Actual life Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“She let herself stray past the stage of sleep and even past the stage of remembering, and she wanders into the stage of soul-searching.…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

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

— Andrew Barger

“A while later, I lingered in the hinterlands of sleep. Sometimes I think there is more rest in that place between wakefulness and sleep…

— Robin Hobb

“The deep sleep of an untroubled conscience.”

— Juliana Gray

“Her mind was still tiptoeing along the boundary of consciousness, in that state of semi-waking that spins threads between dream and real, and for…

— Laini Taylor

“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

“The part of the deep night when it’s impractical to do anything useful, but sleep won’t come, so the mind swirls around in the…

— Eliza Maxwell

“Sleeping and waking, the notion of being lost, of having wandered out of the right life, kept turning up in different guises. She imagined…

— Robert Stone

“She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little…

— George R.R. Martin

“‎All she felt was mind-numbing exhaustion, and a desperate yearning for the sweet forgetfulness of sleep.”

— William Lavender

“Sleep, or repose that deserved the name of sleep, was out of question. That room, in which her disturbed imagination had tormented her on…

— Jane Austen

“She slept but a few hours. They were troubled and feverish hours, disturbed with dreams that were intangible, that eluded her, leaving only an…

— Kate Chopin