Sleep Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbon’s could hardly wait for the night to forget themselves in sleep

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“and left no doubt that Cecilia had done violence to herself.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Cecilia knew she could not go on wasting her days in the stews of her untidied room, lying on her bed in a haze…

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“Another five minutes, thought Olivia, and shut her eyes. Not to fall asleep again; but to go back as it were and do the…

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“‎All she felt was mind-numbing exhaustion, and a desperate yearning for the sweet forgetfulness of sleep.”

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“Isabel saw all their lives becoming history in units of days and nights so fatally private there was no one left for her to…

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“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…

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