Quote by Douglas E. Richards

“Awake, she struggled to fill the hours until she could sleep again. But nothing she did made her feel whole. If she ate, she…

— Billie Letts

“She looked like she was waking up in a strange place—only she knew she hadn’t gone to sleep yet, and that this was actually…

— David Levithan

“She lay there with her eyes closed, as if sleep were a shy creature that might venture out if she played dead. But every…

— Frances Hardinge

“Sometimes she felt she had fallen asleep inside herself while she was wide awake working.”

— Cara Hoffman

“This realization frightened her and made her unable to sleep at night, which, in turn, frightened her more. She feared the restlessness that was…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“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

“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

“She seemed able to go to sleep whenever she wanted to, a skill I envied and did not have.”

— Neil Gaiman

“She was tired of the flaming thoughts of discontent that kept her awake at night.”

— Virginia Gaffney

“She did not want to move, or to speak. She wanted to rest, to lean, to dream. She felt very tired.”

— Virginia Woolf

“when she looked at him here in the dusk, her first and overwhelming desire, if one could call it that, was to invite him…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“The inner Min starved; she woke in the middle of the night, then lay for hours wondering what was wrong.”

— Lan Samantha Chang