“Close my eyes just for tonight the sun still sleeps”
“I just close my eyes no matter where I am, and just be still.”
“I stared at myself in the mirror. Okay, just ugh. I had to get some sleep tonight - the bags under my eyes had bags.”
“two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes”
“Gently, I reach forward and close her eyes with my fingertips, hoping it will make her seem merely asleep. But the stillness of sleep is nothing at all like the stillness of death.”
“You were sleeping?" said Princess One."No," I said. "Sometimes I just like to lie in the dark for hours with my eyes closed.”