Honestly, I don't care what we do. I just want to stay wrapped around him for as long as possible, fighting sleep and forgetting about the rest of the world.

—Karen M. McManus in One of Us Is Lying

About Karen M. McManus

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Karen M. McManus (born 1969) is an American author of young adult fiction. She is most known for her first novel, One of Us Is Lying, which spent more than five years on The New York Times Best Seller list, as well as its sequels One of Us Is Next...

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You find out who your real friends are when stuff like this happens. Turns out I didn't have any.

—Karen M. McManus in One of Us Is Lying

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Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the bloody night, or when you're half awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is.

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Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

—Gregory Bateson

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Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye, steal me awhile from mine own company.

Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, the death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast.

—William Shakespeare

Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, and look on death itself.

—William Shakespeare

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