“I wished I could shut it in a locket to wear aroung my neck. I wish a thousand-year sleep would find us, at this absolute second, like the sleep over the castle of Sleeping Beauty.”

“In the final seconds before sleep, I wish I could go back and undo everything, give those little girls another chance.”

“How I wish I were by the sea again.This slack season the men must be paintingthe hulls of the boats or sleeping the noon away.I would not sleep if I were they.”

“Sometimes I wish I had never met you, because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there.”

“I was completely out of clean clothes. That meant I could be a slut and sleep naked , or I could be a slob and sleep in what I was wearing. Truth is, I'm not entirely comfortable sleeping naked. I do it from time to time, but I worry that God might be watching or that my mother might find out, and I'm pretty sure they both think nice girls should wear pyjamas to bed.”

“I really wish Mike and Joe would stop drawing on me while I'm sleeping.”