“Silence then, and the scent of apple trees, and the nightmare sense of grief that comes when a man wakes again to feel a loss he has forgotten in sleep.” LossSleepGriefArthurian Author:Mary Stewart
“I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark” PainTogetherDarkSleepRoundsBlanketMercifulCan't Sleep Book:Hollow Hills Source: Hollow Hills
“To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again” TryingYearsLongMadeSoulAgeRememberTurnsSleepSilenceAirYouthWingsFingersResignationThoughts On LifeClumsyCalculatingDrowsyFledglingsLong SilenceLong Sleep Book:Hollow Hills Source: Hollow Hills