“Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.”

“Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.”

“The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.”

“I don't need to sleep to play. I'm crazy anyway. Being crazier still could only help.”

“Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer.”

“And time would open up to us and we would be the teachers of one another. All the things that gave you happiness would give me happiness; and I would be the protector of your pain. My power would be your power. My strength the same. But you're dead inside to me, you're cold and beyond reach!”

“There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead.”