Body Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched....

— Janet Fitch

She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.

— Jeanette Winterson

Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and…

— Anna Godbersen

She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an exertion beyond…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

There was something striking about her posture; something about the tilt to her head. She was like a beautiful and lonely piece of art,…

— Maggie Stiefvater

She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.

— Gustave Flaubert

But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and…

— Bernhard Schlink

“He lay, often, looking at her sleeping face in the new light that fell in through the open walls of the strange house, and…

— Iain M. Banks

She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she…

— Patrick White

“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'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that…

— Kate Morton

Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up.

— Rachel Cohn