Ian McEwan  - Quotes

 The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.  

Tags: daydreaming   dreams   fantasy   imagination   life     


Ian McEwan  - Quotes

 The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual.

It was difficult to come back.
 

Tags: atonement   bryoni   daydreams     
Ian McEwan  - Quotes

 The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. It was difficult to come back. 

Tags: child   daydreaming   fantasy   reality     


Jill Eisenstadt  - Quotes

 Her legs swing complete afternoons away. 

Tags: afternoon   daydreaming   summer     
David Foster Wallace  - Quotes

 What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration. 

Tags: daydream   school     


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