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“They died, he wrote, as if overcome by sleep - or, according to a second translation: as if drowned in a dream.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“The mother seems relieved to have heard that this affliction might be psychological, as if the failings of the mind are any less destructive than those of the body.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“They sleep like children, mouths open, cheeks flushed. Breathing as rhythmic as swells on a sea. No longer allowed in the rooms, their mothers and fathers watch them through double-paned glass. Isolation - that's what the doctors call it: the separation of the sick from the well. But isn't every sleep a kind of isolation? When else are we so alone?”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“The great trick of the devil is to make you want to see him. But it is only when you see him that you fear him. And by then, it is too late.”
― Patrick Ness, And the Ocean Was Our Sky