Nighttime Wakefulness Quotes

If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.

I hate being awake at three in the morning. It is the godforsaken heart of darkness when the body runs slow, and the brain runs slower, and all you want to do is sleep. But I had promises to keep, and miles to go before I could sleep. Or at least a couple of miracles to perform before I could go to bed.

I'm an insomniac, so my perfect reader is probably another insomniac.

I am an insomniac.

I am awake a lot of nights.

I don't sleep. I have a notepad next to my bed.

It's great, but there is one problem. She doesn't sleep. At night she seems to turn into a vampire. She wakes up every night five or 10 times, asking for things, singing, calling out.

I am constantly sleep-deprived.

WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.

For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.