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“...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...”

Book:A Familiar Rain

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“When assaulted by sexual knowledge for the first time, a girl plunges into a period of blackness, which is required in order to let her emotions catch up with her body. Sleeping Beauty sleeps. Cinderella waits, and while she waits she works her way through the darkness of depression. Snow White both works and sleeps before she is ready to open her eyes and find a Prince leaning over her.”

Sleep Sexuality Analysis Girls Fairy Tales Puberty Sleeping Beauty

Book:Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life

Source: Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life

“Groping blindly in the darkness, he sank between the white mounds of cool feathers and slept as he fell, across the bed or with his head downward, pushing deep into the softness of the pillows, as if in sleep he wanted to drill through, to explore completely, that powerful massif of feather bedding rising out of the night.”

Sleep Dreams Dreaming Rest Sleeping Restless Sleepers

Book:The Street of Crocodiles

Source: The Street of Crocodiles

“...the wind hums low with sweet exultation, sings its lullaby, while you sleep ...”

Sleep Wind Poetry Quotes Lullaby Sings Exultation

Book:A Familiar Rain

Source: A Familiar Rain

“I was through with sleep. I didn't like what it brought me.”

Sleep Bad Dreams

Book:Become

Source: Become

“...at dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and the cat scratches at the door...”

Poetry Nature Sleep Cat Dawn The World

Book:A Familiar Rain

Source: A Familiar Rain

“And she was not beautiful asleep. Her expression slack and not angelic. The very ordinariness of it so beautiful he felt a yearning to be something more than he was or could be. And as good a player as he was, he knew as he turned on the reel to reel and hugged the Fender once again that nothing he composed would ever be as beautiful as her ordinary sleep. Watching her he played the music of her sleeping. And by surrendering made something beautiful.”

Love Sleep Beauty Music

Book:Mortality Bridge

Source: Mortality Bridge

“I didn’t mean to snore in your ear, but I wanted to inhale all of what was wrapped up in the comforter with me.”

Sleep Snoring

Book:Book of She

Source: Book of She

“Get sleep....get sharp!!”

Inspirational Sleep Health

Author:kart

“Gen was sleeping the sleep of the heavily drugged.”

Sleep

Book:Bel Canto

Source: Bel Canto

“When a man can't sleep, he won't let anybody else sleep either. If he doesn't go off to dreamland the moment his head hits the pillow, he gets frightfully annoyed and won't stay in bed.”

Sleep

Book:The Cavalier's Cup

Source: The Cavalier's Cup

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