“I’m just trying to wake up - I’m so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first. I wouldn’t care if it was just for an hour, as long as I was properly alive and awake…”

—  Philip Pullman , book The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

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