"That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep."

Rest, Sleep, Dream, Memory, Longing

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"Weekends are life's gift to those who hate their jobs."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament."

Aspen Matis, American Author

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"You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

Rest, Holiday, Relaxation, Nature

"Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes, and he held onto nothing, and he held onto dreams."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Rest, Sleep, Dream, Nothing

"Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Rest, Sleep, Peace, Escape, Calm

"Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Rest, Life, Struggle, Emotion

"A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae."

Henry Miller, American Author

Rest, Peace, Calm, Comfort

"I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Rest, Recreated, Refreshed and Refuel!"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent."

Joseph Hume, Scottish Scientist

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"He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth."

Forgiveness, Survival, Life, Hope

"Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid."

Education, Libraries, Children, Ambition, Service

"I am trying to find ways to live honestly and hopefully in the world without ignoring or denying the universe s cold and painful indifference to us."

Philosophy, Honesty, Hope, Universe, Indifference

"It is so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."

Change, Freedom, Truth, Life

"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."

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"I would not be dying if it were not for her. I would have stayed home, as I have always stayed home, and I would have been safe, and I would have done the one thing I have always wanted to do, which is to grow up."

Life, Death, Choice, Fear

"Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust."

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"I'm not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore."

Emotion, Laughter, Safety, Comfort

"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."

Emotion, Change, Sensitivity, Truth

"But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended."

Fiction, Novel, Reality, Truth, Life