“I'll sleep when I'm dead.”
“Maybe when I'd dead, he thought. Maybe when I'm dead I'll get some goddamned sleep.”
“But I know I'll never sleep again. I can't close my eyes when I'm next to her. It's like sleeping with a spider.”
“I'll go sleep on the couch," James said. "No, you won't," Poppy said firmly. She flopped on the bed beside him. "You're dead tired. And I know I'm safe with you." James grinned without moving his arm. "Because I'm dead tired?”
“Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.”
“I'm so exhausted and yet I feel like I'll never sleep again.”