First-sentence Quote by Diana Abu-Jaber

“If a man found his dream wife, it was because he was wide awake.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“But for now, she would lie in her husband's arms, her eyes closed and her body still against his, thinking that if this was…

— Cristina Alger

“In the morning, she was not sure that she had slept as much as lived a set of vivid dreams, letting them linger so…

— Colm Tóibín

“Her husband was asleep beside her. She could”

— Alice McDermott

“one burst after another as my wife turned in her sleep. I was a single monkey trying to type the opening lines of my…

— Billy Collins

“He’ll never know what it would be like, to wake up beside her.”

— S.J. Bolton

“It occurred to him that perhaps he ought not to have married a woman with such extraordinary eyes.”

— Julia Quinn

“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

“He wouldn't let his servants change the sheets on his bed because they still smelled like her, because he went to sleep dreaming that…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Her entire being was like a wonderful yet horrible dream he wasn’t sure he could or would want to wake up from.”

— Trent Zelazny

“After which, he visited the wife of that fool Wallace and spent midnight till dawn bouncing her from one end of the mattress to…

— A.J. Hartley and David Hewson

“His eyes opened, and he stared at me. The morning light was streaming through the window,and my hair rolled in waves over either shoulder.…

— Lisa Tawn Bergren