Quote by James Joyce

“Lastly he looked at the face so caved and drawn among the folds of funeral cloth, the yellowed moustache, the eyelids paper thin. That…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He took deep breaths. He wanted to sleep. At least in sleeping, he could find a kind of peace. At least in sleeping, he…

— Alex London

“He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life…

— Madeline Miller

“He kissed her somber lips and said goodbye, and then he shut the door in her beautiful face against whatever sanity still nested in…

— R.J. Lawrence

“He closed his eyes. ' Don't, ' he said, but she could hear despair in his voice. It made her even angrier. It made…

— Holly Black

“Maybe when I'd dead, he thought. Maybe when I'm dead I'll get some goddamned sleep.”

— Shalom Auslander

“Of course, she must be sleeping, sleeping deeply, wrapped in the darkness of that strange little world of hers.”

— Haruki Murakami

“The entire time she'd watched him - waited for him to join her, even in death - her features had remained serene. A flame…

— Renee Ahdieh

“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

“And he didn't get tired or sleepy, for the beauty burned in him like fire.”

— John Steinbeck

“He said nothing; there was no expression on his face at all. His eyelids were hooded, and I could almost feel the way he…

— Alexandra Bracken

“He tried to think of death as he had done now and then, but that tired him and he dozed off. When he awoke…

— Hermann Hesse