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“The bedtime story is a genius invention. A tiny gift of wonder before you fall asleep.”

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This book is a contemplative work that delves into the intricate relationship between humans and the natural world, using fireflies as a metaphor for life's fleeting beauty and the bonds that connect us. more

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“The things that help you sleep all the way through it. Back-breaking labor might do it; or liquor. Surely a body--friendly if not familiar--lying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuisance. Whose heavy breathing neither enrages not disgusts, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet. And rituals help too: door locking, tidying up, cleaning teeth, arranging hair, but they are preliminaries to the truly necessary things. Most people want to crash into sleep.”

Relationships Sleep Loneliness Relaxation Rest Exhaustion Restlessness

Book:Jazz

Source: Jazz

“In an instant between sleep and wakefulness, an instant outside the bounds of time, that gave the sensation of being eternal, the sounds of night, like slippery fishes passing through the mesh of a net, registered themselves on Zennouba's hearing, filtering gradually into her awakening consciousness:”

Sleep Dreams Metaphor

Author:Alifa Rifaat

“…But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growlings and roarings. Oh Adam's sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good! But I will give him the only gift he is still able to receive.” He bowed his great head rather sadly, and breathed into the Magician's terrified face. “Sleep,” he said. “Sleep and be separated for some few hours from all the torments you have devised for yourself.”

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Book:The Chronicles of Narnia Official Coloring Book: Coloring Book for Adults and Kids to Share

Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Official Coloring Book: Coloring Book for Adults and Kids to Share

“I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.”

Humor Music Relationship Fame Boyfriend Grammy Lady Gaga

Author:Lady Gaga

“Sleep is divine but by no means stable; the slightest shock makes it volatile. A friend to habit, it is kept night after night in tis appointed place by habit, more steadfast than itself, protected from any possible disturbance; but if it is displaced, if it is no longer subjugated, it melts away like a vapour. It is like youth and love, never to be recaptured.”

Sleep Routine Habits Rest

Book:The Captive / The Fugitive

Source: The Captive / The Fugitive

“Autumn had lulled the garden to sleep. And its stilled slumber rested in the fact that the garden possessed no concern regarding the demands of the spring ahead as it drew peace from the harvest born of the summer past.”

Past Success Peace Sleep Confidence Future Summer Spring Autumn Rest

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I now need eight to ten hours (and still don’t feel completely refreshed). When I was younger I survived on four to six hours.”

Sleep Brain Quote Fatigue Aging Quotes

Author:J.Allen Hobson

“Exhaustion had become a bright, shining star, and now, now, now, in the beating of her heart, it wasn't even exhaustion. It became something more exalted and debased and she felt as if she was floating over it, and all she wanted was to sleep for a million years, but she could not.”

Sleep Fatigue Exhaustion

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“But what is the word for what I experienced after? What is the word for how I awoke to fear and never went back to sleep?”

Fear Sleep Rape

Book:Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

Source: Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

“Back in my muddy clothes at the door of my room, swallowing pills and lighting cigarettes, wanting to sleep but not wanting to dream, thinking this’ll be the day that I die, pictures of Paula waving bye bye.”

Fear Sleep Dreams Suicide Guilt

Book:Nineteen Seventy-Four

Source: Nineteen Seventy-Four

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