Awake Quote by Jeanette Winterson Download Open image “She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.” — Jeanette Winterson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Awake Gentle Sleep Wide awake World
Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.... — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“She slept but a few hours. They were troubled and feverish hours, disturbed with dreams that were intangible, that eluded her, leaving only an… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“She lay there with her eyes closed, as if sleep were a shy creature that might venture out if she played dead. But every… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she felt she had fallen asleep inside herself while she was wide awake working.” — Cara Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Like many old people she slept lightly and had periods of wakefulness which she used for the planning of some action or actions to… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“She could stay out all night without feeling the least bit tired, but when she first awoke she felt like a slug. And” — Douglas E. Richards Copy Share Image
She walked quickly around her one-room apartment. After more than four years in this one home she knew all its possibilities, how it could… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“She was much too thin. She was serene, like someone accustomed to sickness, someone who layed back to back with it in bed.” — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“All she felt was mind-numbing exhaustion, and a desperate yearning for the sweet forgetfulness of sleep.” — William Lavender Copy Share Image
“She slept a lot and didn't dream, and on most occasions she was sorry to wake up. Everything disappeared when she was asleep.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“After nine nights must come ten and every desperate meeting only leaves you desperate for another. There is never enough to eat, never enough… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Yes. Just pass me my leg will you? It's on top of the wardrobe where he threw it, and I think my right arm… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. If what I feel is not precise than how should… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us? — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Mrs Ratlow was a widow, and she was head of English, but she still did all the cooking and cleaning for her two sons,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a clue to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don’t give up.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Reagan was sitting up at Cath's desk when Cath woke up. "Are you awake?" "Have you been watching me sleep?" "Yes, Bella. Are you… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“I had a chat with May and I had a sweet talk with April but the lovely conversation that left me to ponder was… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
If your heart isn't yet illumined Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart, Be at war continually with your carnal soul. But… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
As your awareness of the riches available to you in your everyday life grows, you are on the way to becoming the laughing Buddha.… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
“The owl,” he was saying, “is one of the most curious creatures. A bird that stays awake when the rest of the world sleeps.… — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
The shadows in the early morning don't tell much. The shadows rest at that time. So it's useless to gaze very early in the… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumbers from which they will awake in hell? Are we… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
They say 'life is precious'. To who? To you, when you're young and you've got a few dollars in your pocket. Tell that to… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and gained their… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
