Annabel Quote by katherine winter

“He was tired, he realized, emotionally and physically. He wanted to lie down and turn off the world and sleep for a week.”

— Allan Folsom

“He tried to think of death as he had done now and then, but that tired him and he dozed off. When he awoke…

— Hermann Hesse

“She had been in one of those sleeps so heavy they leave you feeling sad, disorientated, your stomach full of tears. A sleep so…

— Leïla Slimani

“Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and the dying.”

— Hugh Howey

“He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the unresponsive blankets tucked too tightly round him,…

— Marcel Proust

“He was going to sleep a little while. He lay still and death was not there. It must have gone around another street. It…

— Ernest Hemingway

“And Sleep will not lie down, but walks Wild-eyed and cries to Time.”

— Oscar Wilde

“After a night filled with more activity than sleep, he felt justified in their late awakening.”

— Vivienne Savage

“He sleeps although so much he was denied. He lived and when his dear love left him died. It happened of itself, in the…

— Victor Hugo

“Death and injury lay down with him at night, and when he wakes, they are there to kiss him good morning.”

— Naomi Benaron

“He himself slept peacefully and snored aloud, yet my heart was sore for him, wicked as he was, to think on the dark perils…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Sleep looked so much like death, he saw. Every night people perished, if but for a moment. The cryopods and this hopping through the…

— Hugh Howey