Sarah Dessen Quotes About Sleep

Quotes about: Sleep

• It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sleep, Night, Voice

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Keeping the Moon”, p.101, Penguin

• Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't under­stand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sleep, Wake Up, Half

  "Dreamland". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2000.

• But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids. I didn't care if they sang to me. All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again, pulling me upward into light, to drown.

  Sarah Dessen

  Block, Sleep, Light

  "Dreamland". Book by Sarah Dessen, September 1, 2000.

• From up above, in a plane passing over, you’d just see one little light in all this dark, with no idea of the lives that were being lived within it, and in the house beside, and beside that one. So much happening in the world, night and day, hour by hour. It was no wonder we were meant to sleep, if only to check out of it for a little while.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sleep, Dark, Night

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.190, Penguin

• I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations circling in the air above me. It was only a matter of time before something fell.

  Sarah Dessen

  Running, Sleep, Fighting

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.129, Penguin

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