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“We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.”

Sometimes Problem Lying Night Pay Wonder Awake Awake At Night Money Problem

Author:Maj Sjowall

“Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze andstone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horsesalong the edges of thick forests, and then we know that we have looked backthrough the ivory gates into that world of wonder that was ours, before we were wise and unhappy.”

Source: The Complete Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft: Necronomicon and Eldritch Tales

“I thought cocaine was a fantastic drug. A wonder drug, like everybody else. It gave you [an] energy burst. You could stay awake for days on end, and it was just marvelous and I didn't think it was evil at all.”

Thinking Ends Evil Energy Wonder Drug Fantastic Awake Marvelous Cocaine

Author:George Jung

“I read in announcements of deaths 'peacefully in his sleep' and I wonder how many of those are true. Maybe they are just conventional. I hope they are true whenever I read it of someone. [But] I would rather be awake. Peacefully awake, brim full of some calming drug that was seeing me out of the door, having said my farewells.”

Said Sleep Wonder Seeing Doors Drug Awake Conventional Farewell Calming Announcements

Author:Ian Mcewan

“My biggest fear, I think falling from a great height. If I want to keep myself awake at night I imagine I'm on the top of the North or South Tower in 9/11, wondering whether I'm going to be burnt to death or I'm going to jump. And I think I would burn to death. And yet I'm impressed by the fact that hundreds didn't.”

Ifs Thinking Want Facts Night Fall Wonder Imagine South Height Awake Towers Impressed Biggest Fear Awake At Night Great Heights

Author:Ian Mcewan

“A bouquet of clumsy words: you know that place between sleep and awake where you're still dreaming but it's slowly slipping? I wish we could feel like that more often. I also wish I could click my fingers three times and be transported to anywhere I like. I wish that people didn't always say 'just wondering' when you both know there was a real reason behind them asking. And I wish I could get lost in the stars. Listen, there's a hell of a good universe next door, let's go.”

People Knows Feels Stills Real Reason Dream Universe Three Next Lost Wish Stars Sleep Behinds Wonder Hell Doors Asking Fingers Awake Three Times Clicks Clumsy Slipping Bouquets

Author:e. e. cummings