Don't Go Back to Sleep Quotes

“Slowing down your body enough to feel.


Thought you were at a standstill

but you were only slowing down enough


to feel the pain. There are worse things


than running to catch the train, twisting

your ankle, the afternoon fucked.


Running to get to or away from?


the stranger who helps you up

wants to know, you who are so used to


anything scribbled on a prescription blank.


Just want the pain to go away, you say,

surprised to find yourself


reaching for someone else's hand.”
― Timothy Liu, Don't Go Back to Sleep

“I was always afraid
of the next card

the psychic would turn
over for us—
Forgive me
for not knowing
how we were

every card in the deck.”
― Timothy Liu, Don't Go Back to Sleep