But I was awake, sitting by the window looking down at the trailer and Mr. Zoltan's truck. I could not sleep. That is how it is with folks my age. We take naps during the day, and then we cannot sleep at night. I think that it is because God is getting us ready for the grave. Is that right? Did He ever tell you? ("The Little Stranger")
Gene WolfeTag: age sleep death grave elderly
... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.
Dan SimmonsTag: life sleep good-things defying-gravity
And then, despite all these concerns, Arnette felt her mind begin to loosen, the images of the day unwinding inside her like a spool of thread, pulling her down into sleep.
Justin CroninTag: sleep
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he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted her to be a virgin and not a virgin all at once. He wanted to know her. Intimate secrets: Why poetry? Why so sad? Why that grayness in her eyes? Why so alone? Not lonely, just alone - riding her bike across campus or sitting off by herself in the cafeteria - even dancing, she danced alone - and it was the aloneness that filled him with love. He remembered telling her that one evening. How she nodded and looked away. And how, later, when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin’s eyes, just flat and uninvolved.
Tim O'BrienTag: sleep virgin the-things-they-carried tim-o-brien
Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
Albert CamusThere is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.
Mindy KalingSo I've started wearing sweatpants to bed because I really don't need Santa seeing me in my underwear.
Jeff KinneyNever waste any time you can spend sleeping.
Frank H. KnightTag: time sleep sleeping waste efficiency
I think insomnia is a sign that a person is interesting.
Avery SawyerTag: sleep personality insomnia
Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you'll never know who u will meet in your dreams.
Joel MaddenTag: music sleep good-charlotte
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