“Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly — and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and safe.”

“You can dream the American DreamBut you sleep with the lights onAnd wake up with a scream”

“Maybe if I can just sleep for a hundred years, I'll wake up in a better story.”

“Why don’t you pack a bigger bag and come stay with me?”My stomach flutters at the thought of going to sleep in Cash’s arms every night and waking up in them every morning. Of going to sleep with his taste on my tongue and waking up with his tongue in my mouth. That’s what it would be like. At least for a while. For a few days.It sounds like heaven.”

“In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.”

“There are those who wake up each morning to conquer the day, and then there are those of us who wake up only because we have to. We live in the shadow of every neighborhood. We own little corner stores, live in run-down apartments that get too little light, and walk the same streets day after day. We spend our afternoons gazing lazily out of windows. Somnambulists, all of us. Someone else said it better: we wake to sleep and sleep to wake.”