Alarms Quote by William Butler Yeats

“Though the cottage was quiet, Helen sensed the change before she was even fully awake. It was like standing in a clearing and knowing…

— Corinne Beenfield

“Helen looked up at Paris, her face wet with tears and blotchy with grief, and nodded her consent. 'Together we are chained on rocks…

— Janell Rhiannon

“Night came on, the lamps were lighted, the tables near him found occupants, and Paris began to wear that peculiar evening look of hers…

— Henry James

Mary awoke from her nightmare with a pounding heart, convinced that she had only imagined Elizabeth's cruel plot. A full moon was shining into…

— Margaret George

“He spent the next hours watching her sleep, taking in every detail of her face, of her body. The way the soft glow of…

— Dominique Wilson

The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here,…

— Louisa May Alcott

He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there…

— Walter de La Mare

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

— Ambrose Bierce

She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.

— Jeanette Winterson

“Helen's books were her friends, "the kind you invite for dinner in the middle of winter," she'd told him, " and spend all night…

— Emma Clayton

“started here. Helen walked back to her hotel slowly, enjoying the cool of the night and the beauty of Paris. The streets were busy,…

— Anna Smith

“He rolled in his bed, twisting the sheets, grappling with a problem years too big for him, awake in the night like a single…

— Stephen King