Diamond Quote by Elizabeth Bishop

“Sleep on your stone pillow, and let the gulls peck out your eyes while the crabs feast on your flesh. You've feasted on enough…

— George R.R. Martin

“Through the night, the black canyon groaned & heaved & gurgled, as if we slept in the belly of a coldblooded beast. I slept…

— Eowyn Ivey

“He was hungry, and his first thought was to collect a dozen or two gulls’ eggs to make a meal. But embryo chicks were…

— Knut Hamsun

Do you know the terror of he who falls asleep? To the very toes he is terrified, because the ground gives way under him,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Lost and Found A sunken chest, on the ocean ground, to never be found was where he found me. There he stirred, my every…

— Lang Leav

“One clear night while the others slept, I climbed the stairs to the roof of the house and under a sky strewn with stars…

— Mark Strand

“Just as I am drifting off to sleep, he speak again, so softly I almost cannot be certain it is not a dream. "I…

— Robin LaFevers

“He slept curled up on the hard rock more soundly than ever he had done on his feather-bed in his own little hole at…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“What are you grinning at?' Nal muttered. As if in response, the gull spread its wings and opened its shadow over the miniature ruins…

— Karen Russell

“Here on the coast of Normandy, at this hour of the morning, I needed no one. The very gulls’ presence bothered me: I drove…

— Emil Cioran

“She sleeps; she sleeps. And when she sleeps, she dreams. And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“The night sky was distended in my dreams, sinking to earth with the weight of destructive glory behind it. In one of those dreams…

— Sofia Samatar