“And Sleep will not lie down, but walksWild-eyed and cries to Time.”
“I know you're not thirsty. That's bullshit. Stop lying. Lie the fuck down, my darling, and sleep.”
“My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.”
“The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.”
“Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”
“Now, watching her sleep, and closing his eyes, he felt, in this particular intimacy - stowed beneath her duvet - that he was intruding. At the same time, he knew, settling down, you couldn´t dislike anyone you'd seen sleep”