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.
There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me.
Ive wished for things and never really had the chance...Its time to stop dreaming and do something about it. Youve got to know what you want then...go.
There must be another life she thought sinking back into her chair exasperated. Not in dreams but here and now in this room with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life here and now she repeated. This is too short too broken. We know nothing even about ourselves.