Sleep Like Death Quotes

“All mothers love their children,” I say. Nova looks stricken. “That, Princess, is so far from the truth I can’t begin to explain it to you.”
― Kalynn Bayron, Sleep Like Death

“It is easier to track a story if it is bleeding. That is to say, if the heart of the tale is beating, if it is real and not just the fanciful embellishment of some frightened villager's imagination, I can find it.”
― Kalynn Bayron, Sleep Like Death

“Don’t drown,” he says. “Don’t sink. Don’t do any of that.” He pulls back and looks up at me. “Swim, Eve. For me. For us.”
In that moment I picture myself in a storming sea, the water thrashing around me, the sky cloudy and full of thunder. I see myself among the wreckage of the life I had lived, the pieces of it broken and floating around me. I could let it drag me all the way to the bottom. I could allow the water to ferry me to an early grave, but instead I picture Claude and the boys standing on a nearby shore, shouting at me to swim. I kick toward them, pulling myself through the stormy sea, reaching for them until they finally pull me ashore.”
― Kalynn Bayron, Sleep Like Death

“Do I deserve to rise from the ashes of this terrible sadness? Claude and these boys, these beautiful, messy, silly boys, cared for me again and again over the past weeks. They showed me kindness when perhaps I deserved none.”
― Kalynn Bayron, Sleep Like Death

“I have children of my own, my
Queen. You know them well. I understand that seeing them grow up and
become their own people is a terrifying thing.”
― Kalynn Bayron, Sleep Like Death