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“All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me. I loathe Somnus, that black-masked headsman ...”
“Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The ...”
“That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot ...”
“Oh God, midnights not bad, you wake and go back to sleep, one or twos not bad, you toss but sleep again. Five or six in the morning, theres hope, for dawns just under the horizon. But three, now, C...”
“When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.”
“Somewhere in the night ahuman being is drowning.”
“Those who wake at this hour feel a lonely separation from everyone but night birds and ghost crabs, never imagining the legion of kindred souls scattered in the darkness, who stare at ceilings and ...”
“Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. . . "Wildebeest of Words/Breathe In”
“Here, from her ashes you lay. A broken girl so lost in despondency that you know that even if she does find her way out of this labyrinth in hell, that she will never see, feel, taste, or touch lif...”
“Alone with thoughts of what should have long been forgotten, I let myself be carried away into the silent screams of delirium.”
“The dismal fact is that self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of others who are, after all, deceived easily enough; has nothing to do with reputation, which, as Rhett Butler told Scarle...”
“I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.”
“I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.”
“Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.”
“Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best.”
“It is at night when sleep like the outgoing sea leaves you dry and cold and the morning light arrives like a small punishment.”
“I’m awake and I can’t sleep. The more I’m awake, the more I see, and the harder to sleep.”
“And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe during the day, I can rush around and undo the damage.”
“Oh God, midnight’s not bad, you wake and go back to sleep, one or two’s not bad, you toss but sleep again. Five or six in the morning, there’s hope, for dawn’s just under the horizon. But three, no...”
