"Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion."

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Source : Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.513, Simon and Schuster

Audrey Niffenegger

#Sleep Quotes #Opiates Quotes #Lovers Quotes

“I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native land. Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask but from my country's will, by day, by night, to ply the task her cup of bliss to fill.”
“I want to serve. I want to serve the people. I want every girl, every child, to be educated.”
“But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.”
“That which works is authentic. It's a practical truth. What really matters is that we find benefit, regardless of whether it's an ancient traditional approach or some new version, popular or obscure.”
“I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.”
“To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.”
“Most of the time I write my best songs just from feeling a strong emotion, so whether I'm just really angry or really sad or really happy, I immediately sit down at a piano and I begin writing a song.”
“I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef's table... Unless they can identify what they're tasting, they don't get to cook it.”

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