The man was allergic to sleep.
Scott WesterfeldAnna woke with the wonderful feeling bad sleepers have when they know they have slept well. As if they have stolen something and got away with it. At these times the memories of what led up to such deep sleep keep their distance for a few seconds and those few seconds are perhaps the only time the world can ever be said to show mercy.
James MeekOur rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.
Alice HoffmanIt was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.
Kim Stanley RobinsonTags: sadness sleep anxiety restlessness insomnia
She walked down the basement steps. She saw an imaginary framed photo seep into the wall - a quiet-smiled secret. No more than a few meters, it was a long walk to the drop sheets and the assortment of paint cans that shielded Max Vandenburg. She removed the sheets closest to the wall until there was a small corridor to look through. The first part of him she saw was his shoulder, and through the slender gap, she slowly, painfully, inched her hand in until it rested there. His clothing was cool. He did not wake.
She could feel his breathing and his shoulder moving up and down ever so slightly. For a while, she watched him. Then she sat and leaned back.
Sleepy air seemed to have followed her.
The scrawled words of practice stood magnificently on the wall by the stairs, jagged and childlike and sweet. They looked on as both the hidden Jew and the girl slept, hand to shoulder.
They breathed.
German and Jewish lungs.
Tags: friendship sleep jewish beautiful the-book-thief german
I really like it when a bad dream doesn't scare you...it inspires you instead'.
Fwah StormTags: sleep dreams nightmares
Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time.
Roger ZelaznyTags: inspirational time sleep dreams sanity memory rest
Just let me sleep," she grumbled. "Let me sleep, and I'll sign a paper that you're a fucking angel.
Kim HarrisonTags: sleep angel kim-harrison pale-demon hollows
He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.
Vladimir NabokovTags: fear sleep vladimir-nabokov insomnia left-handed pnin left wrist insomniac
I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
Sylvia PlathTags: soul sleep dark sylvia-plath
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