Shut Eyes Quote by Samantha Schutz

“sometimes the beauty of my people is so thick and intricate. i spend days trying to undo my eyes so i can sleep.”

— nayyirah waheed

“It's only at first sight,when the mind's a blank slate,that you get the purest look. So I fold the flap back,and write: Tumbleweeds. ”

— Alyson Noel

“Sometimes I wanted to go to sleep and not wake up. I’d lie awake in bed, wondering, wishing, hoping that I’d close my eyes…

— Brighton Walsh

“I wake up afraid that she will be taken and folded up in a closet like clean linen.”

— Eula Biss

“The first time I'd entered the Fold, I'd feared the darkness and my own death. Now, darkness was nothing to me, and I knew…

— Leigh Bardugo

“I walk by, seeing myself walk by on a bag, someone’s hands gripping the paper handles above my neck, my curved waist, my gleam…

— Chris Campanioni

“I slide down between the sheets beside him, like a secret letter slipped into the safety of an envelope. And dream of ancient places,…

— Lisa Grunwald

“the night after you left i woke up so broken the only place to put the pieces were the bags under my eyes”

— Rupi Kaur

“In the evening when the light is dim, I hide in bed and collect the silhouettes of reasoning which silently run across my limbs.”

— Dana Gioia

“I finally drift back to sleep. I'm in the darkness. The molecules of my mind are still scattered, and I float through oily black…

— isaac marion

“I make rope out of words and lift myself up from the depth of darkness.”

— Goli Taraghi

“Get the paper quick, maybe it's there... I read the paper with my eyes (that's not mistake: My eyes are like a pen now,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin