“She slept deeply, but as usual, she did not dream. It had been months; none of them was dreaming anymore. [p. 227]”

“... and most of all she wondered about the man at the next table whose voice was like... like a dream which she did not know that she had dreamed.”

“Afterward, Sara didn't really remember falling asleep, still wearing her robe although she meant to get dressed and had had Serafina lay out a pair of jeans and a blouse for her. In any case, she had slept. And there had been dreams -- of the unsettling kind she didn't want to recall.”

“I could tell that Mom was dreaming, but I didn't want to know what she was dreaming about, because I had enough of my own nightmares, and if she had been dreaming something happy, I would have been angry at her for dreaming something happy.”

“-"Nick?""I'm still here, Laurant."-"Did you tell Tommy we slept together?""No, but you just did. He's standing right here."She fell asleep. But this time she didn't have any dreams or nightmare.”

“I almost never slept deeply anymore--as soon as she said my name, I always sat up immediately, no matter how tired I was.”