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Quotes for when you can't sleep
It's 3:14. You've done the sum twice. If you dropped off now you'd get three hours and forty minutes, and the sum is keeping you up.
The day replays in the dark. Something you said at lunch has come back for review, and tomorrow has already started going badly in your head. People describe this hour as having its own weather, where small problems look large and the room is very quiet. Many are surprised to learn how many others are lying awake at the same time, looking at the same small light.
Quill has no sleep advice and isn't a treatment for anything. If you pick up your phone at this hour, these lines are there. They're slow and dim, and they're happy to be read once and left alone.
The moments
- Doing the sum on how little sleep is left
- Awake at 3am with a loop you didn't ask for
- Replaying something you said at lunch
- Tomorrow's dread, arriving early
- Scrolling for something to think about
- The clock, again
What people say helps
- Knowing a lot of other people are awake at this hour
- Saying that problems look larger at 3am than at noon
- Leaving the big question for daylight
“Just relax” and “stop thinking about it” come from people who are asleep at 3am, and being told to stop is one more thing to lie awake over.
Quill Originals are written by Quill. Popular sayings are widely repeated lines with no name attached. Lines with a name are checked word for word against public-domain books.
Quill Originals
Planning your way out of something that may never come up.
You've won that argument four times tonight.
You're now in charge of remembering milk until morning.
Dread gets a head start at this hour.
Being tired makes everything sound serious.
Someone asleep right now thinks the world of you.
Being awake isn't something you're doing wrong.
Plenty of what you've lain awake over came to nothing.
Your feet are warm. That's one thing.
The alarm's set. You checked. You'll check again.
You've made it through plenty of mornings you dreaded the night before.
You've been forgiven for worse by people who know you.
Right now the whole world's out of office.
You've had an idea for a business. They're all brilliant at this hour.
What you got wrong today can wait its turn.
You've done decent work on a bad night before.
Nobody is cross with you at this hour.
You think things through. Tonight that's inconvenient.
It makes sense that you're tired of this.
The plan doesn't need finishing tonight.
You don't have to be impressive at this hour.
Only careful people lie awake over one sentence.
A thought being loud tells you nothing about whether it's true.
A bad night says nothing about who you are.
Whoever you were at lunch, that's still you.
Nothing needs deciding before it's light.
You heard the first bus.
Your head has been waiting all day for a word with you.
This is the first time all day nobody's needed you. Your mind noticed.
You got through today. That part's done.
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