Quote by Jennifer Egan Download Open image ““Even the most secure houses achieve, in deep night, a state of relative unconsciousness.”” — Jennifer Egan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I had discovered that the plainest house can crown a fantasy or daydream. An open window can be tolerated. So can an open door.… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
“In the middle of a night, hunched over my computer, with the rest of the house dark and quiet, I feel a certain moral… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
“However, do you know what? I am convinced that fellows like me who live in dark cellars must be kept under restraint. They may… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“...the sleep which lay heavy upon the furniture, the room, the whole surroundings of which I formed but an insignificant pat and whose unconsciousness… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Too many people surrender to a place of safety. That place where all they do is long to sleep so they can dream about… — Kim Fay Copy Share Image
“I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.” — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“I'm also discovering that while they seem to believe that I do not require sleep, my husband (who also doubles as their father) has… — Dallas Louis Copy Share Image
“If we can’t wake up to the fact that deep down inside we are good, then we deserve to remain asleep dreaming we are… — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share Image
“Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Inside each of us are memories, fantasies and desires for home - a shelter waiting to be built, a place of peace to be… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“The part of the deep night when it’s impractical to do anything useful, but sleep won’t come, so the mind swirls around in the… — Eliza Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Behind the desk was nothing but view-the whole city flung out in front of us the way street vendors fling out their towels packed… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I just think that, for my particular personality, feeling slightly invisible is always a help. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Between books, I have to throw out everything I did before, because the tools I've used to write the previous book will not only… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I teach intermittently, and while I enjoy it, I don't find that it's a calling for me. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Thousands of solar panels lift and tilt at the same time, in the same way. I clutch at Dad's arm: "Why are they doing… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“The seconds pass. I know what’s going on because it’s the same thing that always happens: give me something nice, something I love or… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the presence of… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
