Lying Quote by Susan Sontag

“She looked like she was waking up in a strange place—only she knew she hadn’t gone to sleep yet, and that this was actually…

— David Levithan

She walked quickly around her one-room apartment. After more than four years in this one home she knew all its possibilities, how it could…

— Shirley Jackson

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

— William Lavender

“In the morning, she was not sure that she had slept as much as lived a set of vivid dreams, letting them linger so…

— Colm Tóibín

“Like many old people she slept lightly and had periods of wakefulness which she used for the planning of some action or actions to…

— Agatha Christie

“She slept a lot and didn't dream, and on most occasions she was sorry to wake up. Everything disappeared when she was asleep.”

— Markus Zusak

“What bothered her most was the ceaseless movement of her mind, so locked in activity that it allowed her no rest, not even in…

— Henry Emmons

“Sometimes she felt she had fallen asleep inside herself while she was wide awake working.”

— Cara Hoffman

“She lay there with her eyes closed, as if sleep were a shy creature that might venture out if she played dead. But every…

— Frances Hardinge

“Awake, she struggled to fill the hours until she could sleep again. But nothing she did made her feel whole. If she ate, she…

— Billie Letts

She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.

— Lois Lowry

She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched…

— Michael Ondaatje