Quote by Stephen Chbosky

“He was tired, he realized, emotionally and physically. He wanted to lie down and turn off the world and sleep for a week.”

— Allan Folsom

“I wasn’t actually sleeping, more like daydreaming with my eyes closed.”

— Abi Ketner

“She'd asked him what it was like to be in there, doing nothing but then being woken up to speak to somebody you couldn't…

— Iain M. Banks

“He’d tried to sleep, too, but that was an elusive bitch who had no use for him tonight.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I was so tired but I wouldn’t let my eyes close because I was afraid he wouldn’t be there when I woke up, that…

— Leah Clifford

“His eyes were still on me, but they no longer perceived. I stepped back, out of their sightless ambit, and paused to observe the…

— Barry Eisler

“fighting the urge to close my eyes. I was tired and hungry, a bad combination. I didn’t want to close my eyes and fall…

— Jordan Burke

He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had…

— Paul Bowles

“He'd woken me from a dreamless sleep, and I couldn't roll over and close my eyes, because in my wakefulness, I'd started dreaming.”

— C.D. Reiss

“The sleep he went back to was never the one he left.”

— Ann Patchett

“His normal pattern of sleeping was problematic at best. He would fall asleep for an hour and then be jarred awake for absolutely no…

— Brett Arquette

“It was an unnatural time to be awake, ... It meant nothing good. He associated it with emergency, bereavement, conspiracy, flight; the sad skulk…

— Robert Harris