Courses Quote by John Milton

“No ordinary effort stops the wheel. In sleep it spins without resistance. Passively, falling deeper, lacking the will to activate any change.”

— Stephen Demone

“She tries to think, but the monotonous stuttering of the wheels breaks the flow of her thoughts, and the narcotic cowl of sleep tightens…

— Stefan Zweig

“Sleep takes her down fast, and very deep, whirls her through places too fragmentary to call dreams, then spits her abruptly back to the…

— William Gibson

She waits and waits, she lies awake. To be swept off her feet, by the one that makes her heart skip a beat

— Emili Elmore

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so…

— Mary Leakey

She who does not know she isa patient lies Within a tent of green, and sleeps without a sound

— James Kirkup

She took comfort in the soft occasional sound of turning pages.

— Lauren Kate

Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.

— Tom Waits

“Our nights are different. She falls asleep like someone yielding to the gentle tug of a warm tide, and floats with confidence till morning.…

— Julian Barnes

“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

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

— William Dean Howells

Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.

— Elizabeth Bishop