Children Quote by Cassandra Clare

“She laced her fingers through his. "Good night," she whispered. With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside…

— Cassandra Clare

“He cubbed her in his arms to sleep, even her demons snored that night ~”

— Tanya Gambhir

He bent down to her; their mouths met again, and the shock of sensation was so strong, so overpowering, that she shut her eyes…

— Cassandra Clare

She was on the far side, leaving two cold feet of mattress between them. He knew that she'd fall asleep like that... and then…

— Patricia Briggs

After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.

— Anonymous

He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would…

— Elizabeth Strout

She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.

— Lois Lowry

“She was sent to sleep under a velvety cloak of words, richly patterned and stitched with gold, straight out of a fairy tale, while…

— Eudora Welty

“Dark swarmed behind her eyelids and, in jerky seconds of sleep, she dreamed the dark came into her. Dark came insidious, up her nose…

— Thomas Harris

“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

“She brought a chair into the room and placed it alongside the top of his bed. Then she held his hand as he drifted…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Not knowing what to make of it, he admired her longer. The fact that she’d chosen his bed couldn’t be a coincidence, so he…

— Vivienne Savage