“Most of the time we just stay quiet and listen to the city outside and hold onto each other before the sleep takes over. Before the sleep gets us.”

“I wanted to hold onto this point in time before our eyes found each other and before I knew whether our hearts could do the same." Amalfi Blue”

“Just because as human beings, what we can't have is what we reply in our head over and over again before we go to sleep.”

“And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.”

“These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them,or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no needto go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is onlya bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spiriturge him can go outside and sleep, and then, when the dawn shows,breakfast first, then go out to tend the swine of our master.But we two, sitting here in the shelter, eating and drinking,shall entertain each other remembering and retellingour sad sorrows. For afterwards a man who has sufferedmuch and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.”

“...at that time of all times for yearning and longing, just before the sharp senses lose their outlines in sleep.”