| 单词 | nightmare |
| 例句 | I felt like I was trapped in one of those nightmares where you’re churning in quicksand. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He puts his arm around her, speaking softly, the way he speaks to me when I’ve had a nightmare. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The film ends with a woman who has a nightmare of bearing a mentally defective child. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “There might have been another way. You made the choice. You chose nightmares. I was too young to know better. You used me like one of your ghosts.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She put it on, and her robe over it, belted tight, and considered her face in the mirror: her huge haunted eyes and the tale they told of nightmares and sleepless days. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z My refuge from the nightmare of Plaszów was now a trap. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Even in the safety of her bunk at camp, she’d had horrible nightmares. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There were ten people in the outside office now, all with nightmares of their own. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Compared to the nightmare existence that Robert Schumann endured, it was a walk in the park, though surprisingly Schumann’s is the music of greater tranquillity and warmth. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Jolly difficult to sleep and when I do I just have nightmares about flying burning planes with faulty chokes, being forced to cut Julie’s throat with Etienne’s pocketknife, etc. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z My nightmares started then, nightmares in which I saw Ade Coker’s charred remains spattered on his dining table, on his daughter’s school uniform, on his baby’s cereal bowl, on his plate of eggs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z A thick, blobby form, multiple arms, two big glaring eyes distorted by the glass into huge saucer orbs, the stuff of nightmares. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Mine still had a spout for a tail, what a nightmare....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z What became known as the “residency question” was a logistic nightmare. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Papa on one side, Maria on the other, comforting me from a nightmare. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I tried not to think about my nightmare or monsters or the shadow at my window. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z For William, who had dreaded the coming of evil times ever since he was a small child, it was like watching a nightmare become real. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I hear security system and school board and babysitter and nightmares and ulcer and high fiber. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z A guy who had ditched me, who had haunted my sexual awakening with a nightmare of self-doubt. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Destiny” sounded like an obligation, and if I was to be thrust into battle against a legion of nightmare creatures, that had to be my choice. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He wakes up at night screaming with nightmares. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “And I’m through with lull, and I’m through with nightmares, and I’m through with vengeance. Weep has suffered enough and so have we. We have to find another way.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “I think somebody would know if Kronos had re-formed. The gods would be more nervous. But still, it’s weird, you having a nightmare the same night as Zoe. It’s almost like—” “They’re connected,” I said. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Still half in the nightmare, I run down the hall, out the front door, and around the side of the house, because now I’m pretty sure I can scream at the dead. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She suspected this was a test for Maya to see whether or not her newly discovered biological relative was a homophobic nightmare. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z At least when he wakes up from his nightmares, the rocks are right there for me to hand to him all over again. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The rest of Ferula’s quarters seemed to Clara to fit precisely with the nightmare that had begun when her sister-in-law appeared in the dining room of the big house on the corner to say goodbye. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re all too busy looking away and trying to believe it’s a collective nightmare we will eventually wake up from. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z That year summer arrived early, with a sultry heat that covered the city with its nightmare glare. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s had a lot of nightmares in this room. Many of them were his own, but...I had a hand in plenty.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z That was when he relived the nightmare of the mauling and felt the ache of being alone, the fear, and yes, still, the anger. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “It took him years to get over it. He had nightmares and he suffered just as you do. But it didn’t stop him from living.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He felt like he couldn’t breathe, like the nightmare was squeezing the breath right out of him. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z The whole story about my parents, the Chandrian, the man with black eyes and a nightmare smile. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The following morning, we started speaking to each other as if awakened from a nightmare or a dream that had given us a different take on life and the situation we were in. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z There were classroom nightmares, and schoolyard nightmares and principal’s office nightmares; but there was another kind, too, that had to do with an empty mailbox. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The warden said, “Sounds like you were having a little nightmare?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I only had to add, “pushed him out of the tree” and the chain of implausibility would be complete, “then I ...” just those few words and perhaps this dungeon nightmare would end. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z That swim now seemed like a nightmare from another lifetime. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z At last he folds his arthritic white hands, raises them before him like a nightmare flower, and speaks. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z And both of those tired, little monkeys sleep through the night—without waking up from a nightmare once. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z This was the true end of our immigration nightmare. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z She walks beside her father with her cane telescoped in one fist, her other hand on his rucksack, everything disconnected from logic, as in nightmares. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I was so desperately wondering how to end the nightmare that I felt quite dizzy. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The nightmare city of Ghulheim sat on a high rocky outcrop ahead of them, and the creatures loped down the road towards it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The pain in my arm became the only real thing, a sharp point of comfort in the midst of a nightmare. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed like a monster, a horror from a nightmare, but Thomas knew it had to be a Glader, someone who’d completely lost his mind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Then again, I just woke my mom up with a nightmare, so five sounds about right. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z And then he leaped back, because into that gap there came a small furry golden hand with black fingernails, and then a face—a nightmare face. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If she lives through all of this, she’s probably going to have nightmares about that moment that never happened for the rest of her life. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z His nightmares about Ebola virus, the bad dreams of liquid running through pinholes into his space suit, had never really gone away. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I did not mind leaving—what else was new?—but how could they send me back to that witch, who, in my nightmares, baked her for-show cookies out of foster children. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Some of them are nightmares, like hanged corpses rotting in soccer fields with bloodred grass. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She could only think about getting her family through each minute, each hour of this nightmare. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Even her waking dreams we used—to silence our own nightmares. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Tyr will stop him, Tyr the one-handed, and they will fight, man and nightmare dog. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The violence was bad enough, and being made to watch it was even worse, but with Mrs Pratchett in the audience the whole thing became a nightmare. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z And once more, they were in the middle of the nightmare. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z After hearing the details of Just Renee’s nightmare, she knew exactly what the problem was. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Finn had nightmares enough, but not about cornfields. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Thus he could fall asleep that night untroubled by the nightmare that he had given Crick carte blanche for another foray into frenzied inconsiderateness. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It all seemed like a nightmare to her now, everything since Bran's fall, a terrible dream of blood and grief, but she had the pain in her hands to remind her that it was real. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Gene Johnson had suffered recurrent nightmares about Ebola virus ever since he began to work with it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The nightmares will go away after a while,” he says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z My sleep is deep and dreamless, but a nightmare wakes me with a start. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “Joaquin,” Linda said, and her voice was as soft as it was whenever he had a nightmare, like it could be a protective barrier between him and any bad thing that would possibly happen. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Around them, the Bochinche swarmed with rumors, tall tales, and nightmares about the Manhattan riots. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Next to the reality of the nightmares, my premonitions felt like toothless bedtime stories. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “He gave me a nightmare!! Remember, Mommy? That nightmare about the zombies from last year?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Numbly, she followed the others, wishing it were a nightmare from which she could awaken. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I lay in bed and shuddered and shivered and dreamed all sorts of nightmare happenings. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z That may be your only way out of this nightmare. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the first time I saw someone die, and I had nightmares about it for a long time.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He blinked hard to end this nightmare, to shake himself awake. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z On the screen, locomotives screaming across a black-and-white nightmare of iron-bridged chasms. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z So now I’m here against my will, and I’m already grouchy because I had the nightmare again last night. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I realized that it was stupid of me to have left him alone, knowing that he had had the nightmare, knowing that it might have been the beginning of the high fever. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z April 17—I had a nightmare last night, and this morning, after I woke up, I free-associated the way Dr. Strauss told me to do when I remember my dreams. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z She found in her grandmother a sure refuge when she was haunted by nightmares or when her Uncle Nicolas’s training became unbearable. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The adder’s jaws opened in something resembling the nightmare of a smile. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z For two weeks I had nightmares about this girl, until the teachers finally moved me to the other side of the room. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z They were waiting for me to show up and take them home so we could put this nightmare behind us. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z To make sure no one had a nightmare, all the beds in the House of Wong stood empty until the skies were lit by the dawn and the danger passed. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z I had the feeling as in a nightmare of it all being something repeated, something I had been through and that now I must go through again. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z It was hard to see many opportunities when faced with floor-to-ceiling pink cabinets and drawers teeming with the stuff of nightmares. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z That last dream had been only one of many falling nightmares. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It was like an old forgotten nightmare, something remembered months afterwards with doubt and disbelief. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Now it was quieter and die nearby cannon were no longer firing and Lee came forward out of the smoke and the nightmare. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Impassively he stood there against the wall, in the shadow of the flickering candle, seemingly trying to awaken himself from some bad dream, some nightmare. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It came alive, more terrible than any nightmare. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She looked as if she had just awakened from a terrible nightmare. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Enough to know that I’ll certainly have nightmares tonight, and maybe even nightmares for the rest of my life. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I placed it under my pillow at night to ward off nightmares. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They appeared older and much more drab than the goblins in my nightmares. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z And will I ever stop having nightmares about my parents? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The living men and women and children of Weep were safe from her nightmares again tonight. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z If you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a dream, less than a dream, a nightmare half-remembered? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z So I must stay in the room with him, at least until he gets through this nightmare. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She drove them into nightmare, till they wheezed and neighed as though with jaws no longer theirs, while blood defiled their meat, and blurring tears flooded their eyes, heart-sore with woe to come. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z All his memory of other lands and other men was a child’s nightmare of blood and giants and screaming: Ged could see that in his face, as he shook his head and shook his head. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I have crazy nightmares about a kidnapper showing up and stealing Ford. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Suddenly he remembered the nightmare that had woken him, and how he had tried to steady himself by mapping the island in his head. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z But you are usually alone in nightmares, dreadfully alone. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z ‘You don’t have to tell me I had a nightmare. I remember just how it was. And I’ve had the same dream for about fifteen times before.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z My nightmare blinks away—flames, the city in flames, me and Uncle Bernard watching from the dining room window. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A familiar look—the one he gives me if I wake from a nightmare or we run out of grain. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Somehow the reporters concluded that the sick monkeys had been “destroyed as a precaution” when in fact the nightmare, and the reason for troops, was that the animals hadn’t been destroyed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In a way it was like a nightmare, in which you might continue to consume huge masses of putty without being able to stop. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others. Don’t pout; you’re about to see something impressive. And it won’t even give you nightmares.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I was plagued by wake-up-screaming nightmares so bad that I had to wear a mouth guard to keep from grinding my teeth into nubs as I slept. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “But are you still having nightmares?” she asked. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Each untimely end came draped in its own shroud of dread, like a recurring nightmare that never lost its potency. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “I know,” he said, and he sounded so sad, not like the angry Scott of my nightmares, more the broken one that sat on my bed and told me about his dead child. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It was real; yet it seemed a nightmare, it could not be true that my son lay dead before me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z If I hadn’t started getting nightmares again, and if Jack hadn’t punched me, none of this would be happening. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z “I used to have nightmares about you,” he said. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z "She was a demon. As soon as my father was out of the way she became a holy terror. My life was a nightmare." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Then, just as in her nightmares, the Mark of Athena burned across the walls, incinerating the spiders until the room was empty except for the smell of sickly sweet ashes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The height is beautiful to me, but if it’s here, it is one of his worst nightmares. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “Absolute nightmare,” said Bagman to Harry in an undertone, noticing Harry watching the goblins too. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “I saved hundreds of lives, I know I did. But that is very cold comfort. It is the ones I lost that I remember. In my nightmares I see the faces of people who died.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z What really seized him was the implication of nightmares. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Cole looked at the two of them, his nightmare still haunting him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z A place that held plenty of its own nightmares. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z From then on, the nightmares became simply too frightening. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z But in the days before school closed, I’d have nightmares about how to get there. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Dobbs was in even worse shape than Hungry Joe, who could at least fly missions when he was not having nightmares. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z As the nightmares continued, he dropped out of a course in automobile repair. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The grownups would come running and I would stare at them, as though they were figures out of my nightmare, then go back to sleep. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever that place was, whoever that voice was, it all got driven to the back of my mind when I opened my eyes to a nightmare. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z What happened in the nightmare was something no one else ever needed to know. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z The family sat frozen in the dining room, as if they were in the middle of a nightmare. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The girls in our room want to know where I learned to sing like that and what I'm going to do when we get out of this nightmare. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I learned that peony taken with wine can relieve nightmares or melancholy dreams. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z In many ways, running a zoo is a hotelkeeper’s worst nightmare. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he’d have nightmares and box the air with his fists. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Fiendishly laughing, they had insisted on the low squalor, the nauseous ugliness of the nightmare. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Tomorrow he would face Weep, and his duty, and the nightmares that stalked him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I didn’t tell my father about that last conversation I had with Danny, and I had many nightmares that year in which Reb Saunders screamed at me that I had poisoned his son’s mind. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The war had come as a nightmare in which you chose your nightmare side. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The walk to the bus stop is only a few blocks from my house, but it reminds me of a nightmare I always have. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Standing boldly on the backboard of the hay cart was the biggest, fiercest, most evil-looking rat that ever slunk out of a nightmare! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Like a Manichaean nightmare, the two sit on opposite poles of the number sphere, sucking numbers in like tiny black holes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I slept an hour and woke in the grip of a nightmare about explosions, invasion, murder, and conflagration. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I am afraid I am going to start having nightmares once we get deep at sea. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z It was like Lorraine’s nightmare, where something forced her toward the room with the black curtains. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z It was a nightmare — Dad was working overtime for weeks.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z What was I doing in this sociopath’s bedroom, in her mind, rummaging through her dreams, her nightmares? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z RiRi made the face she pulled out when she wanted something, like an extra piece of camp bread or to sleep in my tent so I could tell her stories to keep the nightmares away. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The cramped streets and dusty markets of the Scholars’ Quarter blur past me like the landscape of a nightmare. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She was wanting the word that would free her of this nightmare; but he would not give it to her. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z This was one more of those experiences she says gave her nightmares for years. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Seeing him at Fizz’s again is like involuntarily pressing play on a personal nightmare. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I didn’t need to see his face; I’d heard Adrian’s voice in my nightmares often enough to recognize it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Mary Todd Lincoln burst into the room, and the bright gaslight confirmed to her that this was not a nightmare as she hoped it was—this was real. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It all got twisted up in nightmares in the days that followed, and embellished by Lazlo’s horror and regret. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Six days into what should be the greatest month of my life, and it's turned into a nightmare. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Gabe’s smell was almost worse than the nightmares about Mrs. Dodds, or the sound of that old fruit lady’s shears snipping the yarn. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “Or a room where you faced all your nightmares at once?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I look panicked because making faces and throwing my hands around in front of a group of people sounds like an actual nightmare I've had more than once. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z She didn’t know why, but she imagined it was some shadowy figure with red eyes and sharp teeth, a monstrous villain come out of her nightmares with metal hounds to hunt them down. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “You ever think this is just a nightmare and someday you’ll wake up and things’ll be the way they were before?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Even before it blew up into the nightmare tonight had become, Manhattan hadn’t felt safe. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Or she could fall asleep, and maybe fight nightmares—and maybe win—and hurry the day on its way. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “You couldn’t fire a gun if you wanted to. You forget, I’m intimately familiar with your poor, fragile psyche. It’d give you nightmares.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Nobody who hasn’t gone through this could imagine what a nightmare this is,” he said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z They had no idea the waking nightmare that lay in wait for them. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The thin man stepped out of the cauldron, staring at Harry . . . and Harry stared back into the face that had haunted his nightmares for three years. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I told him I had had nightmares about that explosion. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Fear of being seen again—and not with wonder this time, but for the nightmare that she was. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was a night of thin sleep and bad dreams, spent much as I’d spent the previous day: being chased by packs of nightmare dogs. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “This time you have to face your nightmares.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “Sounds like a nightmare. And how do you get there, walk?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Otherwise they were dressed identically, and their outfits definitely belonged in a nightmare. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then again, after the tragedy, he had nightmares so bad, his mom slept in a chair in his room. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Talking to them about it is just reliving it, and unlike Alexa, I don’t have a need to relive nightmares if I can help it. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I didn't care if we were supposedly nearing the end of our legalization nightmare. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z We would not wake up from this nightmare to find out it was someone’s real life, and for once that someone wasn’t just a poor unlucky nobody in a shack you could forget about. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Here in Oklahoma, where Ray is the star of nightmares and the international Bible study, there is a Persian man who owns a rug store in the rich part of Tulsa. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The kids fear water, yes, and when a pipe burst last year there were screams and nightmares, but slowly they’re growing stronger. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Most demigods had vivid nightmares about what was going on in the world. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I cry myself back to sleep, wishing, pleading, praying that I’ll wake up from this, but the same nightmare always awaits me. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to morning through the shadows. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Suddenly it was as if they had all been wakened from a nightmare, and the sounds of panic spread through the room. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Once I had a nightmare about that room. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Was it just a nightmare, or was he delirious again? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Hell, I’ve spent the past eleven years pretending none of it ever happened, and outside of the nightmare, I’ve been successful at keeping it shoved waaaaay to the back of my mind. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z So I survived one nightmare, and now I’m stuck in another: the Super Saver with Mom. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Matt was no longer sure of what was real and what was a nightmare. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I don’t want to give the Queen a nightmare,’ Sophie said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t remember the dream exactly, but everything inside this place is the stuff of nightmares. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “Yeah. What a nightmare that was. One day he was here, and the next...” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Every nightmare that shook every sleeper in Weep carried the same subliminal warning. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She had trouble falling asleep, and her nights were interrupted by vivid nightmares. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He had nightmares that he would take ten, twenty, or thirty jump shots in the first practice and not make a single one of them. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As hard as he had tried to adjust, he couldn't accept the nightmare his life had become. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z At one point she seemed to have a nightmare. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But what was really interesting to me, when I thought about it, is that it had been a dream—not a nightmare. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if I were ever on the verge of death— plankton, maybe. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Fear was her medium, and nightmares her art. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I had a nightmare last night, and when I woke up I remembered something. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Only a few days ago, I saw him dead on the nightmare battlefield. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z So, I woke up from this dream, this nightmare, just as my dad drove the car up to our house. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z My nightmare started out as something I’d dreamed a million times before: I was being forced to take a standardized test while wearing a straitjacket. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “As much as I want to hunt a Nightbeast, because, well, I’m me, I had, like, twenty separate nightmares about being eaten by one,” Valley added. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z A crowd of men and women moiled like nightmare figures in the smoke-green haze. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z At first I assumed he was keeping himself awake because he was afraid of nightmares, but then I started thinking that maybe he’d been asleep when they’d come to take his fingers. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The Budget Lodging clerk, who seems to have some familiarity with the housing nightmares of low-wage workers, suggests I keep trying motels. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t, Katniss! Obviously, I don’t. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there’s no relief in waking.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z On New Year’s eve, I have my greatest dream and my worst nightmare. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t been gone long, and the last few years I had lived here had been a nightmare, but what I remembered wasn’t the snow shoveling and the shootings and the starvation. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The cold would be torture enough, but the real nightmare is listening to Cato, moaning, begging, and finally just whimpering as the mutts work away at him. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Most of those reports were a nightmare--grotesque, circumstantial, eager and untrue. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “Um ... no. Me running the world would kind of be a nightmare.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z We are controlled here by our confusion, far more than we know, and the American dream has therefore become something much more closely resembling a nightmare, on the private, domestic, and international levels. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The nightmares transform into a black pit of pain, and the pain stalks me like a vengeful twin. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Many times, when Enrique falls asleep, he has the same nightmare: A snake has bitten him in the mouth. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I started in, past the stairs I had seen so often in my nightmares. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z He shook his head, as a man will do to shake off a nightmare, and then put his face in his hands. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Teresa said: “Oh, Mother, I’m so glad you’re back. He’s been having nightmares and shouting about monsters and cats; and when I talk to him, he doesn’t hear me at all.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Would he lead Matthias out of this nightmare or just drag him into another kind of hell? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Now it was chaos: wild-eyed citizens caught in a nightmare carnival in which there was but one attraction. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z That’s why it felt like a nightmare when Joseph, maybe three steps away from the bank, fell through the ice of the Alliance River. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Sometimes after the migraine had stopped, I was able to fall asleep briefly, only to be awoken by nightmares. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “What about your nightmares ?” “I don’t have nightmares,” Hungry Joe lied. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I must have finally fallen asleep, because I woke from a horrible nightmare. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z If getting Mama to agree on the shirt I’m wearing right now was a challenge, picking out something to wear to a school dance will be a nightmare. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z “The throat’s better,” the old woman had said in Sarai’s nightmare. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z For several moments he had had the feeling of being back in a nightmare which had recurred from time to time throughout his life. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I try to wake as discomfort turns into nightmare, but I only slip deeper in, until eventually there is nothing but choking, burning light. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “So,” he continued, “it is a nightmare. Most of these one hundred thousand inmates will probably die without ever knowing whether they have MDR-TB or not.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Cinder turned back to me and the pity fell away like a cracked mask, leaving only the nightmare smile upon his face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I come suddenly awake once more from the nightmare. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I just wanted to sleep and wake up and the nightmare would be over. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “How does that work? I mean, are the nightmares produced by the computer or by your brain?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z You loosened your grip and let the nightmare take her. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z And a head...a head that was made for nightmares. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But for three nights after I left the bakery there were the nightmares. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Blanca made her all sorts of soothing teas and warm baths, and Esteban resorted to the old box of homeopathic pills to calm her down, but her nightmares continued. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I was remembering a man with empty eyes and a smile from a nightmare, remembering the blood on his sword. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z This was the nightmare that woke him up screaming every night. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z This is her worst nightmare—gossip about us. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z A nightmare this might be, yet it was no dream. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Bizarre nightmares finally drove him to the VA for help. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Had it somehow stepped out of the nightmare and—? A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z But I was ten years old, and I had no idea of the nightmare that was to come. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Their jesting lie had turned into nightmare truth. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z All night long I had been having nightmares in which throngs of black people sprawled dead in pools of red blood, surrounded by all sorts of slimy, creeping creatures. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Had they gone through this whole nightmare only to end up dying in the Dead Land? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They slept the night through, sometimes shouting out in nightmare terrors of great waves or danger on the ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The nightmare was slipping from him, but there was something he couldn’t put his finger on, something different, something— A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z A terrible nightmare follows, where I’m lying at the bottom of a deep grave, and every dead person I know by name comes by and throws a shovel full of ashes on me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Luke knew why: a sound from his worst nightmares—pounding on the door, and then the command, “Open up! Population Police!” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z I thought the nightmare was coming to an end. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z For, as if all the earth dragons were waking from nightmares, the grumbles became snarls and the sea began to bellow. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z All too often, I’d drift off, only to wake from nightmares about the fire that had killed my family. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z As I stepped inside, it felt like the past few months had been a terrible nightmare. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z It was enough to give a person nightmares. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Ekon shook himself, brushing away the remnants of the nightmare like a cobweb. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The rocky hole he lived in was to him like the worst nightmare of imprisonment would be to a human being. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z I have nightmares for the next fifteen hours straight. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z That night, Annabeth slept without nightmares, which just made her uneasy when she woke up—like the calm before a storm. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z For a moment, he was sure he’d walked into a nightmare — this was too much, on top of everything that had happened so far. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Percy didn’t recognize her, but the girl stared at him as if she’d seen him in her nightmares. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z There were sharks every day, mainly makos and blue sharks, but also oceanic whitetips, and once a tiger shark straight from the blackest of nightmares. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Among its regional leaders were five former Confederate generals; its staunchest supporters were the plantation owners for whom Reconstruction posed an economic and political nightmare. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The car skidded, then rolled when the shoulder turned to cliff, a blurred, chopped nightmare where sound and light cut through us. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z All of his nightmares, and they were never far from him when he slept, dealt with falling. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Getting claimed by the war god in front of the whole camp —what a nightmare. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Then my body jolted and my eyes flew open, as if I’d been suddenly awakened from a nightmare. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “He has prophetic dreams. Gets these great nightmares every so often, which have a disturbing tendency to come true.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The way she held her hand was like a nightmare, like a Halloween ghost, like someone under a witch’s spell in a fairy tale. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He has been delirious some of the time, and he has nightmares. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Getting to the studio from the Hollywood Hills was a nightmare. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It was a bit of a mind melt to see the roving-eye van still parked in front of my place, a nasty reminder that this nightmare was way real. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Masterson’s Tomb is an escapist’s dream in the summer, but it’s a realist’s nightmare in December. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Now, here we were living in a nightmare. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Perhaps only those who endured the twentieth century’s death camps—Hitler's, Stalin’s, or Pol Pot’s—can imagine the nightmare of slavery as it existed in the nineteenth-century South. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s different, the nightmare I wake from this morning. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z And bless his heart, he takes my hands and says, “The nightmare is over, Dedd. Look at what the girls have done.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “A nightmare. Do not tell us any more of your awful stories.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, as Toby sat on the ground shivering, it felt like he was stuck in a nightmare and there was no chance of waking up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z At last, his weariness overcame him and he slept, plunged in nightmares. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z She felt as though she was sinking into something, a nightmare she couldn’t wake from. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The Augurs have somehow brought my nightmare to life, unrolled it before my eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Gwydion had called out to him once—or so Taran believed—he could not recall his friend’s words, perhaps even that had been part of the nightmare. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z With that first blow on the elbow the nightmare had started. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z This is also what he’s done: given her a life sentence, these memories, these intrusive thoughts, these nightmares. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It was an answer to the question, but it came out as though he were warding off a nightmare or a blow, as though even the idea was an assault, and he couldn’t bear it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The nights when I do not dream of my family, I have nightmares of something or someone trying to kill me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The few overworked doctors of the country did not often get to the ranches for a birth unless the joy turned nightmare and went on for several days. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I tried to stay up all night, afraid to let the nightmares get me in bed. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Peeta’s panting hard as he fights the nightmares raging in his head. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I had a nightmare last night and I woke up sweating and apologizing. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But when the singing stops, the dreams fade, and I descend into nightmares. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I can see why humans succumb to the beautiful nightmare of the Court, why they willingly drown in it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Before I could answer, something rose out of the sea, and out of my nightmares, too. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z If I don't acknowledge It, will they think I'm just not able to confront difficulty, challenge, hurdles, this absolute nightmare? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z I’ll be hearing Philip’s voice saying the words “return on investment” in my nightmares for the rest of time. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And just when I’m sure I’m about to die, all the neon lights start spinning like some nightmare carnival tornado. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z If she held it for long enough, she thought she might wake up from this awful nightmare and be back safe at her family Seder. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The nightmares he began to have....But he learned to find answers for himself. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z His feet were twitching like dogs do when they’re having a nightmare. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z She had, after all, brought nightmare to this dreamer to whom she had come seeking refuge. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I’m already rolling my eyes as I wrestle myself into a purple chiffon nightmare. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “The creator of Tempest, Dave Theurer, originally got the idea for the game from a nightmare he had about monsters crawling up out of a hole in the ground and chasing after him.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But that night I had a nightmare that was different from the ones I had been having. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He lay quietly, still shaken by the terror of his nightmare. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “It seems to me that I have been dreaming a horrid dream for four years, and now the nightmare is gone.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He wanted her not trapped in the sky, not hunted by humans, not hopeless, and not besieged by nightmares whenever she closed her eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z By the evening before the second task, Harry felt as though he were trapped in a nightmare. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The encounter with Snow opens the door to my old repertoire of nightmares. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Behind the morphine dreams is the nightmare of reality. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Towards morning I was possessed by a kind of nightmare; I felt the fiend’s grasp in my neck and could not free myself from it; groans and cries rang in my ears. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z The situation is the kind that produces nightmares in thoughtful people. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z As she drifted back to sleep, though, she was swallowed by another nightmare about the Hoppers. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I make a promise to myself: if I have another nightmare tonight, I’ll talk to someone and ask for help. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z They tell you all the nightmares you ever had were your fault, and you were the reason somebody broke your mother’s jaw. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He no longer had nightmares, Bloom said, but he did still dream about it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z However difficult the situation in Hungary, however, it was a tea party compared to the nightmare that unfolded in Russia in the 1930s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z My worst nightmare is now becoming my reality. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Maybe if I keep my eyes closed, this version of the world will vanish, and Mobius and the Exclusion Laws will fade into the smoky blur of my nightmares. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Mom rubs Javier’s head to calm him down like she does when he has a nightmare. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Anything, anything that would get me out of this nightmare. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z He pulled up and hovered about a hundred feet above the spot, then joined Mark at the windows.The two of them looked down on a complete nightmare. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I guess it’s pretty bad when a nightmare feels like a privilege. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Might the invaders liberate me from this nightmare? Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing baffled, quaking with fear, three feet from the edge of a nightmare cliff, I find myself, incredibly, moving toward it. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a nightmare, of course, and a desecration of the highest mountain in the northeast, but I was delighted it existed in one place. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z As far as he was concerned, it had been a yearlong nightmare. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Miranda was proclaiming the possibility of loveliness, the possibility of transforming even the nightmare into something fine and noble. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z And maybe it was these thoughts rattling around my head that sparked the nightmare. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Yelling, waving machine guns, and wearing disguises, the men seemed like something out of a nightmare. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z "Since Lord Renly died, he has been troubled by terrible nightmares," the boy had confided to his father. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Eventually, I suppose, the nightmares will stop and I’ll stop replaying it over and over and over in my head, but right now I know that there’s a long night ahead. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked way dreamier than she had in any of my nightmares, and I couldn’t really remember why I’d been afraid of her for so long. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z When they waved good-bye, my nightmare was over. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I could not believe I was alive; I could not believe I was not dreaming a frightful nightmare. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be a true nightmare except that at the same time good, sweet memories are given even more strength, more reality. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He came behind me into the reception room where the birds flamed in the cage, their squawks like screams in a nightmare. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z When I wake before dawn, scraps of nightmare stay with me: my face carved and branded; my brother hanging from the gallows, fair hair fluttering in the wind. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I couldn’t face the nightmares I knew would come. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z At this point I’m praying for somebody—anybody—to come and rescue me from this nightmare that I call my father. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z It’s like a nightmare, one that goes on long after I’m awake. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Having any brother would be horrible, I suppose, but having my particular brother, Jeffrey, is an unrelenting nightmare. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew I was going into the office to take a look at the nightmare felon, no sense pretending I wasn’t. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Later that night, my family and I went shopping, and that’s when my nightmare started. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z A quest for a new life, different from the nightmare I had been living for eighteen years. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dallas? I had a terrible nightmare. I dreamed I was upside down in a boat, under the water, and I couldn’t get out.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z When I fall asleep I have an old nightmare again, the one I used to have all the time after Bas died. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “You are quite literally Queen Victoria’s worst nightmare.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I was right about one thing: church had been bad, but school was a whole other nightmare. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z “You’re not my idea of a nightmare,” he said, blushing a little. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Another nightmare replays an incident when Belky was two years old. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z For the barest second, I pray that I’ll wake up from this nightmare and be home. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z When Conor started having that nightmare, that’s when Harry noticed him, like a secret mark had been placed on him that only Harry could see. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z He looked like a kid now—his watery brown eyes, the fear and fatigue in his face, like a kid waking up from a nightmare or something. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z All of his life he had been haunted by nightmares of helplessness. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He must have eventually drifted off, but the only way he really knew he was asleep was when the nightmare came. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z People who lived in Murphy Homes felt like prisoners, kept in check by roving bands of gun-strapped kids and a nightmare army of drug fiends. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z And I was thinking ’bout Pap and how the cap’n had made it so that he was tore up by nightmares from watching a baby get cat-hauled. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z “On top of that, I’ve been having nightmares of my own. They don’t make as much sense as yours.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I can’t tell him that I’m having nightmares about Will, or I would have to explain why. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z And if Jeffrey is there, it’s the biggest nightmare of all. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z After a day lost in a nightmare, the car takes me away from the movie theatre, the drugstore and the motel that grinds up girls into bite-sized pieces. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z And Tris, conjuring weapons out of thin air to attack her worst nightmares. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I must have had nightmares last night—even though I can’t remember any of them, I’m dead tired, and my heart is pounding furiously. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Amar, my initiation instructor, taught us that our fear landscapes were always in flux, shifting with our moods and changing with the little whispers of our nightmares. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “You must see that! Julian’s had nightmares because of that boy. Did you know that? Julian has anxiety issues.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z The nightmare of all those years had been pain enough. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z She had a feeling the nightmares were due to its absence, and wished repeatedly for it to be restored to her, even though Cain was now dead. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But I feel too good, too refreshed—no nightmare for the first time all week—for their insults to get me down. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z It seemed the jungle’s very essence had sought him out, a living nightmare purged from its most wretched depths. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He didn’t trust his mind anymore, didn’t know if what he was seeing before him was real or the stuff of nightmares. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “I—I had the weirdest nightmare about popcorn.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z All that had taken place around that black lake seemed like an old nightmare now; had it really happened, and only hours ago? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He looked with dread toward the doorway, not wanting to look but unable to resist the temptation, remembering his old nightmare. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to him the Street of the Turks, with its dazzling display of knickknacks, became a melodic oasis where one could forget Arcadio's arbitrary acts and the distant nightmare of the war. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She says the whole experience gave her nightmares for years after. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The puppeteer had jerked them across the stage in twitchy rushes that had left him with nightmares for weeks. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Nightly nightmares of a dead girl gift wrapped in a shower curtain. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z June throws her head back and laughs, loud and unguarded, and Nora rolls her eyes, and Alex is glad, at least, that he’ll have this to come back to when the nightmare is over. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I had learned from his nightmares about his fight with Edward. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Byron said he’d had nightmares for a couple of weeks after they left Alabama ten years ago. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He needed to be better about that, about letting the nightmares debilitate him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Ina sour, foggy flash the whole nightmare came back to me: being followed, the fear, the anger, the rat-faced kid, the beating. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Sure, we can’t change what happened, but if we can string together enough clues, we can prove that whatever nightmare has befallen us, we could have stopped it, if only we had been smart enough. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It doesn’t matter if Will has nightmares and Gat hates himself. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z In his imagination, he pictured a wall being erected, a barrier between himself and the nightmares. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He fears being discovered, having the whole charade somehow unravel, and in nightmares his files are exposed, his original name printed on the front page of the Yale Daily News. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I was grateful not to be squishing in chicken mud, which I did not have nightmares about so frequently now. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t live in fear of the nightmares. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Not being threatened by Uncle C in a nightmare. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z That nightmare drags me in its gritty wake and leaves me broken and thrown, pieces missing. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Minya just wanted to know about the nightmares, but the others were more interested in Weep itself. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Jethro labored for long hours beside Bill, and both of them were grave; but no mention was ever made of the things that had been said on the night of Jethro’s nightmare. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “He... Oh. The augury? Yeah, teddy bears must have nightmares about that guy. But you’re in! We need to get you cleaned up before evening muster.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It was hard to remember that this was the Palace of Illusions and not of, say, nightmares. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z This week that was supposed to be a fun break for my brain had just turned into my worst nightmare. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Nina stepped under the arch and felt as if she’d fallen into some strange nightmare. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z A thousand nightmares rained through my mind and I was about to shout his name, when I heard him start to laugh. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Or in the night, when Cecilia came to rescue her from a nightmare and take her into her own bed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Buck’s first day on the Dyea beach was like a nightmare. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z "I am no stranger to nightmares, Sansa. Perhaps you are wiser than I knew. Permit me at least to escort you safely back to- your own chambers." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He felt the mental wall he’d erected to keep the nightmares at bay slowly crumble to dust, so that nothing would stop them from advancing. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It seemed like a nightmare where everything you take to be the rock-hard, solid basis for reality becomes unreal. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know I’ve told you a million times, but I’m sorry, baby. I’ll always regret putting you through that. I’m sorry that you still have nightmares about it.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She had nightmares and got stomachaches when her mother went away on trips. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z I mention it to no one, but it devours my waking hours and weaves itself throughout my nightmares. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Dawn was breaking outside by the time she finally fell asleep, but the nightmares hadn’t finished with her yet. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Oh yeah, dances and dodgeball: the two Ds of my middle school nightmares. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Al screams every night from his nightmares and cries into his pillow. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z When Herbie finally slept that night, Hieronymus Bosch never had such chilling nightmares. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The sergeant doctor called for fever, cold, and many other illnesses, but he never asked if anyone was having nightmares or migraines. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She flew away from nightmares and privation and the turned backs of her kindred. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Eventually, I did get over the nightmares, though. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z “Then this really is like the start of all good apocalyptic nightmares,” he said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Mom sits next to me and runs her fingers across my back the way she used to when I was little and woke up from a nightmare. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Somewhere in the city, Germans are loading weapons or drinking brandy and history has become some nightmare from which Marie-Laure desperately wishes she could wake. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Last night I had the worst nightmare: I was on live TV with Mr. Keller but suddenly the station turned into a stage. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, his trauma followed him home to Brooklyn, New York, where he had nightmares, suffered disabling headaches, and sometimes ran out of his house screaming “Incoming!” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Conor yelled, feeling too heavy to stand, as he did every time the nightmare began. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z When his letters failed to arrive, nightmares dogged her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Before this nightmare happened. Got off around seven thirty A.M., thought I’d swing by to give my support.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z His breakfasts may have been a cardiologist’s nightmare—eggs, sausage, bacon, pastina with a poached egg—but he considered his marinara sauce to be healthy perfection: just garlic, oil, tomatoes, salt, and pepper. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Then a witch had stepped out of his childhood nightmares to grab him, and he’d lived through that. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Each time they come back to me, they are like a nightmare and I am living them over again. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z As in a nightmare, the dozens became scores, the scores hundreds. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the same nightmare I had been having recently. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Even so, he slept fitfully, tossing for hours before sliding down into a nightmare. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Someday, these weapons might be used in war, but now they only served as the backdrop for a waking nightmare. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I never talked about St. Louis to her, and had generally come to believe that the nightmare with its attendant guilt and fear hadn’t really happened to me. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d only slept long enough that morning to have the nightmare, as if things hadn’t been bad enough. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “Its no wonder no one can stand her,” he said to Harry as they pushed their way into the crowded corridor, “she’s a nightmare, honestly.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z We spend a fitful night, woken by one another’s nightmares, minds buzzing with the next day’s plans. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Indeed, how could civil rights organizations, some of which are larger and better funded than at any point in American history, have allowed this human rights nightmare to occur on their watch? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But while the nightmare’s happening, the burning or the cutting or the beating, you realize something you known all your life: the white lady don’t ever forget. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Goodness, I’m going to have nightmares about this,” Mom said. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z I hate your telling people about my nightmares! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Sleep brought only nightmares and he roused to find himself shouting aloud. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z He had just time to realize that the age-long nightmares of falling and death were past and that the morning was come, when he heard the sound again.' Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Sorting out the multiple transactions, prices, and motives would be an administrative nightmare. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The huge dinosaur couldn’t cross the river with them—it would be too conspicuous to ride around Brooklyn—and there was no way to go back into that nightmare. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z These nightmares had plagued me since I turned five two weeks ago. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The one I saw lifeless on the nightmare battlefield. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z They joked and they picked fast when the bosses’ eyes were on them and they acted big, but at night in the cabin after midnight they wept, they screamed from nightmares and wretched memories. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It wouldn’t be a field of dreams at all, but one of nightmares. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I had vampire nightmares; every night the fangs grew longer, and my angel wings turned pointed and black. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Quite apart from wanting to win, Harry found that he had fewer nightmares when he was tired out after training. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “Un-Dead! Not alive! What do you mean? Is this all a nightmare, or what is it?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “It’s like a nightmare,” Mom complained when she didn’t think I was listening. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Whatever the nightmare had been, it was over. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “No, Madame. I think you heard the man pass through—but unconsciously; later you had a nightmare of a man being in your compartment and woke up with a start and rang for the conductor.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I awaken from a nightmare I can’t remember to the violent pitching of the ship. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Shortages of goods, which was soon to be a collective nightmare, had begun. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “What does Mom do, when she comes in after the nightmare?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Ever since my father’s death, I had been plagued by nightmares of water and sickness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I dragged myself out to moonlight and found a nightmare vision of dark red, boiling ground. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I played out the nightmare over and over in my mind—the last day, the last hour, the last minute, liberation so close, then my luck would run out. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z It only gave her nightmares, and no matter what she tried, she couldn’t get rid of it. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Sophie stared down at the fearful nightmare dream that was still thrashing away in the huge glass jar. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He could see it all, the fire in the water and the air filled with the nightmare of an entire squadron diving at leisure toward defenseless ships. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘You’ve had a nightmare. I looked over here and your mouth was open and you were groaning and shuffling your feet on the floor. I never saw anything to equal it.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Sometimes she awoke gasping for air as if she had been in the midst of a nightmare, but she could not remember what she had dreamed. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z If I keep repeating this, maybe I’ll wake up from this nightmare. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “You know, I thought it was foolish, that he was hiding from his nightmares. But he was right.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z We were reliving the nightmare of Fifteenth Avenue. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z What most afflicted him with the sense of nightmare was that he had never clearly understood why the huge imposture was undertaken. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It reminds me of the endless field in my crow nightmares. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z When Clara was alive and Alba was still a child, the big house on the comer was a cloistered world in which she grew up protected even from her own nightmares. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to have done with talking and leave this house—in a moment they would leave, and the nightmare would be over. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The winter nights in the dark little house became nightmares. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The policy is that it’s only supposed to be used for public irrigation—because serving a litigious, finicky public reclaimed water, no matter how clean it is, would be a public relations nightmare. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z As the nightmare reached its most perfect moment— A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z If not, she has terrible nightmares and screams, “Help, help!” and wakes up Zeide. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z From then on, I did that with him whenever he had a nightmare. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The bad part was, I had a nightmare, and even by my standards it was a whopper. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z But then I began having nightmares—people shooting and running, all the things that had really happened—and I began feeling very down. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He raps about final goodbyes, nightmares we want to wake up from, and the inevitable squeeze of Death. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z They blear into a nightmare, the one scarcely distinguishable from the other. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Luckily the boys didn’t witness that beating—they would have had nightmares for weeks. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Named after a woman who promoted the education of prisoners and championed humane conditions of confinement, Tutwiler has become an overcrowded, dangerous nightmare for the women trapped there. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z But he could not forget the night Mr Hooper had carried him upstairs, after his nightmares, and how he had wanted to stay close to him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z And whenever he had nightmares, she was always there to rock him back to sleep. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Every time Colonel Cathcart increased the number of missions and returned Hungry Joe to combat duty, the nightmares stopped and Hungry Joe settled down into a normal state of terror with a smile of relief. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She felt as if this were a nightmare and she was dreaming it all over again. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I tossed and turned as if in a nightmare, but the persistent pounding and kicking at the door, and the muffled voices coming from the bedroom convinced me otherwise. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And the black masses in America were—and still are—having a nightmare. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In some of the nightmares, I was the daughter and the charred remains became Papa’s. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z "Even though we've been through the same exact nightmare, you find a way to hold that over me. Like you even survive better than me. You always have to be on top." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The worst nightmares seemed like glimpses of the future. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I wake up several times during the night from a nightmare where I’m trapped in a glass room. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z President Wilson had a nightmare on his hands. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It was like waking from a nightmare to a worse nightmare. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Even the sounds of nightmare from the other shelters no longer reached him, for he was back to where he came from, feeding the ponies with sugar over the garden wall. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Wonder if she’ll be joining the cast of my nightmares tonight. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He’s the same guy I remember from my hospital nightmare: stocky, bald, partially preoccupied. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Even the fear of having a nightmare was gone by then, too. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z I rubbed my eyes, trying to sort out where the nightmare stopped and the waking world began. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I realize then I can’t be dead, and I fight and struggle and kick and try to wake from this terrible nightmare. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The haul back up into the island undergrowth was a nightmare of pain and struggle. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z A single bite from its massive jaw, one hard swat from its powerful paw, anything now would tip the balance and end this nightmare. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z There were dreams, nightmares, but nothing solid, periods of heat and cold and shaking images of his father peering into his eyes... Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z She averted her eyes and hurried past, feeling as though she were still trapped in a nightmare. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Across town on this very same night, my grandmother is having a nightmare. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The mouse who pursued him through his nightmares. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Aru had that nightmare whenever her mom left for business trips. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I’d spend the rest of my days living in fear, looking over my shoulder, tormented by nightmares, waiting for them to finally come back and punch my ticket. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I think of the nightmare battlefield, and my blood goes leaden at the memory. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It was like a nightmare—suddenly my joy and freedom ended. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your worst nightmare,” she said in a deep Batman voice. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In my head, I heard Miss Willis again, just as I heard her in my worst nightmares. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He was dreaming, a bad dream I could tell, a nightmare. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Seven thought being a Spare was her worst nightmare, but she had never even considered being a Forever Witchling. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Yeah, I figured any nightmare would be better than my reality. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z He was sound asleep before the spring night was quite dark, but excessive fatigue, like excitement, was a forerunner of the nightmares that had plagued him for the past year. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z At last she closed her eyes and drifted into a nightmare. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A trip to a barber shop would have been a nightmare. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Lord Rickard Karstark, gaunt and hollow-eyed in his grief, took his seat like a man in a nightmare, his long beard uncombed and unwashed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z So I go to bed and, sure enough, within a few hours I awake from a nightmare where that old woman from District 4 transforms into a large rodent and gnaws on my face. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z This wasn’t the nightmare he had expected it to be. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It was a long night during which the nightmares, like a herd of wild horses, trampled through my fevered mind. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to wake up from this nightmare. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Eventually, in an attempt to avoid his nightmares, he began to read, late at night, which was when his motionless body felt most restless, his mind agile and clear. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Trust me, it’s not a dreamworld. Not by a long shot. It’s more like a nightmare.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “Whose palace? And is Dalmatia where those Dalmatian dogs come from? That 101 Dalmatians movie—I still have nightmares.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then John Worth had to go and ruin it all by having a rip-roaring nightmare. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z He stuttered, and I sweated through horrifying nightmares. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She imagined that the destruction was only a reflection in the fountain, a harmless video image, but the nightmare continued in full vivid scope. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He hoped the nightmares that still plagued him would eventually fade away. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z When I was asleep, the nightmares just kept on coming. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z What happened in my nightmare—drifting, drowning, dying—that actually happened to me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z And though she had gone beyond breathing, the realization choked her, like when she woke from a nightmare and couldn’t get air. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Even when we weren’t living in one room, I heard Pop’s nightmare groans, heard him and Ma arguing about money. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z The destruction of the temple of philosophy was not, for him, an historical event; it was a personal experience, the moment when he had awakened from a nightmare. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Almost every night, he shouted himself awake from nightmares in which he pictured one disaster or emergency after another. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The silence of this part of the city is eerie; it feels like a nightmare. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It’s the stuff of nightmares—and precisely what Gideon had said was happening. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The city seemed to be awakening after a long, inescapable nightmare. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I stroked his back gently, soothing him, chasing away the nightmare. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z So, the first time Mom saw Auggie and finally started understanding my nightmare situation was when she opened that large envelope with my class picture in it. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Over at Red Gate I can hear Will crying from a nightmare. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Scrabbling through a nightmare of compacts and pencils, she pulled out a prescription bottle, held it to the light, tossed it into the trash can and selected a new one. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Like a long dream that deteriorated into a nightmare. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Only Cinder looked back, a hint of anger in his nightmare eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She stops, and I realize that the Augurs must have forced her to face some foul hallucination, something equal to my nightmare battlefield. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z But back on the ground, he was dogged by nightmares filled with the faces of the men who died. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He looked around, taking it all in: this place that he only knew from his worst nightmares. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I was worried about what to do when my nightmares and migraines took hold of me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Ever since his trip beneath Rome with Piper and Percy, fighting those twin giants in the hypogeum under the Colosseum, most of his nightmares were about basements, trapdoors, and large hamster wheels. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was dark and hot, and the alien whine of a million manic bees reverberated through the room like something out of a nightmare. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The Pretoria government paid no attention to such facts in its mad pursuit of its homeland nightmare. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They only stopped when Percy, apoplectic with rage, told them he was going to write to Mrs. Weasley and tell her Ginny was having nightmares. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “While Christians kneel before a white man! They are the flunkies of a foreign god. They are the nightmare of all non-white people.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And knowing you’d stumbled from one nightmare into another—and how do you find your way back to the real world? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Not the terrifying buzz of nightmares, not the low buzz of sleepy bees, but the buzz of the people of Bone Gap, all of whom seemed to be gathered in Finn’s front yard. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z My nightmares and chewed fingernails pale by comparison. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z They looked shell-shocked—the younger ones especially—as if they hadn’t fully grasped the unfolding nightmare. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z ‘A recurring nightmare. Every night since Salim . .. went.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Evidently, it was a nightmare that they both wanted to forget. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The nightmare wasn’t filling him up, squeezing his chest, dragging him down. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z A teacher came to school hysterical one morning, saying she had had a nightmare about me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I’m walking into my worst nightmare, a space of complete darkness without Mom, Dad, or Javier to hold my elbow. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The problem with the falling nightmare is that even after waking up, I’m still scared, as if there’s more to come. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z It sucks how I didn’t dream, but no nightmares either. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z With very little effort, my life rapidly morphs into a nightmare. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z When I traveled, I brought backup outfits, anticipating shifts in weather and schedule, not to mention nightmare scenarios involving spilled wine or broken zippers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She willed the nightmare to become a harmless reflection. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Shin remembers little of his time in the hospital, except that the nightmares slowly diminished. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z This is turning into one of those repeat- ing nightmares where you keep falling but never hit the floor. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z They felt now like people just awakening from a nightmare. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z I know my sister died, and that’s been a living nightmare for everyone, but is there something else I don’t know? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Turns out, my need to find a cure for nightmares outweighs my fear of maniacs. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The train ride to Soweto was a living nightmare. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In the few hours allotted to sleep each night, C.P. battled nightmare visions of betrayal and retribution. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The nightmare woke him up later that night, his sheets and T-shirt damp with sweat, his blood pulsing so hard through his skin that it felt like something was shaking him from the outside. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “A nightmare? You were screaming,” my mother says, her face as gray and voice as unnerved as it was last night. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z May Mother never find out that I was piloting her precious Saturn on instructions from Rain, the face of so many of her childhood nightmares. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z When light suddenly burst into the car, Gabriel sprang up as one would do in the middle of a nightmare. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z He closed his eyes and told himself it was a nightmare. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z “Go away,” Conor whispered into the darkness of his bedroom, trying to push the nightmare back, not let it follow him into the world of waking. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z ‘The dream was nothing. You got to be asleep to understand why it was such a nightmare.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Hours after my battle, I dream my nightmare. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z But as soon as the peach rolled out of the garden and began to go down the steep hill, rushing and plunging and bounding madly downward, then the whole thing became a nightmare. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z I thought I was in some kind of nightmare, and the fact that I had thought white people never rode buses because of all the cars they had made everything the more unreal. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Each night, as I laid my head on the pillow, bomb shelters were my topic for thoughts, nightmares, dreams, and planning. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z His life descended into a nightmare of drug dependency and chaos, complete with the growing risk of death by overdose. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z ‘I’ve just had the most frightful dream! It was a nightmare! It was awful!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The Americans’ faces were angry and confused, like they were sleepwalking through a very annoying nightmare. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Those nights when I’d shudder awake from a nightmare, I’d remember my grandmother’s instruction to make a sign of the cross in the direction of my window. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The helm reached into my mind and ignited my worst nightmares, my most secret fears. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He called out in terror when he saw that the tendrils of the nightmare had wrapped themselves around his legs. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Still, never in my wildest nightmares could I have imagined myself living with a refugee from Bizarro World. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Bridge didn’t think it would be a nightmare to repaint everything for the spring play. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z "You wouldn't believe it. It's like a wonderful nightmare." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Men with absolute power over their slaves acted like creatures we would otherwise meet only in nightmares. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She knew she was dreaming—a dream within a dream, or rather, a dream within a nightmare—but, like everything at the castle, the sounds and smells felt real. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I have nightmares about the other land, the silence of when Papa was alive. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z There, waiting, ready to run again, I had the worst part of my nightmare. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I see his fingers digging into the sand as he reassures himself that whatever nightmare he inhabited wasn’t real. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Any other time, he might have said something about the impossibility of what had happened, how it was some kind of horrible nightmare that they, that she, needed to forget. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z In the dream, the nightmare, Crow had given him a letter, but the only thing he found in his bathrobe pocket this morning was a Westing Paper Hankie. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Nina and Aleksandr had been taken prisoner behind enemy lines by the Germans: the Soviet soldier’s worst nightmare. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It was like standing at the end of the world, almost like being alive and awake in his nightmare, the screaming, the emptiness— A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Hazel woke from a nightmare, thinking, What is that smell? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z My mother has given me pictures to dream—nightmare babies that recur, shrinking again and again to fit in my palm. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z "He must have had a nightmare. Stumbling about among all those creepers." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z That we’d just survived a nightmare of our own barely registered. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I most definitely don’t want Mom to know about the nightmare. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The nightmares were so terrible that Celaena barely slept, despite her pain and exhaustion. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z My thoughts were hazy, still twisted up in dreams and nightmares; it took me longer than it should have to realize where I was. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z These dirty, devil things that would give the sweet Baby Jesus doll nightmares in his cradle? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A human rights nightmare is occurring on our watch. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When I told Grover my nightmare, he started twirling his finger in his shaggy leg fur. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z In the nightmare of the dark, / All the dogs of Europe bark. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He had been afraid of Miss Mellitt, she had come into his nightmares, and even now, when he was at school, doing something, miles and years away from her, he remembered. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z In her rare moments of lucidity she understood that this was not a nightmare and that she was not there by mistake. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Tears were tumbling down his cheeks and he couldn’t stop them, couldn’t even wipe them away because the nightmare’s tendrils were binding him now, had nearly taken him over completely. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z With the tear in the sky making everyone’s lives down here a living nightmare, I wasn’t even sure I should go home, not without trying to help. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Id only done this once before, and I still had nightmares about it. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z In fact, he didn’t feel the nightmare there at all. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z No matter how sedulously Ben and Mary Anne prepared for the nightmare, nothing could ameliorate their discomfort at entering a new high school for their annual pilgrimage among strangers. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In his head it was clear: He wanted to give her a haven from her nightmares—to be a haven from them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She was too steeped in the landscape of nightmare even to question it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was then that Clara began having nightmares, walking in her sleep, and waking up screaming. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His best friend accidentally shot himself, and to this day, he still has nightmares about his death. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It looked like it came straight out your worst nightmare. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The nightmare is over; we are free at last. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Until there is justice, the nightmares will never stop.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z A huge pink creature soared over the reservoir—a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade nightmare blimp with wings. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I couldn’t square my grandfather’s idyllic stories with this nightmare house, nor the idea that he’d found refuge here with the sense of disaster that pervaded it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Shadow waited for the buffalo man to say something more, to explain what gods were, to explain the whole tangled nightmare that his life seemed to have become. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z And the terror was different from any other kind he’d ever known : the terror of a walking nightmare. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In terms of a spreading epidemic, Farmer and Goldfarb knew this was a nightmare. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z She soon possessed a thick file of nightmare accounts. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I had looked carefully at every hideous, nightmare face just to be sure. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z This is the Loid Commander’s Tower, it’s guarded day and night, this couldn’t happen, it’s a dream, I’tp having a nightmare. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I drift off only to be roused by nightmares that have increased in number and intensity. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “You lied to me. My nightmares were right!” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Waking from this nightmare, Descartes prayed and tried to compose his spirits. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They’d been the creatures of her nightmares with their white wolves and their cruel knives and the horses they bred for battle with Grisha. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The creature she’d laid eyes on had been a thing built from nightmares, a mass of raw pink skin stretched tight over tendons and bone. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I hated rehashing everything—and I was a little bit afraid she would want to link my bad dreams to my feelings about my mother—so I vowed to keep any future nightmares to myself. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Lourdes has nightmares about going back, even to visit, without residency documents. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Zu woke with a gasp, coming up from her nightmare for a long drag of air. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Kate said, “It’s all right, Mother. It’s all right. You had a nightmare. You had a bad dream.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z My father’s long imprisonment began to wreak daily nightmares on everybody in the house. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But at night some of us would wake up from nightmares, sweating, screaming, and punching our own heads to drive out the images that continued to torment us even when we were no longer asleep. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He began experiencing severe nightmares from which he awoke screaming. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z That night, I have the same nightmare I’ve been having for months—the one where someone comes at me from behind and tries to strangle me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I want to sleep in my bed and wake up from this nightmare. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Her scalp tingled, as if the thoughts in her brain were agitating to get out: a statue...Athena...Greek and Roman, her nightmares, and her argument with her mom. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Until I turned twenty-five years old, I had a recurring nightmare of the look on his face as he came around that corner. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z This strange place was a nightmare, a wasteland of rubble covered with brown slime. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z My worst nightmare was that I would open the locker one morning and find that all three had spilled or, worse still, had split. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Ugh. It’s never an appropriate time for a nihari joke. I had nightmares about sucking out the marrow from those bones.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z She hadn’t had any nightmares like everyone else, but she found it hard to fall asleep in the bed all by herself. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “If that’s too personal you don’t have to tell me. My family getting their call was a nightmare and I’m not a big fan of talking about that either.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “It’s mighty hard. All the time I was in school, I had nightmares over Latin.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In my nightmares I am alone on a train, heading into the wilderness. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I panicked, looking for a way out—out of the truck, out of Plaszów, out of this nightmare that had already swallowed my parents and everyone I loved. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “He would be out of place in a nightmare now.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Worst of all were the times when I couldn’t fall asleep quickly because Sabrina cried out during the nightmares caused by her abuse. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Her strokes are broad and gentle, the colors muted; Lelia says anatomically correct pictures give the kids nightmares. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I answered, “No, ma’am,” and got my stomach ready to hear about Miss Hill biting the dust in some way that was going to give me nightmares. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z ‘This is a bad bad dream! It is worse than a bad dream! It is a nightmare!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was then that Alba entered the nightmare that her grandmother had apparently not seen on her astrological chart when she was born, and that Luisa Mora had seen in a fleeting premonition. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Dear Diary, Today I went to the Croatian Hall with Zlata and met a little boy named Tony who lived a nightmare because he is Croatian. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Following the bus was a nightmare; it stopped too often, too long, and it was difficult to tail it, hide, and watch to see if she got off. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z My senses were numb with anger; I moved about as in a nightmare, obeying every order. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was more peaceful than the nightmares that tormented his sleep. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z As the BFG headed back to the cave, he said quietly, ‘We certainly was putting that nightmare to good use though, wasn’t we?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I sleep a little,” she said, “in between nightmares.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z For a few fragile seconds, she remained as detached as the clouds overhead, suspended in an intermediate space between nightmares and dreams, where reality couldn’t reach. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Maybe, after this nightmare we’ve wrought, we can find a way forward together. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z In his nightmares, she left him, but other dreams were better. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Hopefully not a nightmare like my current situation. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Among them was Jaime, feeling as if he were in the middle of a nightmare. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z If she was, was she fending off nightmares on her own? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z During the night, when he was overcome by sleep, he had nightmares of small brick houses in flames. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And that led to the worst part of the nightmare, for Mr. Loomis, weak as he was, was trying to shout in anger and in dread, and it came out as a horrible, thin whimper. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He fell forward onto his chest from the weight of her and the nightmare’s fists pulling on her. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z He thought of the voice that plagued his nightmares. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Dieldrin, besides its immediate consequences, can have long delayed effects ranging from “loss of memory, insomnia, and nightmares to mania.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was a nightmare of educated guessery, complicated by the fact that I had no way to make accurate measurements. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z At first he would keep waking up with nightmares and have to turn the light on to get himself clear again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A face that now looms in my nightmares. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I stop trying to sleep after my first few attempts are interrupted by unspeakable nightmares. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Look. I’m not up to reliving that nightmare for the school paper, okay?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I thought he might shift from the self-effacing Abnegation leader to the nightmare I knew at home, that he might lash out and reveal himself for who he is. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I want to know who I can blame, Mama, for the nightmares that wake me up every night now. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They were racked with guilt for being alive, racked with pain in their heads and fear of ghosts, racked with nightmares and strange compulsions, punishments for being alive when the others were dead. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Afraid to go back to sleep lest I have another nightmare, I stayed awake, peering at the quivering blackness through the hole. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, in his nightmares, he walks the tunnels of the mines. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Like nightmares, dreams were insidious things, and didn’t like being locked away. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I slept and woke up shouting from the old familiar nightmare of men and women closing in on me, shuffling toward me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I needed to get outside now, before the girls rushed headlong into another nightmare brought on by a lack of caution. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z That night Neel slept fitfully, waking from a nightmare about a pack of vultures tearing the cub’s body to shreds. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z For many lads—often the best and brightest—school is a nightmare. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was dreaming her, and...it was not a nightmare. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Is it lame to say I think I’m stuck in a nightmare? I always thought everyone was being so dramatic when they said that: ‘This feels like a nightmare.’ They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The man lay on his side, half catatonic, whispering and drooling. writhed under her sheets, moaning softly, in the grip of some nightmare. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I wake screaming from nightmares of mutts and lost children. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z One night she’d have a nightmare about old Shotgun Cheatham sitting up in his coffin, and on the night after that she’d dream that Grandma’s big old tomcat was jumping at her. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The image of myself falling into darkness flashes into my mind, the same image that I now carry with me in my nightmares. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z If Mini were here, she could make an enchantment of a giant shoe and squash the nightmare creature. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z How many days had passed in this way, living from nightmare to nightmare? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Because I know how easy it can be for everything to suddenly become a nightmare. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z In my nightmare, I’m dressed in the silk bridal gown, but it’s torn and muddy. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She used to do this when he had nightmares. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “You wake up screaming In the middle of the night Was it a nightmare? Or was it too much delight?’ Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z His chilling stare haunted me and filled not only my waking hours but my nightmares. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Now, huddled inside the ragged quilt, she was sucked down, in spite of herself, into a black whirlpool of slumber, where nightmare phantoms whirled with her, nearer and nearer, toward some unknown horror. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z It was so sudden, and so horribly unlike anything that had ever happened to Digory even in a nightmare, that he let out a scream. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Oh, I hope he still thinks I’m pretty, she thought; those nightmares took a lot out of me. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It was Skathis’s monster, shaped now not of nightmare, but grace. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I feel like ants are running all over my skin, like I know I’m in a nightmare and I’m clawing to get the ants off me, but all I’m doing is hurting myself. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Seeing it all now—the beast matched with the sounds—Thomas couldn’t think of any nightmare that could equal this hideous thing coming toward him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “You didn’t have any nightmares last night,” he says. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They stared about, wanting to go back because this could be only a nightmare, it was quite insane. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z And then this terrible F, a routine test turning into a nightmare. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Things were so much easier back then, when nightmares were only in dreams. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z A cold wind from my nightmare blew through my mind. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I got the suit and brought it in, but a few minutes later that particular nightmare ended, and he was in another, even worse, perhaps brought on by the sight of the suit. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Thomas had a strong feeling it wasn’t a way out of their nightmare; he just hoped it didn’t lead to another pack of Grievers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Still, her resolve to stay in the United States brings a new nightmare. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I feel groggy today, my mind stifled and my heart still pounding from another round of nightmares, and my limbs are weighed down as I drag myself out of bed. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z What little sleep I got was sabotaged by a familiar nightmare, one in which I wander through a stinking, body-strewn battlefield. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It was something out of an ancient god’s nightmares. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z They’d been eating away at me almost as much as the nightmares. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It didn’t fit on the pavement, so it walked on the road instead, passing through parked cars as if it was spun out of nothing but nightmare and imagination. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z When she was small and prone to nightmares—those terrible screams in the night—Cecilia used to go to her room and wake her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I had a nightmare just before dawn and wasn’t able to get back to sleep. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It was the empty sound of his nightmares; even the voices he recognized. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z But it wasn’t Uncle C’s, like in my nightmares. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Everything suggests that the man is going to kill his wife but at the last moment, something she screams out in a nightmare makes him recall something that happened to him during his childhood. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z He had screaming nightmares and won fist fights with Huple’s cat. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z But for keyboard instruments, on which the pitches of each step are firmly fixed, these nineteen subdivisions were a nightmare. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He still sleeps most of the time, and when he wakes up it is because of a dream, a nightmare. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z None of them had talked much since the nightmare walk back from Port Authority. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I opened my eyes and woke up to the perfect ending of the worst nightmare any person could ever have; ’twas the cap’n standing o’er me with fire in his eyes. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z The idea would almost be beautiful if this weren’t such a nightmare. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Seeing the enemy as a human. A general’s ultimate nightmare.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z We were always supposedly nearing the end of our legalization nightmare. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z A Republican senator from Pennsylvania called the Mercury capsule-Atlas rocket pairing “a Rube Goldberg device on top of a plumber’s nightmare.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They create the modern nightmare of institutional life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I had never been like the other girls in my cabin at Thurmond, who cried every night, and then again every morning when they realized their nightmare had been real. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z This nightmare—because it was surely a nightmare, of course it was—was so different from the other nightmare. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z But I’m pretty sure every single time he stops himself from crying, his nightmare factory just goes and creates another doozy for when he falls asleep. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The roads offered the wildest drives that I had ever known: nightmare traffic, brakes squealing, skidding cars, and horns blowing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z My nightmare hadn’t scared them awake, so I had plenty of time to replay it. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z This is him as a boy, waiting every day for his brother to come back, falling asleep every night to the same nightmare, trapped forever wondering if he had only done one thing, anything, differently. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But they were slipping from his grasp, and she was getting heavier and heavier, the nightmare monster pulling harder and harder. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z If I had a nightmare about those gunshots that took Dad, Trey would run into my room and comfort me until I fell asleep. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She thought back to the time before lull, and the onslaught of nightmares that had prompted Great Ellen to start brewing it for her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Please, God, I want this nightmare to end. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Then DDT promised to “obliterate the nightmare” of codling moth outbreaks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Gram’s cottage, with its comfy, over stuffed couches and tabletops cluttered with knickknacks, is probably her worst nightmare. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z It makes you think you’ve always felt like this, and there’s no place to go but down, where it slowly, ravenously digests your will, distilling it into the ebony crude of nightmares. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I’m having trouble sleeping, and it’s not just the drinking now, it’s the nightmares. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z That evening the first of the nightmares about the incident began. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z An ill-bred falcon, who was subject to the vice of screaming, stood hooded and motionless on a perch like a parrot’s, brooding in some ancestral nightmare. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z People experienced a sense of invulnerability and well-being by attending rap sessions, outdoor flute concerts; enjoyed having an official excuse to compare nightmares or break down in public. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I soak in this bizarre nightmare, scanning the camp and what appears to be the only entrance gate—heavily guarded—and the watchtowers and the razor-wire fence as far as I can see. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z As hard as I want to not think about the nightmare, here I am, lying in bed and thinking about it. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I stare at their faces next to each other on the pillow, so quiet and peaceful, before any of Bryce’s nightmares have had time to grab hold. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The diminished pain in my leg is such a relief that I try to savor it, but pieces of my nightmare still linger in my mind, too fresh to put away. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “It was just horrible. So spidery. I’ve never had such a spidery nightmare in my entire life.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Mrs. Galley, I can’t sleep at night I have this nightmare over and over again. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time I turned ten, though, all those nightmares had pretty much gone away. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z “She needn’t have been afraid. Most ghosts are only nightmares. Somebody should have held her and wiggled her ears to wake her up.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Not just passing bad dreams, but the full-blown, heart-pounding, wake-up-screaming kind of nightmares I used to have when I was a little kid. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z He clung to the victory goddess like he used to cling to his pillow when he had nightmares as a kid. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z After Reyna’s nightmares, that hit a little too close to home. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “Nice enough until you have a nightmare,” Sarai had replied, grudging. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z For whatever reason, his nightmares didn’t bother him as much. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z So began what Herbie later on in his life would refer to as “that nightmare summer.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “These are my orders: You will not speak of your nightmares to anyone else, and you will instruct your brothers to do the same. Do you understand?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In the first weeks of January 1953, that nightmare seemed to come true: Pauling and Robert Corey wrote a paper proposing a structure of DNA and sent a preliminary copy to Cambridge. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was then that her nightmares turned against her, and she started needing lull. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z We don’t talk unless my nightmares are so bad that he is already beside me when I wake up. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The comers of his vision began to blur, growing hazy as an old nightmare returned to him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “In your dreams. No, wait. Not your dreams, my nightmares!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z This meant she was about to experience her worst nightmare: Heathrow -----➤ JFK -----➤ Atlanta. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Another cannot shake a nightmare: back home, her little girl is killed, and her little boy runs away in tears. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “When I finally recovered, what happened in the cellar seemed like a dream, a nightmare—not something I’d really done.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “Did you just shush Gum Baby? Didn’t you hear the introduction? Being a nightmare and all that, and you locking your door? Did...did that not make sense?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z A single surgery and some injections would end the nightmare and give my parents back their daughter, their Calliope, intact. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was exactly the same as it had been when this whole nightmare started. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I had begun to fall into some sort of nightmare. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z No. No. He was never going to say what happened in the real nightmare. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z I expect to have nightmares, but I must be too tired, because my mind stays empty. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He fell asleep, and in his nightmare, the rumble of thunder became the laughter of the earth goddess Gaea. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z ‘First I had a horrid nightmare, then the maid dropped my breakfast and now I’ve got a giant on the piano.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Every time Jason woke up from that nightmare, his face was beaded with sweat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z When I come to, Ma tells me that Kim and Chou were also sick and had the same nightmares of being tracked down and killed by monsters. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She wanted to talk about her nightmares, but she decided to wait until Nico woke up. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z To Kaori, the solution was clear: overcome your fears, and the nightmares go away. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “They drown before I can reach them. It is my nightmare, my destiny, my fate to search endlessly for them by night only to find them drowned with the sigh of morning.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “I was having a nightmare when you woke me up,” he admitted. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z ‘Oh, but I don’t want you to give the Queen a nightmare!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like some horrible nightmare where she was walking the red carpet of a fancy movie premiere in an aluminum-foil hat and rubber-duckie rain boots, and why was this happening to her? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I had dreams about Sing Sing while I was there and since, though oddly I never had nightmares until the book was published and I was talking about it every day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For a second after I asked the question I thought the sickness had come back on him, because his eyes got a wild look again, as if he were seeing a nightmare. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She had wanted Sarai to visit on him such a cataclysm of nightmares as would shatter his mind and leave him spinning through darkness forever. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But even when her nightmares seemed so real—down to the scratchy carpet of their apartment that would always be caked with dust—they were nothing more than flimsy images shot through with fear. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I once had a nightmare where i was awake but couldn’t move. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “It’ll be a nightmare to prime all of this when we have to repaint for the spring play, but for now it will be very cool.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z “Does he really come to your room when he has a nightmare?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z But of course sleep only brought more nightmares. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “That’s just plain old nature. I mean ghosts and dead children and crazy people—things that give me nightmares. I want to leave, like you.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z It was a three-dimensional nightmare version of some of his own drawings. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z The privatization of prison health care, prison commerce, and a range of services has made mass incarceration a money-making windfall for a few and a costly nightmare for the rest of us. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The last stalk might have been a nightmare, but to the Wart it was heavenly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Vividly he imagined Piggy by himself, huddled in a shelter that was silent except for the sounds of nightmare. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z If it were a nightmare, it would have to have started somewhere before I got bad; it would be like a yearlong dream. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z It was hard enough for poor Sam, tired as he was; but for Frodo it was a torment, and soon a nightmare. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I don’t know why I watch this yearly ritual in our backyard; my nightmares persist long after the bloodstains on the grass have faded. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He awoke straight from one nightmare into another. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My brothers made my life a living nightmare with their taunting. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z And then she sat there, never having felt this brittle before, waiting to calm down, waiting for the nightmare to end, slowly and desperately and like a little child shaking her head. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z With trembling legs, Bigger rose, feeling in the grip of a nightmare. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Sorry. I slept in after the mutilated-tongue nightmares kept me up half the night.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The nightmare monster gave a roar and pulled harder, its fists straining around his mother’s body. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z I think of the nightmare battlefield—Demetrius and Leander and Ennis. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The men streamed by: nightmare army, faces gray and cold, sick. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though I wasn’t having a lot of nightmares anymore, the fact that I had started having nightmares again really worried Mom. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z These past days, hunted by nightmares, she’d felt their presence even while she was awake. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She would tell them about parents who came to comfort their children when nightmares woke them, and they would all go still and quiet, listening with a terrible intensity. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I woke up in my bed the next morning, disoriented and panicked, as if I’d had a nightmare. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “I saw her in Zu’s nightmare. They got separated.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Even in her sleep, the pain seeped in, warping her dreams into nightmares so vivid she couldn’t remember where she was when she awoke. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z If the gods heard, they mocked his hopes, for the nightmare they sent was worse than any wolf dream. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Dear Diary, For many, it’s the start of a new day, but for me, it’s the continuation of a nightmare. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I wonder if she’s still afraid of him, in the way that I’m still afraid of him, like a nightmare that keeps resurfacing during the day. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The next few seconds were a twisting nightmare of rushing water and exploding glass. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Balder went to the gods and he told them of his nightmares. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He was hella fun to watch and listen to, and I loved that he was the same color as me, but in the nightmare, he looks scary as hell—all red-eyed and gray-skinned and rotten-toothed. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z The whole previous night feels like a feverish, terrible nightmare. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There were two vehicles: a dusty red car with blue doors in the front and, twenty feet behind, the white van of our collective nightmare. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z She didn’t admit it, not even to Melanie, but she was having nightmares about the first, day of school. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Even getting on top of those trucks was a nightmare. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z But all I have are broken visions and this new nightmare. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z After all, she’d been in the spotlight before, and while it had been exhilarating in some ways, it had been a nightmare in others. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Sometimes when she had nightmares, a thunder and lightning storm would rise up out of nowhere, illuminating the sky like a lullaby created just for her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I stood trying to think of a neutral course that would resolve this quickly risen nightmare, but my tongue would not move. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Surprising—in all of my nightmares about them finding out the truth, I had pictured Chubs taking it the worst. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z And will those dreams be any better than the nightmare of my dead father telling me to kill my uncle, who, by the way, is now married to my mother? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He supposed it made sense in hindsight that a nightmare had impersonated the truth, then settled in his mind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z As it approached, he saw a nightmare face suddenly shine as it caught the light. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps he was still waiting for his nightmare to end. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Then she said, “Your mother is alone. We shall send her nightmares. We shall scream at her in her sleep!” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z His voice came floating like an echo from a distant mountain so that I thought I was having a nightmare. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It got to a point where I was afraid to go to sleep because I didn’t want to have another nightmare, so then I started sleeping in my parents’ bed. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z In her life ever after she would have nightmares of her time in that hold, and she would wake up screaming with the taste and stench of the place in her throat. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “Those were the days,” she would murmur, telling Ophie stories that sounded like nightmares even to her young ears. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z First the nightmare: I’m running down a long corridor, half blinded by the swirls of dust. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z I live in his nightmare, no less real for being invisible. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But that is a nightmare for a kid like me. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z He did not believe the version of the massacre or the nightmare trip of the train loaded with corpses traveling toward the sea either. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z When he finally went to bed, the nightmares returned. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Had bad nightmares in the daytime and screamed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And it is the way of magic and nightmares to choose those almost-but-not-quite moments and wait. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z There are freshmen battling with shepherds’ crooks from the prop table, which—I’m not going to lie—look exactly like the old-timey hooks from Simon’s nightmares. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z I enter a nightmare from which I wake repeatedly only to find a greater terror awaiting me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “I think some of them might finally manage to purge me from their nightmares soon,” Alex says. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The aspect of the beast— nightmare, after all. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z You must tell the truth or you will never leave this nightmare, the monster said, looming dangerously over him now, its voice scarier than Conor had ever heard it. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “I’m so sorry, I completely forgot. Traffic is going to be a nightmare.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z It looked like an experiment gone terribly wrong—something from a nightmare. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Not only had he let Hagar stab him; he had let the nightmare witch catch him and kiss him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Darling! It's Debs! It's okay! It's a nightmare! Only a nightmare!” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z My lip curls, but otherwise I keep my expression as masklike as I know how, as cruel and cold as the face that reoccurs in my nightmares. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They spoke of the adder as if it were a reptile that was half legend, half nightmare. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Dad craftily installed bags under each toilet seat, which we are to throw out after using, like a giant camping nightmare. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z A nightmare of me crouching somewhere listening to the enemy above. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I squeezed my eyes shut, sending the tangled nightmares back to the corners of my mind, then opened them to continue to examine my surroundings. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Clara woke a little before it, having had an apocalyptic nightmare of exploded horses, cows hurled into the sea, people crawling under stones, and gaping caverns in the earth into which whole houses were falling. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m thirsty, and I’m angry, and I think maybe I’d rather face the nightmares than this, after all. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I don’t know for sure, but I don’t think I’ll have the nightmare tonight. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z In the middle of the host, Hades himself rode a black-and-gold chariot pulled by nightmare horses, their eyes and manes smoldering with fire. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z In a normal year, being a mentor to the tributes is the stuff of nightmares. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Bears were in good supply, and the road became a nightmare. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z And, in the nightmare, she never did see her brother again. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He scanned the compound of the Glade, this new place of nightmares where he seemed destined to live. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z After her grandmother’s death, Alba began to suffer nightmares from which she awoke screaming and feverish. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She was thinking about her nightmare—Thalia’s tree splintered by lightning, Gaea rising on the hillside and unleashing her monsters on Camp Half-Blood. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The picture was a nightmare, condensed, easily passed from hand to hand, in the forest, all whirring colour and flight. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet in his nightmare he faced it again . . . and this time the burning corpse wore Lord Eddard's features. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The grass was mostly dead, the dirt had gone from brown to gray, and the one tree that did still stand was bare and leaning like a creature over a small child’s nightmare bed. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z I blocked the doorway with my body and said something that seemed to float up from a place beyond my worst nightmares. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Besides, I came here to talk about endorsements, not my embarrassing public relations nightmares.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I said yes and proceeded to recount the nightmare of the past two months. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Nico drew his sword—three feet of wicked sharp Stygian iron, black as a nightmare. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z It’s not just because of the nightmares; it’s because I’m afraid of letting go. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z When he tosses and turns at night, I get a whiff of it and I know he’s having a nightmare. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It gave me heavy boots that she had nightmares, because I didn’t know what she was dreaming about and there was nothing I could do to help her. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The night before my first day back, I had one of my nightmares again. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Waking up to Commander Root’s bulging features is the stuff of nightmares. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z She left him alone with his worst nightmare. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I have nightmares that she has left me. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, I had the same nightmare I’ve been having since the start of school. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z This nightmare had begun three months ago, when Peris went across the river. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In fact, I want him to climb in with me, to be there when the nightmares hit tonight. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It had been something born straight from her worst nightmares, horrid. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z This was all a horrible nightmare, and he couldn’t wake up. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Heroines usually are the Kingdom of Death’s worst nightmares. They’re always barging in, waving scraps of metal around, and demanding things. No manners whatsoever.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “No, it’s not a nightmare, Mamá,” I responded. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z And he began to feel like a man in a nightmare, who stands in the path of oncoming destruction, who must move quickly—but who cannot move. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z "Perhaps it was only a nightmare," said Shasta to himself. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Sometimes he stays until the next morning, in case I have nightmares again. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He could explain it better in the daytime when he had shaken off the effects of his unremembered nightmare. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z ‘If she is dreaming about giants guzzling up little boys and girls, then what is you expecting it to be except a nightmare?’ the BFG said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But then, the night after I met Auggie Pullman, I started having nightmares again. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Grover and I crashed on the leather couches in Geryon’s living room, which was a lot more comfortable than a bedroll in the maze; but it didn’t make my nightmares any better. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I did not have any more nightmares, but I always woke confused, thinking I was surrounded by people I knew, instead of sick strangers. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I was just living with one, mine, and it was difficult, as the nightmares about what had happened continued to torment me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “It was a teenager’s worst nightmare,” someone else shouts. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel like ants are running all over my skin, like I know I’m in a nightmare and I’m clawing to get the ants off me, but all I’m doing is hurting myself. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z It sears into my mind, but I shake it off as nothing but a nightmare because Mateo would never blame anyone for anything. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z His face looks like he’s waking from a nightmare. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z But they wasn’t ’bout to give me no shelter from this nightmare. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Evelyn is in that city, and Marcus, and all the grief and nightmares and bad memories, and the factions that kept me trapped inside one version of myself. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z But I think what really got me over the nightmares were the Discovery Channel nature videos my mom brought home for me one day. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z That night, and the days and nights that followed, were a nightmare of fighting to save Lizza. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She would bolt upright, shot straight out of a nightmare just by remembering what it was: a nightmare. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The loud toll of the distant Joseph Bell brought Cluny whirling back from the realms of nightmare to cold reality. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Open cars of flowers—like convertibles in some nightmare Rose Parade—crept behind the curtained hearse. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z His nightmares, of course, were anything but restful. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Bryce had one of his nightmares last night, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at him now. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “Some days felt like we were trapped in a nightmare,” he said. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The nightmares started a month after the accident. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Hungry Joe had nightmares because he had finished sixty missions and was waiting again to go home, but he was unwilling to share any when he came to the hospital to visit. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The space between nightmares was like the silence after the snap, when you know that whatever made it is holding itself still and watching you in the dark. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There’s a type of nightmare where the ground’s your enemy. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Sitting on the side of my bed, I rub my face, as if that’ll wipe the nightmare away. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z An attacker slipped around the side—a man with a mustache—and Lazlo cut him in half with a swing, only to watch the halves of him re-form like something from a nightmare. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Sleep came at last, and with it nightmares. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Jonathan began to feel that he was walking into a nightmare, that he had entered a world other than the one he knew. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z An innocent young man is now a criminal mind, having nightmares of murders every single time. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The German haunts her: in nightmares, he’s a spider crab three meters high; he clacks his claws and whispers One simple question into her ear. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z When my mother led us out of nightmares and horror movies, I felt loved. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The times I do sleep, I have nightmares about people trying to murder me in an upside-down house or something equally weird. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Because I don’t care what I saw on that nightmare battlefield. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Twice in the night, Baba holds me when my nightmares shudder me from sleep. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z After six years I was leaving Kraków, the city of my childhood dreams, the city that had become a nightmare, and was heading into the unknown. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I wanted to fire my weapon, to destroy the nightmare around me. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I know that is crazy because Mutare is nowhere near the ocean or even a lake, but still, I had nightmares about it. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z That this nightmare life of hunger and fear that we’ve been living might be over. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z His wrestles with his own nightmares had not damaged the Kingdom. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The next thing I remember is, waking up with a feeling as if I had had a frightful nightmare, and seeing before me a terrible red glare, crossed with thick black bars. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Not nightmares so much as reliving dreams of the crash and his time in the woods. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z I am gasping for air but I don’t care, not when I’m finally escaping, not when this nightmare is finally over. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “The whole period was one prolonged, hideous nightmare.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I’m pretty sure the idea of somehow upsetting Twig was his personal nightmare. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I had experienced nightmares in the past, but they began to grow stronger—shattering images flooding back from the massacre. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Irina called it a “nightmare” bringing “shame” on the whole regiment. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I fall asleep, only to be chased in my nightmares by a screaming Mrs. Kluck riding her ice cream machine like a horse. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “I was having a maggoty nightmare about those Hopper people,” she said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z ‘She was telling her father to stop doing something. I don’t know what it was, but it gave her nightmares.’ Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Dude, me and him alone is a nightmare. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He felt like he’d woken up from one nightmare, only to be locked inside a new one. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “Things were easier when we were kids. The scariest things we had to worry about were nightmares and horror films. It’s different now.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Had a nightmare. Where I’m put in a prison camp and the Director assaults me and my parents are taken away and people die. And it’s all my fault.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z And then I went back to school, back to the nightmares. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z |
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