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“She had been in one of those sleeps so heavy they leave you feeling sad, disorientated, your stomach full of tears. A sleep so deep, so dark, that you see yourself dying, that you wake up soaked with cold sweat, paradoxically exhausted.”

Book:The Perfect Nanny

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“he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted her to be a virgin and not a virgin all at once. He wanted to know her. Intimate secrets: Why poetry? Why so sad? Why that grayness in her eyes? Why so alone? Not lonely, just alone - riding her bike across campus or sitting off by herself in the cafeteria - even dancing, she danced alone - and it was the aloneness that filled him with love. He remembered telling her that one evening. How she nodded and looked away. And how, later, when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin’s eyes, just flat and uninvolved.”

Sleep Virgin Tim O Brien The Things They Carried

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, [Cloquet thought,] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.”

Sleep Good Bad

Book:Side Effects

Source: Side Effects

“What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep! (“The Testimony of the Suns”)”

Sleep Silence Apocalypse Armageddon

Book:The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

Source: The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

“Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.”

Sleep Health Balance Moderation Insomnia Sleep Disorder Immoderation

Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“No real reason for the lack of sleep, it’s a disadvantage of rotating shifts that every so often your body clock just throws up it’s hands in despair and goes to sulk behind the sofa – leaving you suffering insomnia and/or intense fatigue.”

Sleep True Fact

Book:Blood, Sweat and Tea

Source: Blood, Sweat and Tea

“I lay in bed that night, a first-time drunkard at seven years of age, pondering the punishment I knew would arrive on callused palms. In the forest, as if sensing my plight, wolves howled nocturnal laments. The magnificent lunar lullabies of my lupine brethren wooed me into a deep and cleansing sleep.”

Sleep Alcohol Punishment Wolves Heavy Metal Mark Rice Metallic Dreams

Book:Metallic Dreams

Source: Metallic Dreams

“Parfois, tu rêves que le sommeil est une morte lente qui te gagne, une anestésie douce et terrible à la fois, une nécrose heureuse : le froid monte le long de tes jambes, le long de tes bras, monte lentement, t'engourdit, t'annihile. Ton orteil est une montagne lointaine, ta jambe un fleuve, ta joue est ton oreiller, tu loges tout entier dans ton pouce, tu fonds, tu coules comme du sable, comme du mercure.”

Sleep Phantasm

Book:Un homme qui dort

Source: Un homme qui dort

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