First time Quote by David Sedaris

“I wish I had the ability to sleep so peacefully, easily, but I am among the few who remain awake with the owls -in…

— Emily Curtis

“I stood there feeling the lightness of my bones, knowing now this was not only lack of sleep that had transformed my bones into…

— Anne Spollen

“I know what it's like to sleep in fear, to starve myself to be worthy, to be ashamed of my voice, to want to…

— Anna White

“I must have passed out, because one minute I was biting my bottom lip and fighting back tears and the next I was sleeping…

— Angela Scott

“The birds were singing around me, but I reflected that the very birds were strangers to me, for I did not even know their…

— Margaret Atwood

“They sleep despite noise, despite cold, despite hunger, as though desperate to stay removed from the waking world for as long as possible.”

— Anthony Doerr

“Those who wanted to sleep, not from fatigue but because of the nostalgia of dreams...”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“What I want to write is that I lay there until morning, with tear-stained eyes, a tear-stained pillow, a tear-stained life. What can one…

— Darin Strauss

“By the time I found sleep that night, back in the Hawk's Keep, my throat was tight with too many tears unshed, screams unuttered…

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

“And yet when I went to sleep, it was like I became part of some larger human experience that was utterly heartbreaking. It was…

— Sebastian Junger

“As a youth, he would lie awake listening to the sounds of the night—his sisters’ breathing, the dog at the back door—and worry about…

— John J. Winters

“Every once in a while, the darkness was too much. It had been quite some time since I had woken up in the middle…

— Dani Shapiro