author_id":"Peter+S.+Beagle"},{"text":"Those in their snug Bed-chambers may call the Fears of Night meer Bugbears, but their Minds have not pierced into the Horror of the World which others, who are adrift upon it, know.","author":"Peter Ackroyd","tags":["fear","horror","nightmares"],"id":27534,"author_id":"Peter+Ackroyd"},{"text":"You are much larger than anything you encounter while you sleep. Everything that happens in dream takes place on a small stage in a corner of your mind.","author":"J. Aleksandr Wootton","tags":["dreaming","nightmares","reality"],"id":30493,"author_id":"J.+Aleksandr+Wootton"},{"text":"It's time to laugh at your nightmares and have nightmares of your laughter.","author":"Melita Tessy","tags":["funny","humor","laughter","nightmares","wit"],"id":30958,"author_id":"Melita+Tessy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":157,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}