Sleeping Quote by H.E. Bates

“Although she was in a fine humour and good spirits, she needed to recuperate. She was like a fine candle without enough wax to…

— Elizabeth Chadwick

“I blinked at her. My shades were down and the hall was dark and to me, half-drugged and reeling, she seemed not at all…

— Donna Tartt

“She sighed, she snored, not that she was asleep, only drowsy and heavy, drowsy and heavy, like a field of clover in the sunshine…

— Virginia Woolf

“She fell asleep fairly quickly that night. As she slept just a few inches away, I watched her, trying to burn her image into…

— Jamie McGuire

“The wind languished. The floral curtain ceased flapping. The moonlight streamed through, lighting up her face. It was a young, animated face. At that…

— Qiu Xiaolong

“After a night of making love, she passes out in my arms and I hold her here, never wanting to let her go. I…

— J.A. Redmerski

“Here lies resting, out of breath, Out of turns, Elizabeth Whose quicksilver toes not quite Cleared the whirring edge of night.”

— X.J. Kennedy

“...her melancholy mood had followed her home. It clung to her like perfume, filling the rooms she visited with the scent of loss. Surely…

— Elise K. Ackers

“She reached out and stroked my hair just as she had when I was a child. I closed my eyes and let sleep take…

— Hillary Jordan

“I bent over her and kissed her lips. She embraced me, and we remained like that as the light from the candle sputtered then…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“He spent the next hours watching her sleep, taking in every detail of her face, of her body. The way the soft glow of…

— Dominique Wilson

“She touched his hand, and he went stock-still. She leaned over to examine it, the top of her head brushing beneath his nose. Only…

— Anne Mallory