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“I am not sure I sleep, but I do dream.”

Book:The Wicked King

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The Wicked King

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Holly Black

Holly Black, born on November 10, 1971, is a renowned fantasy fiction writer from the United States. Her works are known for their unique imagination and profound emotional depth, which have won her a large fan base. more

“Step outside on the terrace if you can't sleep in the heat. Don't be surprised if you find me there. The summer stars are spectacular. Just make sure you sleep near the half wall. Stay out of the sight line of the north tower. It would be scandalous if Uncle Solomon watched you sleep. You know, Islamic propriety and all. And by the way, you sleep about as quiet as an egg beater.”

Sleep Propriety Persepolis Omar Khayyam

Book:Persianality

Source: Persianality

“When you're in the throes of what feels like all-consuming pain, sleep is respite. It's your last refuge from the unrelenting guerilla attacks carried out against you by your own mind.”

Sleep Depression Insomnia

Book:I've never been (Un)happier

Source: I've never been (Un)happier

“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”

Humor Drinking

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“I looked; and the unseen figure, which still grasped me by the wrist, bad caused to be thrown open the graves of all mankind; and from each issued the faint phosphoric radiance of decay; so that I could see the innermost recesses, and there view the shrouded bodies in their dead and solemn slumber with the worm. But alas! the real sleepers were fewer, by many millions, than those who slumbered not at all; and there was a feebly struggling; and there was a general and sad unrest; and from out of the depths of the countless pits there came a melancholy rustling from the garments of the buried.”

Sleep Dead Decay Radiance Grave

Book:The Premature Burial

Source: The Premature Burial

“Whoever says sleep equals laziness is probably a bitter insomniac.”

Sleep Bitter Lazy Bitterness Laziness Insomnia Sleeping Insomniac Misconceptions Hypersomnia

Author:Joyce Rachelle

“...for if she had two characteristics in her natural state of health, they were a facility of eating and sleeping. If she could neither eat nor sleep, she must be indeed out of spirits and out of Health.”

Funny Sleep Health Eat Cranford

Book:Cranford

Source: Cranford

“Sleep is a potential pilgrimage.”

Sleep Mysticism Pilgrimage Unconsciousness

Author:Saroj Aryal

“I was born in the city that never sleeps so perhaps insomnia is my birthright.”

Sleep Insomnia City Birthright

Book:Before Snowfall, After Rain

Source: Before Snowfall, After Rain

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