Top 48 She Sleeps Quotes
#1. She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world.
Taiye Selasi
#2. She sleeps: her breathings are not heard In palace chambers far apart. The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd That lie upon her charmed heart She sleeps: on either hand upswells The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest: She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells A perfect form in perfect rest.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#3. Every woman is her true age when she sleeps.
Gene Wolfe
#6. See! sweet and sound she sleeps in granny's bed, between the paws of the tender wolf.
Angela Carter
#7. If I could trade places with any of my sisters for a day, it would be Kim. I want to see what it's like ... The only time she sleeps is on the airplane. It's just crazy. I feel bad for her, but I still want to know what it's like.
Kendall Jenner
#8. What is that?" Dad said, looking at the doll.
"It's called the Scream," I said.
"I know that, but what us it?" Dad said.
"Maybe she sleeps with it," I said to Dad as he tucked it under his arm.
"Then no wonder it's screaming," he said.
Douglas Rees
#9. But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps
deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.
Thomas Harris
#10. Poor Matilda! She sleeps in the Grave, and her broken heart throbs no more with passion.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#11. I can give myself to her
In her dreams
Whispering her own poems
In her ear as she sleeps beside me.
Akiko Yosano
#12. There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.
William Shakespeare
#13. Cam: She is so lovely when she sleeps.
Daniel: Is that why you wanted her to sleep for all eternity?
Lauren Kate
#14. Contrary to popular belief," Gretchen grumbled. "It's creepy to watch a girl while she sleeps."
Clint shrugged and smiled. "Sorry, I guess I should've just woken you up.
Aria Kane
#15. He touches his wife's smooth back as she sleeps her warm sleep and dreams her own dreams; he thinks that it is good to be a child, but it is also good to be grownup and able to consider the mystery of childhood . . . its beliefs and desires.
Stephen King
#16. The only time she has anything resembling a life is when she sleeps because when she sleeps she can dream.
Donna Lynn Hope
#17. Angela has a boyfriend. Actually, he's a friend with benefits."
"What's that?" Grandma said.
"It means she likes him, and she sleeps with him sometimes when she feels like it."
"In my day, we called that a husband," Grandma said.
Elaine Viets
#18. She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.
E.M. Delafield
#19. The demon woman is a mythological type, and appears either as the companion of the enemy, or as the seductress of the hero; she sleeps with him-or at least promises to-and kills him.
Wolfgang Lederer
#20. He paused to look at Nykyrian. "Wonder if she sleeps naked ... Bet she showers that way. Every day even. Think about it. I'll even bet she's naked underneath her clothes."
-Syn
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#21. I wonder how well she sleeps at night, and what kind of dreams she has. I wish I could step into them like she steps into mine.
Isaac Marion
#22. She sleeps well, she's got very good legs and she can stand for a long time. The Queen is as strong as a yak.
Robert Hardman
#24. Her touch is like doing simple math
When she sleeps in the bed, subtracting clothes
There is a red ink, like a sparkling red wine, adding colors
Dividing body, remembering gods, without multiplying
Santosh Kalwar
#25. Six has never been a morning person, and from the looks of it, she's not an afternoon person, either. In all honesty, she's also not a night person. If I had to guess when her most pleasant time of day occurs, it's probably while she sleeps, which may be why she hates to wake up so much.
Colleen Hoover
#26. Nobody works harder than Lady Gaga. Nobody. She is unbelievable. I don't know how she sleeps, or when or if.
Ryan Tedder
#27. The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends.
Tamora Pierce
#28. And then I keep reading, anyway - but not just because I like the story. I like knowing that I'm touching her with my words. That they're crawling in her ears as she sleeps.
Colleen Oakley
#29. She is careful who she sleeps with, because only those willing totreat her witht he same reverence are worthy of her attention.
... you are the Goddess, and "all acts of love and pleasure" are your rituals
Dianne Sylvan
#30. I have laid sorrow to sleep;Love sleeps.She who oft made me weepNow weeps.
Arthur Symons
#31. She married him two years ago for love, or so she thought, and he's a good enough man but a devotee of household silence. His idea of marriage is to spray WD-40 on anything that squeaks ... The quiet only subsides when Harland sleeps and his tonsils make up for lost time.
Barbara Kingsolver
#32. She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger
Paulo Coelho
#33. A thinking woman sleeps with monsters
that beak which grips her, she becomes.
Adrienne Rich
#34. That's Lily all over, you know: she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seed; but the day she ought to be reaping the harvest she over-sleeps herself or goes off on a picnic.
Edith Wharton
#35. Lenina suddenly remembered an occasion when, as a little girl at school, she had woken up in the middle of the night and become aware, for the first time, of the whispering that had haunted all her sleeps.
Aldous Huxley
#36. If a man has to wait before he sleeps with a woman, he'll not only perceive her as more beautiful, he'll also take time to appreciate who she is.
Sherry Argov
#37. And now he was down there with Roger and the slut. Which was unfair, but it was how she found herself thinking of Xela more and more. How's that old joke go? she thought. The difference between a nymph and a slut? A nymph sleeps with everyone. A slut sleeps with everyone except you.
Peter Clines
#38. What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
Ovid
#39. Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your mother sleeps on the lumpy studio couch. The tenth year: You send the children to mother.
Lois Wyse
#40. Sophie has to go home and sleep in her own bed," Stacy tells them with a smile.
"She can sleep in our bed, like Caleb sleeps in Mommy's bed," Maddie replies.
Just shoot me
Kristen Proby
#41. Till she seemed to swoon, gradually her mind went, and she passed away, everything in her was melted down and fluid, and she lay still, become contained by him, sleeping in him as lightning sleeps in a pure, soft stone.
D.H. Lawrence
#42. The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
William Cowper
#43. Maybe she grew one more in the night and that's why the night sleep was so deep, it was a matching pair of sleeps. -
Helen Oyeyemi
#44. We are all dishonored when a veteran sleeps on the same streets that he or she has defended. We are all dishonored when a veteran's family has to live in a shelter while he or she is out fighting for us. WE NEED TO FIX THAT!
Tammy Duckworth
#45. But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
Audre Lorde
#46. What if the hook-up girl is using you just as much as you're using her? What if she's just having fun? This is the problem with society. When a guy sleeps around, he's sowing oats. When a girl does it, she's a hook-up girl.
Penny Reid
#47. From her perch more than a kilometer aboveground, she surveys the city that never sleeps, glittering and coruscating in the rain like a metaphor for her glamorous life.
Bao Shu
#48. And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything to be unwakened by what she cannot name?
Mark Strand
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