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Quotes About Sleep

And very amusing it is to watch," said Jem. "Did you know you twitch your nose when you sleep, like a rabbit?" "I do not," she said, with a whispered laugh.- In my dreams (Chapter 17) deleted scene- Clockwork Prince
~ Cassandra Clare
Loretta swallowed. "Hunter?" His indigo gaze met hers. "Thank you. For--defending me." Almost imperfectibly, he inclined his head. "Sleep, Blue Eyes. It is well.
~ Catherine Anderson
Sleep, mah-tao-yo. This last time, at my side.
~ Catherine Anderson
We talked of mice, the cat and I, and of the importance of napping.
~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock
I trust you are enjoying your stay in our castle?" I asked at last. "Would that I were, Your Highness. But I am afraid my sleep last night was quite troubled. This morning I identified the source of my bruises" – here he reached into a pocket of his waistcoat – "as a pea that had been tucked beneath my mattress.
~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Sometimes I suspect that everybody sleeps with their kids, and the only difference is the level of denial you're in.
~ Catherine Newman
Every night I lie in bed and try to go to sleep. And then the next thing I know, I'm opening my eyes and it's morning. I never feel myself fall asleep. Ever. Do you?
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
It was after two in the morning, I would later learn, and I was having a dream that was nothing but hoofbeats. No visuals at all. Just a gray screen of nothingness, and the sound of hoofbeats.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
I didn't sleep well that night. I lost most of the night thinking about it. What does it mean when someone loses the use of most of his brain, and it makes him more kind?
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
It takes a lot of energy to be that angry, and I didn't have what it took. I was beginning to feel like a big raw nerve from all these problems, compounded by lack of sleep. I needed relief. But the wind caught the letter and blew it away. Which is not to say the direction the letter took was the problem. The problem was that I thought delivering it would help to resolve things, but I was wrong.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
You look like a winter night", he had told her when he had given it to her. "I could sleep inside the cold of you".
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
After all, in fairy tales, there was only one thing to do. In every story with a long sleep and a waking in it. An easy thing, a pretty thing. Standard currency.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day's dying, I take off my skin and lay it nicely on my armoire. I take off my bones and hang them up on the hatstand. I set my scythe to washing on the old stove. I eat a nice supper of mouse-and-myrrh soup. Some nights I drink off a nice red wine. White does not agree with me. I lay myself down on a bed of lilies and still, I cannot sleep.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Who knows what wild things Sleeping Beauty dreamt of while waiting to awake?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Things which are gone in the morning: sleep, darkness, grief, the moon. Women. Dreams.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
But soon the wine sack was empty, and sleep brushed my ears with her ash-lips.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
It was only a dream. Sometimes they say that, at the end of stories, in the land where Milo was born. And then I woke up—it was only a dream. Stories here do not end like that. I cannot wake up. I do not sleep.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I am here to tell you We are all of us just as mighty as planets—and you too, We'll let you in, we've got stalwart to spare— But you might have to sleep on the floor.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I can't decide if I want a baby. And my friends who have kids don't make very good salesmen. They're like, "Oh you learn all this great stuff, like how to survive on two hours' sleep." If I want to learn that I'll just become a political prisoner or something.
~ Cathryn Michon
My bed was calling me, so I turned off my mobile, switched on the answering machine and climbed under the duvet for a few hours of divine uninterrupted sleep.
~ Cathy Hopkins
The Liver needs movement!! Nothing will move your stagnation like exercise. Regulate sleep, with a goal of being asleep before the Wood (Liver-Gall Baldder) hours begin at 11 p.m., and no late night eating or overeating as this burdens the Liver's patent flow of Qi and contributes to stagnation of energy. We know that the emotions associated
~ Cathy McNease
I was getting to bed about 10 P.M. so wound up and not getting to sleep by 11, and because I was putting the prosthetics on for five hours, I had to be up at 3 in the morning.
~ Gerard Butler
I have never felt any rest in sleep. For a few seconds I am numbed, then a new life begins, freed from the conditions of time and space, and doubtless similar to that state which awaits us after death. Who knows if there is not some link between those two existences and if it is not possible for the soul to unite them now?
~ Gerard de Nerval