Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“I climbed the stairs to my apartment, lay down in my new bed and turned off the light. I waited to start crying or…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I was still convinced that I was going to wake up, or walk out of a bathroom, or look up from my homework to…

— Melissa Jensen

“When I awoke, sunlight streamed into my room through a gap in the drapes, and I blinked. I found myself sprawled across the bed,…

— Christina Boyd

“In the evening when the light is dim, I hide in bed and collect the silhouettes of reasoning which silently run across my limbs.”

— Dana Gioia

“I don’t know why we sleep or wake or why one dreams a fast bombastic image and the other memory’s faintest trace which anyway…

— Bernadette Mayer

“She never looked twice at me in the daytime, but at night, as I lay in bed and drifted toward sleep, we ran away…

— Stephen King

“After that night, which was in late December, I was completely worn out. I did not walk as often, and when I walked did…

— Lydia Davis

“In the morning, she was not sure that she had slept as much as lived a set of vivid dreams, letting them linger so…

— Colm Tóibín

“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes,…

— Neil Gaiman

“And then I sagged forward, utterly spent, emptied…light as air. I felt like I could have floated up and out…slipping through the open window…

— Josh Lanyon

“When I had woken up the next morning, I'd stared at my ceiling for a good ten minutes, reliving the dream, committing it to…

— S.C. Stephens

“I slept that night in the room I used to have when I was a little boy, with the summer wind blowing in at…

— Willa Cather