„He gave up and went back to loafing, found that he could sleep all right in the afternoons but that the practice kept him awake at night.“

— Robert A. Heinlein

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„He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.“
— Harper Lee
„I’ve been wandering around all night—I couldn’t sleep—and I kept finding myself walking here. To you.“
— Cassandra Clare
„They doneWrongLike ink from a busted penThrown away 'cause of someone elseUsed upBut he come backDressed in nightFine as a kingWith his queenThe wrongMade rightSo right.“
— Kristin Cast
„He rolled in his bed, twisting the sheets, grappling with a problem years too big for him, awake in the night like a single sentinel on picket. And sometime after midnight, he slept, too, and then only the wind was awake, prying at the hotel and hooting in its gables under the bright gimlet gaze of the stars.“
— Stephen King
„Paddy and I had scarcely a wink of sleep, for there was a man near us who had some nervous trouble, shell-shock perhaps, which made him cry out 'Pip!' at irregular intervals. It was a loud, startling noise, something like the toot of a small motor-horn. You never knew when it was coming, and it was a sure preventer of sleep…. he must have kept ten or twenty people awake every night. He was an example of the kind of thing that prevents one from ever getting enough sleep when men are herded as they are in these lodging houses.“
— George Orwell
„The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do.“
— Charles Bukowski