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“I was sprawled out in my usual position on the couch, half asleep but entirely drunk, torturing myself by tearing memories out of my…

— Jonathan Tropper

“I was now so exhausted and sleepy that I could scarcely keep awake, although it was mid-day. So I told the Indians I was…

— Daniel Webster Jones

“I was woken by a shell-burst in the trench of sleep. Heart skipping, with eyes fighting light, my thoughts sprang up like a field…

— Will Wiles

“We ran hunched along a subterranean corridor, discarded animal bones underfoot, the ceiling brushing our heads, past things I tried not to see—a slumped…

— Ransom Riggs

“Several people toss and turn in their sleep, startled by the lines of the newspapers in their dreams, knives out, lights out, lights out,…

— H.C. Artmann

“The cushions of my friend's couch were some kind of rubberized velour, the windows were uncurtained, and at five a.m. the birds were all…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“When someone tries to put you back into a box from which you’ve already escaped, you might recall a line from the Indian poet…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I wake up at cock crow and I know where I am. I'm in the parlour. I'm in the scullery. I'm in the cellar.…

— Margaret Atwood

“I looked out over a sleepy, twinkling Manhattan as I plummeted into the night. It was wonderful and visceral, like my mind and body…

— Rob Delaney

“I wrapped the duvet underneath me to form a nice little cocoon, and managed to sleep for perhaps another hour or so, during which…

— Tom Moran

“You wake up in this here world, my sweet li'l mister, you got to wake up tough. You go out that front door tough…

— Daniel Woodrell

“It was a very special feeling to wake up in the morning, all alone in a flat, it was as though emptiness were not…

— Karl Ove Knausgård