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“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

“It's not the victim who wakes up to a half-empty bed, a half-empty house.He isn't the one who dreams that he's stiilla live, only…

— John Verdon

“All grief, anyone's grief...is the weight of a sleeping child.”

— Anne Michaels

“Suddenly exhausted, she closes her eyes and slips into nightmares again. Graveyards rising out of the ocean. Her friends’ corpses in the light of…

— Isaac Marion

“The thought burrowed into her heart as darkness fell. It coiled in her guts as she wedged herself amongst the boughs of a tree…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“I sit by the bed with an aching back, and start to cry as I pick up the notebook. I am tired now, so…

— Nicholas Sparks

“Mourning someone is hard work. It’s so hard it brings with it a tiredness you can’t even believe. You keep thinking you can sleep…

— Susie Steiner

“He would wake from sleep to miss the weight that never depress the bed next to him, remember in earnest the weight of gestures…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“His mouth open, he fell asleep, because a man always falls asleep in the end. One weeps, one shrieks, one rages, one despairs, and…

— Georges Simenon

“In this momentous night, however, he knew far more sadness than grief, and while deep sadness bruises the heart, it doesn’t leave the enduring…

— Dean Koontz

“Great sobs choked his utterance. He buried his head in his hands, and his tall frame was convulsed with emotion. I stood at the…

— George Saunders

“Sobs, heavy, hoarse and loud, shook the chairs, and great tears fell through his fingers on the floor - just such tears, sir, as…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe