Christmas-romance Quote by Kerrelyn Sparks

“The man may not be dead, but he was certainly stiff. And this had nothing to do with rigor mortis.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I wasn’t dead, I was asleep. There’s a difference, however slight. That subtle difference is between being a stiff and having a stiffy.”

— Jarod Kintz

“The moment you will be most stiff is when you die - you never get stiffer than that. So you've got to sleep well,…

— Richard Lloyd Parry

“In the old days he would not have worried, but the fighting part of him was tired now, along with the other part, and…

— Ernest Hemingway

“And yet, I was scared of falling asleep, because the moment I fell asleep my wounds would heal and right then I didn’t want…

— Matt Haig

“There was already something dead about him. He didn’t rear back in his knees any longer. He squatted over his ankles when he walked.…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“But I wouldn’t sit in my room, couldn’t allow myself to mourn and mope and weep and sleep. So I would venture out, even…

— Sarah J. Maas

“He felt all of the tension rush out of him. Without it, he could hardly stand up.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“Without answering, he pulled the comforter over his head. If only he could sleep a few days in a row. He felt sorry for…

— Ha Jin

“What little strength he had left flowed out of him and was soaked up; his bones and veins and skin held nothing but tiredness…

— Wallace Stegner

“...she had developed such a quiet comfort in his presence, like all the hurt of the world couldn't touch her. Yet, every once in…

— Sibylla Matilde

“The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard and heavy.”

— Olivia Sudjic