There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.
Interpretation
This quote speaks to the enchanting yet haunting nature of love and dreams, suggesting a deep emotional connection that one may resist letting go of.
In this quote, Kamila Shamsie captures the bittersweet essence of love that lingers in the form of dreams, highlighting how one can become enamored with the memories and feelings associated with a person, even if they are tinged with sadness. The metaphor of a 'ghost of a dream' suggests that these feelings are both intangible and persistent, illustrating the complex relationship between love and loss.
In practice
This quote can be used during a poetry reading to evoke the depth of love experiences.
Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of Arc to me when I was ten. And when i told you that, you said my cultural references were the sign of a colonized mind.
How horrifying that morning when you wake up and your first thought is not of the person who has left. That’s when you know, I will never die of a broken heart.
Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.
love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins
The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving.
Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.
I went to the school and put it to William, particularly, that if you find someone you love in life, you must hang onto it, and look after it, and if you were lucky enough to find someone who loved you, then you must protect it.
They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much
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