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Quotes About Awoke

In the dreaming man's dream, the dreamed man awoke.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.
~ Ray Bradbury
Struggling against his weight, reeling backward, I knocked the fishbowl from its pedestal and it crashed to the floor. Goldfish flopping all around my feet, amidst the shards of broken glass. Someone banged on the door. In my terror I let go of the body and it fell back into the tub with a hideous slap and a spray of water and I woke up.
~ Donna Tartt
By dawn you were pure electric.    You pulsed like a star. You awoke in the last darkness before the light poured in.
~ Adrienne Rich
I had a werewolf morning. Awoke with a rum hangover, imagined blood on the walls, and prayed to god it was mine.
~ Randy Wayne White
It was a chaste kiss, but as her lips brushed his warm cheek, her eyes met his. They were deep and dark, warm with passion and longing. And somehow she knew, without question, what he thought. What he felt. Time held its breath - and in that moment, looking into Buchan's warm, tormented gaze, Tatiana's heart awoke.
~ Karen Hawkins
I had a werewolf morning. Awoke with a rum hangover, imagined blood on the walls, and prayed to god it was mine.
~ Randy Wayne
I awoke in the Midsummer not-to-call night, in the white and the walk of the morning
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
He dozed off, into a dreamless oblivion, for what seemed like seconds but was in fact hours, and awoke hungover, the inner surface of his skull pulsing like a single, giant nerve being chewed by some ruminant animal.
~ Alex Shakar
I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.
~ Paul Nurse
I awoke at dawn, thrown up on a rock, the skeleton of a ship choked in its own sails.
~ Anais Nin
So I awoke, and behold it was a dream.
~ John Bunyan
All the details of my life were in exact order and yet I was tumbling in them-out of order like a tremendous wave had hit me and I was thrown off the ship and I awoke or dreaming, or dead I knew not-no I couldn't speak.
~ Eileen Myles
When I awoke on the verandah I saw a grey morning, smelt the rain on the red earth, and remembered that I had to go away.
~ Ruskin Bond
Once upon a time, I awoke in a strange place.
~ Josh Ramsay
Apparently the painting was removed from a Venetian palazzo, shipped to Newport and glued above the bed so Alva could feel inspired every morning as she awoke.
~ Belinda Jones
Kugel awoke early the next morning, turning his face from the harsh rays of intruding sunlight that stretched across the room like some goddamned thing that stretches across some other goddamned thing. Why did children always draw the sun smiling? he wondered. It's a giant ball of fire, kids. It's rage and fury. Whatever it's doing, it isn't fucking smiling.
~ Shalom Auslander
Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something -! I dragged him to the window and pointed. No it's not, he said. It's snowing.
~ Harper Lee
When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was all of my nighttime snores, condensed and frozen and pasted to the fabric, as if into a scrapbook of respiratory memories.
~ Bill Bryson
Prince Raoden of Arelon awoke early that morning, completely unaware that he had been damned for all eternity.
~ Brandon Sanderson
AS, TWO weeks later, James Bond awoke in his room at the Hotel Splendide, some of this history passed through his mind.
~ Ian Fleming
Again," he said and, without waiting for an answer, ran into the growing dark without fear, every single part of his body overwhelmed with the task of being alive. When Buster awoke from unconsciousness, he saw, with some degree of difficulty, Joseph's face hovering over him. "Oh god," Joseph wailed, "I thought for sure that you were dead.
~ Kevin Wilson
In the morning Hunter awoke to find his blue-eyes curled up against his side, only the tip of her nose and a tangle of gold hair showing above the edge of the buffalo robe. She had one hand wedged under his backside, the other insinuated between his thighs. He was tempted to wake her, just to see the look on her face when she realized how intimately she was touching him.
~ Catherine Anderson
When she awoke to her memorial headache, she would find my grandfather on his knees, praying for her sweet, boozy soul.
~ Pat Conroy