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“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

“...he spent whole days and nights over his books; and thus with little sleeping and much reading his brains dried up to such a…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“The world turned itself into a better place around him.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“What might have happened to them to make them the way they were? It did not change what they now did, but it changed,…

— Sherwood Smith

“There had been a long period of time during which he remembered being very happy. But things change. People change. Change was one of…

— Nicholas Sparks

“After a night filled with more activity than sleep, he felt justified in their late awakening.”

— Vivienne Savage

“He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime.”

— Edith Wharton

“People grew. They changed, and he suddenly realized that they could change together or grow apart and it was all their decision.”

— Sophie Oak

“He lay still, his bloodshot eyes staring blankly before him, and drifted into dreams of his problems, compulsively living out dialogues, summing up emotional…

— Richard Wright

“He couldn't help but give in to the occasional temptation to replay past events in his mind, altering them, changing them from cruel to…

— Kevin Henkes

“What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all…

— Dave Eggers

“Many of those late nights, when he'd paced his apartment, his mind roaming the world he'd painstakingly created and could finally inhabit - moving…

— Adelle Waldman