Blood Quote by Shannon A. Thompson

“I jolt out of sleep and cold sweats creep on as they always do. Waking from one nightmare only to be haunted by the…

— Liz Newman

“It felt like all the blood in my body had swum up to my face , leaving the skin around my heart completely transparent.”

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“Unknowing, let us sleep. Chest against chest, Our breathing mingled, hand in hand without dreams.”

— Yves Bonnefoy

“I stare up into the dark with an ache in my chest that makes it hard to breathe. But not hard to think.”

— Ally Condie

“Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.”

— Jesse Jackson

“But in the night I slept and I dreamed of feathers in my lungs. So many I choked on them. I woke coughing and…

— Charlotte McConaghy

“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

“I could feel parts of my body that had never sweated before break out in nervous droplets.”

— Sarah Jamila Stevenson

“It was a hot, moist armpit of a night...”

— Mike Carey

“Every day I get up, tired from not sleeping, and I go to work and do what I do. Late at night I come…

— Kate McCarthy

“My heart nearly stopped. I could feel my pores open to release what sweat I had left.”

— Kimberly Raiser

“I looked down my blouse at my chest. "Keep your shit together," I whispered to my lungs.”

— John Green