• Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

    Elizabeth Bowen: Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.
    Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr