“‎All she felt was mind-numbing exhaustion, and a desperate yearning for the sweet forgetfulness of sleep.”

“May blessings fall down upon you, all your days.”

“What if you were always stuck in one place, your mind spinning and unable to go forward like tires clenched in mud, because the answers wouldn't reveal themselves to you?”

“Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols.”

“O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?”

“True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”

“This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.”