Sleep Quote by Amy Bloom

“The last thing Helen thought before she drifted off after him was that she’d slept on a beach like this before with another boy.…

— Josephine Angelini

“Helen Burns’s shoulder, my arms round her neck.  I was asleep, and Helen was—dead.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have…

— John Fowles

“Now, watching her sleep, and closing his eyes, he felt, in this particular intimacy - stowed beneath her duvet - that he was intruding.…

— Hanif Kureishi

“He kissed her forehead and drifted into an uneasy sleep, listening to the soft snoring of the creature on his chest, one he loved…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Though the cottage was quiet, Helen sensed the change before she was even fully awake. It was like standing in a clearing and knowing…

— Corinne Beenfield

“He spent the next hours watching her sleep, taking in every detail of her face, of her body. The way the soft glow of…

— Dominique Wilson

“She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little…

— George R.R. Martin

“ As he’d slept one night, suffering from some nightmare, she’d gazed down at him with tenderness. Her chest had ached with feeling for…

— Kresley Cole

“The woman who later became his wife was sleeping in his bed, her face buried in the pillows and her feet crossed on top…

— Nicole Krauss

“She was close in her husband's arms; she clung to him; whatever of strangeness and slowness and insularity she might find in him, none…

— Sinclair Lewis

“They lay side by side, the duvet cover pulled up to their necks as though it offered protection. Very little sleep followed.”

— Chris Botragyi