Quotes on Bedtime

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.

And I know these scars will bleed, but both of our hearts believe all of these stars will guide us home

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual where, on the cold bathroom tiles, I was spread out daily and examined for flaws. I did not know that my bones, those solids, those pieces of sculpture would not splinter.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it... And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.

Give yourself permission to dream. Fuel your kids' dreams too. Once in a while, that might even mean letting them stay up past their bedtimes.