Quote by Lisa Rusczyk

“It was strange watching somebody sleep. It felt intrusive, as if you had caught them at their most defenseless. And as you watched them,…

— Justin Somper

“I though it was weird to see people sleeping. It scared me to see them with their eyes closed. Like they might never wake…

— Kyung-sook Shin

“Frequently I had feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering in…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She lay there with her eyes closed, as if sleep were a shy creature that might venture out if she played dead. But every…

— Frances Hardinge

“View, Pigeon,” he said, mumbling something inaudible before his breathing returned to slow and deep. I couldn’t help but watch him sleep; knowing he…

— Jamie McGuire

“Sleepiness seemed to be creeping out of the ground and up their legs, and falling softly out of the air upon theirheads and eyes.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“The souls of the upright in sleep have vision of a mysterious heaven.”

— Victor Hugo

“His eyebrows pulled in, and then he cradled me to him with both arms, still staring out the window. “I watch you sleeping a…

— Jamie McGuire

“Sleep is a vortex in your tales, swirling a person into deep places of their minds where consciousness is scared to tread.”

— Andrew Barger

“...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...”

— Homer

“I’m not certain what I notice first, the bright flickering light that illuminates the darkness underneath my eyelids, or the shrill screams that pull…

— Christine Fonseca

“He kissed her forehead and drifted into an uneasy sleep, listening to the soft snoring of the creature on his chest, one he loved…

— Thomm Quackenbush