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“That night had been the first time I’d felt alive, the adrenaline and endorphins making my body, still recovering from disease, feel…normal. It was…

— Kim Harrison

“What is uneasy when you are awake in the daylight is terror in the dark honesty of your dreams.”

— Deb Caletti

“It was terror, I realised, the kind reserved for nightmares, when your mind has no defence against the dark. It was the most primitive,…

— Alexander Gordon Smith

“That night I was alone in my room with the lights off. The radio was on and I was staring at the ceiling. I…

— Damien Echols

“Dreams made your eyes sparkle over the possibilities of doing something new and exciting. Reality made the rest of you break a sweat in…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

“I thought that nothing enormously bad or good had happened to me during my life. All the normal things had occurred. I had lived…

— Michael Zadoorian

“I thought about death and was gripped by feelings which choked my chest and made my throat dry, a sudden pushing and shoving in…

— Kenzaburō Ōe

“Night, the time I can stop worrying about my life and drift off into the abyss, free from conscious thought. It is my only…

— Jaime Guerard

“...I wondered at times whether I would wake up and this would be just a bad dream, a nightmare that I could wish away,…

— Rabih Alameddine

“I couldn’t sleep that night, which is something that happens more often than I’d like. How it usually goes is I’m tired and lay…

— Chelsea Sedoti

“I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls to be…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“It had felt as if I were truly awake for the first time, true knowledge running like ice in my blood. The memory exhilirated…

— Patrick Rothfuss