Uncle Darnell had been home for a few weeks, but he still woke up in the middle of the night. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

If it hadn’t been for that last jet of water, he would not have woken up. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve wondered ever since if I did wake up. If I did wake up and hear her, and if I just went back to sleep. It would have been easy, and I’ve wondered about it.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Sunday night after my solo performance at the Woodcrest, I wake up at three in the morning gripped by the theory that Pete had deliberately set me up. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Hazel woke up on Tuesday morning, the truth of things finally hit her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But at night, in the middle of the night, she woke up without any defenses and cried hopelessly until dawn showed in the sky. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew, of course, that Uriah might never wake up. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I love a witchy, dark, gloomy autumn day, when it rains from the time you wake up until the time you go to bed. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Johnny woke up and realized that only Revere and Warren were still in the room and they were talking about Hancock and Adams. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men all do about the same things when they wake up. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up, and my room is dark except for the shine of the streetlights and the planes and maybe the moon. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Link had finally woken up, and he paced up and down the floor. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I woke up covered head to toe in chalk.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

But I know it happened because one day I was the best lacrosse player at All Saints, and the next day I woke up in the hospital with fifty stitches in my foot and leg. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He didn’t wake up after twelve minutes like Dev, or even twenty. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine. Just dozed off and woke up to you yelling about your stupid toe.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I never had to worry about going to sleep late or waking up early in the mornings. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I was waking up, it came to me why my boss had seemed annoyed when I asked him for two days off: today is Saturday. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

They were both whispering fiercely, trying not to wake up their dad. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

If I write about it, I might wake up. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe I just need to wake up and that will solve everything. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Lazlo slept in a barracks of boys, went to bed hungry, and woke up cold. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Almost three months after dad went into a coma, I came home from school one afternoon and heard the news: he woke up. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“If the Sleeper isn’t stopped, the rest will wake up, too.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I woke up from a dream, crying. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

This isn’t some temporary dream that I’m going to wake up from. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then I was waking up on the ground. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, but I woke up this morning craving an eye for an eye.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was so enchanted, he almost didn’t hear the servant coming down the hall, but fortunately, he woke up soon enough to scuttle behind the potted plants. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like waking up in the morning after a good night’s sleep. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I would wake up in the morning, brush my teeth, and sit down at the typewriter in the same clothes I had slept in. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"She needs to wake up a little earlier and try to decide whether she wants to look like Farrah Fawcett or Rick James." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The quicker they got Lyra out, the better, and that meant darting down there now before Mrs. Coulter woke up, cutting through, pulling her to safety, and closing again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid we—we fell asleep in the sun and...he just—when we woke up—he just wasn’t there. We looked for him,” he added quickly. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

However, without curtains over the cracked glass, the sun streamed through the window every morning, so the children woke up early and sore each day. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Everybody started waking up and stretching and scratching. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I woke up and took out the bobby pins, I was too shocked even to cry or scream or stomp around the house. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I got scared because I woke up already knowing that I'm like this. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leave a note on the kitchen table, grab my keys, and slip out of the apartment before Mom and Richard wake up. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I tried waking up the girls, but they were dazed and disorientated and wanted only to be left alone, to linger in bed a little longer. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Yet I woke up my mother and finally asked her why she chose me, that day at the Kwenge River. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse got breakfast when he woke up, usually at four-thirty, followed by stall mucking and grooming at five, and a lengthy gallop with Pumpkin at eight. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think she stays in my room the whole night, ’cause every time I wake up, she’s sitting on my bed. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Mark woke up, and for a few seconds he remembered the feeling of staring at Trina when things had begun to turn a corner and hope—the slightest trace—was in her eyes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She would find Montez, in New Orleans maybe, or wherever he was along the way, and stay by his side until he woke up. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But their good times turned bad when Quirin woke up and finally noticed his luxurious accommodations. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Byron looked around to make sure no one was listening, then said, “Have you ever noticed early in the morning some of die time you wake up and hear garbage trucks?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lights the fire and makes the tea and sings to himself or reads the paper to me in a whisper that won’t wake up the rest of the family. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I said, wake up! I don’t care what time it is!” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Time to wake up, Chris,” she said cheerfully, opening the curtains of my window. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He went to bed tired and he woke up tired. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She woke up gasping, her arms outstretched, the sound of Peach still ringing in her ears. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I wake up at noon, my body aching. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She always seems to wake up when I do, even in the middle of the night. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Fatigue washed over Gregor, and he wished he could lie down, just lie down and fall asleep and wake up in his bed where he could see the car lights flashing across the walls. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I came around, Erin was stroking my cheek, saying, “Wake up! Come on, Finley, wake up!” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slept pretty well nearly all day but woke up in time for supper. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

But as Buksa and the other Jur-chol men were removing the hive from the tree, the bees woke up and were not at all happy to discover that their home was being taken away. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not like I wake up every day planning to be a failure. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Last night I found her leaning out when I woke up, and when I tried to wake her I could not; she was in a faint. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It took him a while to persuade her to wake up and then to look at him, as she kept shuffling around on her perch, showing him her tail. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They woke up, all four at once, in the morning light. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At dawn, we woke up, frightened by our parents’ screams. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Every breath of air was delicious with just enough of a clean, salt edge to wake up all your senses. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toby woke up confused, calling into the alien apartment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t suppose there’s any chance of you waking up again?” he asked without much hope in his voice. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry it’s dusty. It was in the storeroom. Will you open the door, please, and shut it after me? I have to get home before anyone wakes up and misses me.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She no longer woke up worrying about her relatives and what might happen to them. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

About two or three hours after we fell asleep I woke up to find Piper sitting up next to me wide awake with a look of naked terror on her face. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up to find that we have stopped and all the families are getting off the truck. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They laugh and sing and dance and cry and scream and fall down in a weakness and you wonder if they’ll wake up at all and give you the tip. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

So what I did was, I went down the hail and woke up Frederick Woodruff, this guy I'd lent my typewriter to. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Nearly ten years had passed since the Dursleys had woken up to find their nephew on the front step, but Privet Drive had hardly changed at all. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

For most of the day since we woke up after the attack, we had stared at the walls. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he woke up hungry or thirsty, Roz brought him food or water. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The next day, a Sunday, I wake up as Ainsley Mills. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“We didn’t know how long it would take for you to wake up. I had to make a decision.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She wakes up cheerful after a good night's sleep and plans her next move. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The air was charged with unreality, as if she would certainly wake up in a minute. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Before Oliver could fully wake up, he found himself being led from his warm bed and into Jessie and Isa’s room. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But Baby would wake up soon and he would have to make her dinner. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In her dreams, he is so real that she wakes up hurting more than the day before. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I woke up, pushed the boy aside, caught the unburned upper part of the draperies and pulled them down. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Hoping, praying, that Ammu hadn’t woken up and found her gone. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I need to take you home, woman. You need to have stayed in your crib this morning if you woke up with an attitude that wrong.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It's clear he's been waiting for me to wake up to eat and is eager to get started. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Come on, I know you can hear me. You have to wake up.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We woke up later and arranged an armada of pillows so that we could sit comfortably against the edge of the bed and played Counterinsurgence 2: The Price of Dawn. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“What goes through your mind when you wake up in the morning and hear the weather forecast is eighty and sunny?” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And all three of us smiled more than usual on the day when I woke up well. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I remember the last dream I have before I wake up, though. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Every morning when you wake up it seems a lot of your parts aren’t stuck on as good as they used to be. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I woke up and hesitantly touched my side. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Keep the zipper locked or you’ll wake up being spooned by a bum.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Stay out of the taverns, or you’ll wake up on a privateer yourself.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, as soon as they woke up, they rushed to Minli’s bed to see if she was there. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then I lay down on the bed and fell asleep—but I woke up almost immediately. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t bear that Cap woke up early to practice tai chi on our front lawn. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He was also on our party line and probably didn’t appreciate being woken up in the middle of the night. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to beg the physician to save him was equally so, since Hassan would only wake up to hate her forever. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Helena and I wake up together in the morning. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The tail gunner woke up while Yossarian was vomiting, saw him, and fainted again. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Or if we woke up at the same time. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back up into the rafters to see if the bat had woke up. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I wake up only two towns away from her, in someone else’s arms. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you’ll wake up tomorrow and realize this is just the dybbuk talking.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

At some point I woke up with a start and realized that Beau wasn’t under my arm. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

So I don’t wake up if I don’t have to. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I woke up that morning, I heard a hammer going. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

We woke up in the middle of the night. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It took him quite a while to wake up each night and then when he did awaken, he didn’t do much except hop around the living room. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

The universe, it seems, is on my side the next morning, because when I wake up in the body of Megan Powell, I also wake up a mere hour away from Rhiannon. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I hear the world go to sleep and wake up: the slowing of traffic, birds chirping, cars starting, my parents making coffee. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t woken up from the procedure yet. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And then on that Sunday, the Colonel woke up late and rolled over. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He woke up in the night and found that place as he moved close to her again. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Minnie wakes up, she says she knows she shouldn’t be telling me this, that I’m too young to hear it, but I swear I’m thirteen and that seems to satisfy her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alice adjusted the way he was lying so he wouldn’t wake up with a stiff neck. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

There were mornings when Jon Snow did not quite believe it himself, when he woke up thinking surely this was some mad dream. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I woke up from seeing men die and hearing the sounds of their cries. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having Father gone was strange, the tavern seemed cold and empty, the way it is when you wake up at night and realize that the fires have gone out. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up tired after all my dreaming. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Grandma wakes up when the doorbell rings, and she goes to greet Mom. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They both remembered waking up that morning in the fall of ninth grade, absolutely sure. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Get dressed and wake up Mustafa,” she says as she wipes her nose. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She slept for eighteen hours, while Nately dashed about the apartment all the next morning shushing everybody in sight, and when she woke up she was deeply in love with him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

How can I wake up tired? she wondered as she buried her face in her pillow and dozed off. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I thought I had died—I woke up in a white-walled world, and it had to be heaven. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up again at seven, still wearing my glasses. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With everyone’s thoughts on the stranger waking up from her coma, it proved easy. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Johnny will be fine when he wakes up. But for Christ’s sweet sake, don’t nag him when he wakes up. Don’t nag him, Katie.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She woke up to a dark, overcast rainy morning. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I keep thinking I might wake up and find him cold like the others,” she said one day in the cookhouse. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up with a start, as if Ravi had burst a balloon in my ears. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d wake up with sore knees because I couldn’t stretch out and extend my legs. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Some days I wake up wondering if I’m adopted. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

You always woke up in the instant before you hit the ground. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

That morning, May 2, 1963, I woke up and dressed for school as usual. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I scream and argue until everyone hates me, then I wake up in tears from how real it feels. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Five minutes after waking up, I was climbing away from the bivouac. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought maybe if I held her she would wake up. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Now Joon wakes up and kicks the back of the driver’s seat. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She whimpered something in her sleep but didn’t wake up. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I woke up, I lit up the face of my thrift store watch and couldn’t believe how long I had napped. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how a room like this would be for waking up in the morning. But it’s really a splendid room.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I was glad to wake up, glad to see morning stream in through the window in shimmering strips the color of a ripe orange. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When he woke up again, he was tied to the bed in the hospital back in prison. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew he would fall dead and wake up in the stories of his village and people. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than one of the residents had dreamed of gorging on a magnificent banquet, only to wake up devastated. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But he woke up when I kissed him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Birdie, whose smile never looked fake, who never wondered if anyone would show up at her academic decathlon, who never woke up in one house and went to sleep in another. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Everything felt unreal in that moment, like a bad dream I couldn’t wake up from. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There’s a time just before you wake up when your brain thinks all the bad things that have happened only happened in your sleep. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Janie dozed off to sleep but she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

It all started well enough, with us waking up to the aroma of homemade flour tortillas wafting through the house. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

‘With this one you would be waking up screaming all over!’ the BFG said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked over it again to make sure which one was the culprit and told me to avoid it so Vera wouldn’t wake up. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

What if we get too cold while sleeping and don't wake up in time to save ourselves? We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In the morning I woke up feeling pasty. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The next time I woke up it was just starting to get light and somehow I was in the front seat and Momma was in the back. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went to bed early, but in the middle of the night I woke up. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s waking up from anesthesia after getting her biopsy. It says she feels fine.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

‘I get a little nosebleed and I wake up the entire earth? That’s not fair!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was buzzing around the room when I woke up. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Saturday morning, I wake up before my mom and dad. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He would still wake up at night thinking, My God, there’s been an exposure. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He talked about waking up at the Wolf House with no memories except for one name—Annabeth. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I woke up to a burning flashlight beam stabbing my eyes as Joey Cosentino thumbed one of my eyelids up and whispered, “Nah, he’s alive.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He’ll have to wake up and see his house and the field in the morning light. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I woke up soggy and congested, my nasal cavity smelling faintly of blood. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up to the smell of pancakes and bacon. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I must’ve woken up several times, but what I heard and saw made no sense, so I just passed out again. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Even if you get to marry the prince, you still wake up in the morning with your mouth tasting like drain cleaner and your hair all flat on one side. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some mornings, I still wake up and examine my skin for signs that my treatments are working. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

When I woke up, they were both gone. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Every morning I’d wake up and Byron would be looking down at me. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that was the beginning of a day—Ernie’s birthday and the Fourth of July—where the only normal thing to happen the next twenty-four hours was that Ernie woke up with his sunglasses on. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It seemed that I could not wake up. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dark again when he woke up. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Imagine what your family will say when they wake up and realize you saved the world!” said Aru. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

That they would wake up one morning and realize they wanted another chance. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He opened his eyes to a bright blue sky and clouds that were full, but very high: and for an instant he was waking up years before, on a nameless island in the Pacific. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t until the yelling got going that I woke up....” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I had the feeling at times that our home, Miss Whitlaw, and Robin would all be gone the next morning when I woke up. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, we woke up and swarmed to breakfast. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Inside, I try not to take up too much space or make any noise, because if I do, I may wake up the darkness, and I want the darkness to sleep. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I remember vaguely the “we” from when I first woke up, the two of them a united front for the first time since Abby’s death. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Plum woke up and said, “Hey, Mamma, whyn’t you go on back to bed? I’m all right. Didn’t I tell you? I’m all right. Go on, now.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

On the third night she wakes up only to realize that she is dead. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he woke up at noon on Wednesday, June 17, Burger told him that Quirin and Heinck were "sore" with him and suspicious. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Aunty Silver gives me a few idlis for Rani when she wakes up, and I continue to gobble up as many as I can stuff into my stomach. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“I just woke up one day and realized it. Like I told that guy in the store, I have nothing to lose because nothing belongs to me.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When Sam finally woke up, I fed him rice balls and water. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

"When I woke up one was kicking me in the face... I got an awful bloody face, I think, Ralph. But I did him in the end." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They would wake up at the same time, have the urge to go to the bathroom at the same time, suffer the same upsets in health, and they even dreamed about the same things. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I woke up one day with a plan. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He heard nothing until he woke up to a most disagreeable noontime the next day. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I wake up out of my months-long sleep, I find the course of my life has narrowed right down, and I feel myself rushing along it like a flood of rich, red mud. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I want is to crawl back into bed and wake up again, to find out that all of it was just a bad dream. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

As if Frank wouldn’t throw a fit for getting woken up by a blender. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know how long she slept, but when she woke up again and looked out over the edge of the ear, the landscape had changed completely. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up, open my eyes, understand that it is a new morning, a new place. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

But I still wake up early to watch as she sets her hair in hot rollers and applies her makeup. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he woke up, he repeated what little he could remember, a verse from Hebrews about Enoch: “Taken up so he should not see death; and he was not found.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was still dark when he woke up, and he could feel flakes of snow blowing in the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Lace, wake up,” I said, touching her flip-flop with my shoe. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

When I wake up the next morning, the first thought that goes through my mind is that I hope Ziggy is back with Mae. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

But this morning, I’d woken up to a yellow paper taped to the door of my apartment, its words printed in the largest font you can imagine. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was Lily telling me to wake up. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

You probably didn’t wake up this morning sensing that the world is poorer, but it is. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I woke up early that morning and lay in bed, looking at the stars and savoring the thought of not going to work and of starting sixth grade for the first time that year. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The first day of school after winter break, I woke up early. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With a hot fudge sundae on order for when he wakes up.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

When Noah woke up he got to hear the whole story from the tattletale brothers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d just sit there quietly, waiting for him to wake up and keep going. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And I think how I used to wake up mad and sad earlier this summer. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

‘Wake up, wake up, Master Holbytla!’ he cried; and at length Merry came out of deep dreams and sat up with a start. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Our sleepy neighborhood is stirring, waking up, and this time I stay on the porch with Sherlock and enjoy it. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I was looking around confused when I woke up from the dream. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Even now, lying on his side on the raft in the evening light—his chest rising and falling as he breathed—he looked like he would wake up any second. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I woke up hours later, Mommy was sitting at the foot of my bed, whipping belt in hand. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dreamed about that girl Ellen dancing and rubbing up against me and when I woke up the sheets were wet and messy. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Like this morning just after I woke up, I was laying in bed with my eyes open. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Minli woke up when the sun was high in the sky and burning with light. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was going to be impossible to calm down enough to fall back asleep, not when I might wake up plummeting to the ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“She’ll show up, all right. From what Mami tells me, that woman is so stuck up, one day she is going to wake up a mirror. Loves attention. I hate her already.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He dreamed of the Uttle house, of Celia, of a meadow so intensely green, it made him cry when he woke up. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time since Joe had died, he was not the first thing that she thought about when she woke up. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ride isn’t more than fifteen minutes, but I wake up in front of our house, my head resting easy on her shoulder, my feet curled up underneath me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I woke up crying and Mommy came and stayed in bed with me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But then I wake up in our nation of two, enclosed in our mosquito tent’s slanted planes lit silver by moonlight, and always think of Bulungu, where we first lay together like this. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She woke up very agitated and asked Ferula to help her dress because she had to go find her mother’s head. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recall that I woke up early, for some reason, and couldn’t go back to sleep. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it pressed down uncomfortably on my tongue, and sometimes it would pop off during the night and I’d wake up choking on it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Chess fell asleep Friday night feeling like he had a weight pressing down on his heart, and he woke up Saturday morning feeling like the weight had done nothing but grow overnight. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I wake up to the scratchy sound of jazz coming from downstairs. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I wake up to Tats scraping and flicking her dried nail polish, sitting beside me on Mom’s bed. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

There is Michah's tent; God knows who is waking up with him this morning. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Toby wasn’t sure how long they’d been sitting in front of the small white house when he woke up and scrambled out of the car to throw up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He’d woken up with this sword his first night at the Wolf House—two months ago? The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

On a cold grey morning in 1968 I woke up and found the world deep in mourning. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the operating room I was given anesthesia, and the next thing I recalled was waking up in a room with the doctor present. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zitty and lonely, I woke up on the reservation as an Indian, and somewhere on the road to Reardan, I became something less than Indian. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was barely getting light and the birds just beginning to wake up and sing when I tiptoed downstairs in my Sunday suit and my new linen duster. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The same night that his authority was recognized by all the rebel commands, he woke up in a fright, calling for a blanket. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s Sunday and we kinda owe it to Jesus to go to church on his birthday, none of us wake up until around eleven so we miss service. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He fell into an exhausted sleep, and woke up to a house that was full of aunts and uncles, cousins and old friends, all eager to hear about his year. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I woke up I don’t know how much later. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I wake up, it’s past midnight, and someone has covered me with an afghan. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It must be something that smells like bacon, and I wish it didn’t because it’s made my stomach wake up, and my stomach is saying it wants food right now, right this minute.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“A mercy, Lord. Throw me down a mercy, please, Lord. She’s going to wake up every Trotter, Charles, and Gaither with this old stuff.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

After a restless night of helpless-animal dreams, I woke up and went downstairs to find Dad crying on the couch. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Frank woke up as a python, which puzzled him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I woke up in the dark to the sound of an explosion. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When he wakes up, we want you to watch everything he does. We’ll need a report.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

When I wake up, I barely get to the toilet before the white liquor makes its reappearance. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next memory she had was of waking up in that tub six miles from home and pulling a tired old cat from the water she was floating in. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Next morning Lyra woke up from a dream in which Pantalaimon had come back to her and revealed his final shape; and she had loved it, but now she had no idea what it was. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Handling an unconscious monkey in Level 4 is a tricky operation, because monkeys can wake up, and they have teeth and a powerful bite, and they are remarkably strong and agile. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scheduled flights were delayed by hours, security took an unprecedented length of time, the flight itself was terrifying, but on Saturday morning when Aimee woke up, her mother was standing in her bedroom doorway. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“I woke up,” I say, “and everyone was under the simulation. So I played along until I found Tobias.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The police say your sister never even woke up,” my father said. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up one Saturday morning to see a shallow flood coming down the road past the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I finally, truly, wake up, the restraints are gone. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You shouldn’t be up, sir. Doctor said you weren’t likely to wake up at all. You should rest.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

‘I did use the word, waking up out of my sleep sudden and all and finding him at hand. I said I was sorry, but I soon shan’t be.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

At a US embassy party in Bogotá, Colombia, he drank so much that he stumbled through the gardens and woke up the next morning on the sidewalk next to his apartment. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about that now, Bella. You can argue with me when you wake up.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I know that, Harry, but if she wakes up and the locket’s gone—I need to duplicate it—Geminio! There...That should fool her....” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It’d been another day on the run, another day being woken up by strangers in our space, and then, at the same time, a day unlike any other we’d had. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

On Saturday, Naomi woke up hungry for the river before the sun was even up. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d woken up this morning revitalized, determined to see their mission through. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She was already awake—she believed in waking up with the dawn whenever possible—when she heard the bells of a Buddhist monastery chime from her phone. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He did this until sleep finally took him, and as soon as he woke up the next morning, he began to recite the scripture once more. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s getting time to wake up Mom and Dad.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tucked the second half of the cookie back into its foil wrapper to give to Otto once he woke up. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Chess woke up in the middle of the night with aches in his legs. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I woke up in my bunk, but how I got there I don’t know. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was raining when Fina and I woke up, but now the air is clean and there’s a breeze whipping around the bright morning like Boomer zigzagging after a squirrel. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I woke up suddenly in the middle of the night, having had a vivid dream. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Uriah was standing right in front of one of the explosives they set off as diversions. He’s unconscious and they’re not sure he’ll wake up.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Dad said the wing would take weeks to mend, and that the owl would wake up long before then. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we fell asleep and then woke up to finish where we’d left off. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I screamed when I saw that man’s face at the window, and my mom woke up when I did. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

But even if I’d woken up one morning with a raging fever, I never would have admitted it to Mom. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She reached inside and caught the monkey by the upper arms and rotated him so that he was facing away from her, so that he couldn’t bite her if he woke up. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she woke up it was raining, and she was lying in a ravine full of bomb craters. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Just cover for me if Dad wakes up, okay?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It seemed possible that nobody had ever woken up to find a small child sitting behind the curtains on his or her window-sill. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Sunday morning I woke up to the smell of coffee land breakfast cooking. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Who knows—her mind was doing all kinds of weird stuff when she woke up. Maybe we all went through that in the Box, talking gibberish before we came totally awake. Just let her out.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Not a morning dawned that she didn’t wake up eager to get to the office. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I doze off for a little longer after my parents leave, sleeping off the last bit of the fogginess, and when I wake up an hour later, I’m fully out of the anesthesia haze. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Malcolm cut a thick slice for himself and another for Alice, and carved some cheese to go with them as the woman Doris Whicher woke up nearby and looked around blearily. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He has to wake up and beat her up and then when he goes back to sleep she hits him again. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry Potter rolled over inside his blankets without waking up. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

‘Oh yes, he is!’ said Merry, waking up a little, and beginning to wonder what was bothering his companion. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We danced all night and returned before Uncle woke up. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to wake up in the morning, and I was afraid to go to sleep at night. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I felt surer the next day, late in the afternoon, when he finally woke up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Today I woke up thinking about Kazi and followed the smells of breakfast into the kitchen. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But waking up at three in the morning wasn’t even the worst part. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The French Quarter woke up around them, ready for Mardi Gras. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When I woke up this morning, the trailer hadn't popped yet. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, I kept thinking about Mr. Neely and taking charge—and I’m not sure how, but apparently I managed to fall asleep, because I woke up to the sound of my phone ringing. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I’ve woken up in this building thousands of times—in my old place or Sneaky’s. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to wake up early just to see them leave. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I have just woken up and I’m clammy with sweat. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So, for many young men in South Africa’s townships, freedom looks like this: Every morning they wake up, maybe their parents go to work or maybe not. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When they woke up, the natural scenes had gone. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

They woke up one morning and the bright sun was shining. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“This is enough for tonight. Come, before they wake up,” it said, and then held the white quartz crystal close to its mouth. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Two years older than Sophia, she fell into a deep sleep after her fifteenth birthday, and hasn't woken up for four years. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

For the same reason that a high-school quarterback wakes up at 5 a.m. to lift weights. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Every night, he wakes up shouting that someone is going to kill him, kill us all. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Despite our efforts to shoo them away, the local children spend hours staring at the bonobos and trying to get them to wake up. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The descriptive sort of linguist tends to observe change in the language, note it, analyse it and manage not to wake up screaming every night. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

This morning I wake up and see it flashing through my half-open bedroom door. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Radar says, “God, did you wake up this morning and drink eighteen gallons of water?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“And that when she woke up and saw her eye was missing, she found the East Siders,” said Tree. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“You’re waking up this whole side of town with that thing! You’ve already waked your father, and he didn’t get two winks last night. Stop it right now!” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Pop Pop wakes up, hobbles his way to the kitchen, and says, “Mornin’, Miss America. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Already the memory of the boy feels like a dream you try to remember the very first moment you wake up. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Julian did not wake up even when they stopped for gas in Oneonta. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

After twenty-five minutes, a drunk man sleeping on a bench woke up and began to sing loudly: Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When I waked up I was back in my bed and it was very dark. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I knew this was some made-up garbage, I knew the magic powers had decided not to keep the animal alive and Dad had got rid of the body before we woke up. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I wake up to the sound of my mom unzipping and then zipping up our tent. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Aaron woke up Eight Ball jacket and Donna and got them out; he forced Ronny to leave too, over many protests. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

When he woke up again, it was dark, the only illumination coming from a single candle. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She woke up and Tea Cake still wasn’t there and the clock said it was getting late, so she got up and washed her face and hands. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Pita asked, her eyes full of wonder, as if they were starting to wake up to the seriousness of our situation. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When I woke up, I was being dragged through an alley by Derrick. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Will he wake up thinking sweetly of her? Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

All in all, a very pleasant way to wake up. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I had been fasting since I was a little kid when we’d wake up with my parents early in the morning to eat and pray together. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Even this poor little mite, when he woke up to-day, asked the nurse if he might go away. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I didn’t wake up the Ghost or the Roach after Cardan swore his oath. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Or supposed to be asleep — once they woke up, as Ralph knew by peering through the dining room window. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night she sleeps beside him, always rolling onto her stomach, waking up every morning with a pillow pressed over her head. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra woke up and began to complain, and then tasted something strange and smacked her lips. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I want my Pa here in the morning when I wake up! First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy carried me out the sanctuary as I screamed for her to wake up. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Often I would wake up when I heard him come in, and as I went back to sleep, I heard him and Mom talking in low voices. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m close to breaking down because my dad might wake up to a world without me, and I won’t be around to comfort him. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Hassan slammed the door behind him, then slammed the trunk shut a few moments later, and as Colin wiped the sleep from his eyes, he figured he might as well wake up. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he just woke up and said, ‘Screw it,’ and hopped on a train to, I dunno, New Mexico or something,” Ada suggested, running her fingers lightly through my hair, my head in her lap. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Ash woke up suddenly and scrambled onto her knees, blinking rapidly. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, just as she was about to show me the exact location, I woke up. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy with the lime-colored hair wakes up when he falls out of his chair. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

This went on for a long time, so that even though I didn’t want to, I fell asleep, and next thing, a rooster was crowing and I woke up next to Delsa. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure what would happen if Lice Peeking woke up, and I wanted to be ready to run. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I slept under there, and when I woke up the sun was shining, the 'Hallelujah Chorus’ was playing on the radio, and people were still dancing.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she wakes up, we eat turkey from last night and some bean salad. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“He’ll wake up at daybreak, and I simply cannot bear another day like today.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I wake up, the train has stopped—can I really have slept through the screeching brakes? Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

After a week of stalling, I wake up Sunday morning with one goal—to call Roger and set up the acupuncture session. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mom woke up and told Dad to stay calm. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She woke up and in seconds pinned me down and pressed her face to mine and said, “So what’s up, Doc? You gonna be even or odd today?” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning after we buried the sparrow, I woke up on fire with a fever. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

On Sunday morning I am woken up by a rumble of thunder and Boomer—who hates thunderstorms—inching closer to me in bed. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I start to get that this might be a dream and when I wake up, my father will be dead again. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I woke up in the middle of the night, and when I opened my eyes there was Mong. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

What did they mean?—noticing them, thinking about them, waking up, for God’s sake. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And on the rare nights when he could arrange his body around the springs, he still woke up sore and twisted. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When I woke up, a Wendy’s hamburger was sitting in my lap with a note. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I howled into the wind: “They’re dead! They will never wake up! Never! Do you understand?” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That first night when I was watching you sleep. When you woke up and looked at me, I could just tell. You did something bad. Something that’s gonna stay with you forever.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

At night, he couldn’t sleep on account of the pain, and he would wake up at three o’clock in the morning, and get out of bed, and rummage around the house, looking for something. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after that he went downstairs, kicking the banisters with his feet—a thing he knew he should not do as it waked up everybody else in the house. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Auntie was against it because Pinkie had black-out spells, and she said, “The whole herd of sheep could wander onto the tracks and get hit by the Santa Fe Super Chief before Pinkie woke up.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m beginning to wonder if Teach woke up. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Trust him to wake up at the sound of a cork being pulled. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I was afraid that he might disappear in a sudden puff of smoke, and I would wake up. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Late one night we woke up to a house filled with smoke. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I feel full, powerful, like I haven’t felt since I woke up. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The eastern horizon was brightening every single second, and Nali was sure to wake up soon. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They would wake up a few hours later, when the new batch was born. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It must've been last night, unless whoever it is wakes up early. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

When I finally woke up, I rubbed my eyes and lay there in silence awhile, trying to convince myself that the events of the previous day had actually occurred. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Watson and Crick feared that they would wake up one morning, open the pages of an august scientific journal, and find the solved structure of DNA staring back at them. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I annoyed Wolfie every morning, for I would wake up at five, change into my sweat clothes, and run in place for more than an hour. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Saturday morning comes, I wake up extra early to figure out what the heck I’m going to wear for my shopping trip with Mrs. Walton. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

That night in the hotel Sonia wakes up screaming that her own thumbs are missing. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Also, waking up to a snow day is just about my favorite thing in the world. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I cry myself back to sleep, wishing, pleading, praying that I’ll wake up from this, but the same nightmare always awaits me. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I wake up at dawn and put a pot a Community coffee on the stovetop. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I woke up this morning and felt like I was on an acid trip. I’m itching all over and I don’t know why.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The other part of me, the one who’s been thinking of another drink since I woke up this morning, answers. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

One time in the night I woke up and knew that Catherine was awake too. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I was surprised she didn’t wake up, though, because Aunt Ophelia was complaining really loudly. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Blood was coming out of one ear, and when I woke up it was like I’d slept for three days and I wasn’t quite sure what year it was. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The city was waking up as we walked toward the teashop. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

His yelling threatened to wake up one-year-old Nikki, and Joy tried to shush him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t rightly know, Jacob. I woke up a few days ago and my feet was all floppy. Jes’ can’t feel ’em right.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

As soon as I wake up the next day, I’m ready to go back down to the Hideout to respond to the latest message on the wall. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I can’t tell you what was different this time around, only that when I woke up, I felt deader than usual. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Early one morning, I wake up with dread and panic. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got all the help I need, these two turkeys ever wake up.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

When she woke up she thought only about doing the family washing. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He raps about final goodbyes, nightmares we want to wake up from, and the inevitable squeeze of Death. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I woke up with my heart pounding hard in my chest. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Years ago, Lupa had taught her how to sleep lightly, wake up alert and be ready to attack. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He said to Lyra, “I suppose you’re just waking up, are you? It’s all right for some. It’s a nice life being a baby.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She said, “Lazlo. You have to wake up now, my love.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A train whistled in the distance; it would soon rumble over them with a sound like waking up to a thunderstorm. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He’s not exactly known for his sweet nature when he wakes up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I’d dream about you and wake up in a cold sweat.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And then she told Hazel that it was time to wake up. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“But I miss Cynthia so much. Could you just make the pain go away? It hurts to wake up in the morning, and I am so afraid.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I think he had been having a bad dream just before he woke up, but he did not say any-thing about it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

When Marly woke up the next morning, there was another miracle right outside her window. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The water seemed to wake up my senses, as if I’d just had a bag of my mom’s double-espresso jelly beans. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

But I wouldn’t find out much about it right then, because Jeffrey woke up right at that instant and knocked on the car window. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rafters of the Zaal shook, and from their perches up in the dark a score of sleeping birds woke up in fear and flapped their wings, and little showers of dust drifted down. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

After I went to sleep and woke up again in the airplane Mr. Axelroot told us what all we could see from up there looking down: Hippos in the river. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I woke up feeling uneasy about dropping my medical school plans, but I didn’t have time to dwell on it, because there was little room in my schedule for indecision. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I doze off, and, when I wake up, I see the sun rising in a but­termilk sky through the window next to the nurses’ station. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There are still times I wake up at three o'clock in the morning and peer into the darkness. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

By the time the first light of the sun crept into the cave, Dragon’s breathing was rough; when Minli shook him, he did not wake up. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I woke up early and packed my backpack, making sure I had everything Trevor and I needed. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

When, a week or so later, she woke up in pain, a sharp stinging on her side and a great, sickening nausea pervading her body, she panicked. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Make sure you close the curtains again, you. If you sleep in that moonlight you’ll wake up blind.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The next morning I woke up later than usual, probably because I hadn't gone to sleep until four in the morning. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Every time you see it you get fooled into thinking his girlfriend might wake up and stop him. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“He or she could also help you keep pace with what you want to read. When you wake up, you will find the completed summary in your in-box.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I wake up, still saying the words out loud. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

My mouth started to water and my stomach woke up. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"If you wanted me to wake up, you could've just tapped me." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“After you went to bed. I didn’t think Phoebe would wake up. She never does!” I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

But when I tried to bail, Astelle woke up and followed me to the front door. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Married life had been fine for a year or two, then McGarrity woke up one morning and found that it was no good. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up to the patter of rain on Caitlin’s balcony. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I wish the world were like this, if I just woke up and marked the food I’d be eating and it came to me later in the day. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

You think you were going to wake up at three in the morning and throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge without staying up all night? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Why are you keeping her here? And why don’t you let her wake up?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

One night, she let out a yelp to wake up her husband beside her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I am not alone when I wake up the next morning. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The next morning I wake up in the same room. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The next day I woke up really early. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The first night they woke up the prisoners at two in the morning and made them do pushups, line up against the wall, and perform other arbitrary tasks. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as he was about to move, Mrs. Coulter woke up. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He thought about waking up Bri and Julie and telling them to go with him, but decided it wouldn’t be worth the chaos. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, it was as if God had just remade the world for him, and he was Adam waking up, an entire globe to explore. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The next morning I woke up early and checked my email first thing. lidewij.vliegenthart@gmail.com had finally replied. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when I climbed on top of the Object she would almost wake up. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He began waking up every morning in a cold sweat, thinking, Maybe today. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“On the hill. When we wake up. Okay. I can do that.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Most nights I’d wake up three or four times gasping for breath, feeling like I was suffocating. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

That first day I felt quiet as a lamb and went to bed early and didn’t wake up until the next morning at ten. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is a blank—a sleepwalker waking up. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

My father did not want me to wake up in a strange country without my family there. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Pull you out of sleep and you wake up on the ground under a tree you’ll never locate again because you’re lost. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It appeared and dissolved like a dream almost before anyone had a chance to wake up. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was likely to say no if she woke up and thought about it. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“If you speak out too much against police corruption, you wake up with a machete in your back,” says Father Rigoni. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Pedestrians woke up and stared uncomprehendingly at the monsters and zombies all around them. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Early the next morning, I woke up and skipped downstairs to have breakfast. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than wake up Audrey, I left her a note and borrowed her bicycle. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I woke up this morning all alive with a new idea and filled with hope, and I ran to wake Mom. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At sunrise, the monkeys stir and wake up, and you hear their cries as they greet the sun. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the sleeping Muslims woke up, when dawn had broken, they almost instantly became aware of me, and we watched each other while they went about their business. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She feels like a circus clown who wakes up one morning and no longer wants to glue on the red rubber nose. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I woke up with my head against the window and pulled off the headphones. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I know I just woke up, but I am exhausted. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

We shoot up the grandpa zombie—and wake up the entire prison and walking dead. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

What I was worried about was if I would ever wake up when the fight was over. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours later we woke up sweaty and anxious and once more walked as fast as we could, given how exhausted and starving we were, in a kind of hollow desperate silence. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could wake up every morning and put on eye makeup, the way Em did. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She woke up several times to sniff the roses and change the water. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Hazel felt bad asking them to take care of her, but she’d woken up parched and exhausted, as if she’d lived the last few hours in both the past and the present. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“If the Sleeper is going to try and wake up the Lord of Destruction, he’ll need the celestial weapons,” said Hanuman. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Doha, you woke up? Come eat,” his grandmother said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

As usual, I had gotten up early in the morning, and I was sitting on the flat stone behind the house waiting for the city to wake up. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And can you fix me so that I don’t hurt so much when I wake up each morning? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’m about to jet back to my room as fast as I can—before somebody wakes up and catches me—but something else in the trunk grabs my eye. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“I woke up and I knew something was different,” she tells me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Suppose you wake up some morning and find your sister dead? What would you think then?” she asked. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even though she was in our parents’ bed, Caroline woke up in the middle of the night, terrified. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It was hot work, and the corn shucks made my skin itch and sting till sometimes I’d wake up at night scratching like I’d stumbled into a patch of bull nettles. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

They linger there on the edge of your consciousness like the things you hear just as you’re waking up, before the dream collapses under the crushing weight of the real world. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when he comes back late at night and kisses me good night in my sleep, I wake up and see him. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“When Lucifer wakes up in hell, it's not sorrow he feels, is it?” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I can smell the dough and hear the rolling pin from my bedroom when I wake up. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But as they were approaching, the two girls happened to wake up. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Ohio gave a snort, but he didn’t wake up. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

And it’s a good thing for both of us I did; I woke up jus’ in time to help y’all on your journey.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Her voice is deep and raspy, like she just woke up from a long nap. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Every day I wake up is beautiful,” Gran said, and chuckled. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“When 1 woke up the coast was clear. Now I look back on it my head must be getting soft not to lock and barricade the door when I’m in here.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would sleep until noon if she had her way, and she inevitably woke up cranky. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I was just about to complain about being woken up when her words made it all the way to my brain. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

For the third day in a row, I wake up to the sound of Mama humming and something sizzling. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Does that mean he will get sleepy at dusk and wake up at dawn? Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wakes up at night screaming with nightmares. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Every day, we would wake up and our mom would already be gone. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But when the child opened its throat into a full-fledged wail, Xan woke up with a start. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The baby, who had slept through all the clamour, woke up now in the sudden hush and began squalling. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Morning comes and I wake up to Charlie shoving me over and over again. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

"She was probably too scared to get up in case Bo woke up—imagine the fuss he would have made." The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was two in the afternoon and Bobby had just woken up. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I hope Elizabeth isn’t asking this because she doesn’t think Dad will wake up to tell her himself. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Old as that album was back then, it was like waking up after being asleep my whole life. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

One morning she woke up coughing, eyes watering, feeling sick, hot, utterly miserable. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds lulled Janie to soft slumber and she woke up with Tea Cake combing her hair and scratching the dandruff from her scalp. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I have red shoes and tomorrow I will wake up and I will still be here. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

But my father did not wake up, nor did he call my name. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He looked like a kid now—his watery brown eyes, the fear and fatigue in his face, like a kid waking up from a nightmare or something. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A bomb suddenly explodes in the video, and Mr. Blankenship wakes up for about half a second. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But I wasn’t a fan of waking up against my will. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Well, you drank my sleeping medicine. Maybe you wouldn’t wake up easily.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This is the irony: Even though I wake up in a different body every morning, I’ve always felt in some way that I am in control. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“What if your dad wakes up and sees us?” whispered George, looking over at Kelly’s father asleep on the daybed. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

James dropped into a chair and shook the mouse to wake up the computer. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Camels,” by which I presently understood he meant Camilla, “she have five pound fur to buy rushlights to put her in spirits when she wake up in the night.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly I just wake up every day and do the same thing: get out of bed, put on clean clothes, and stay in the house. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was always waking up just about sunset, when I wanted to take a snooze. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

She passed some smelling salts under the old lady’s nose, making her flinch and moan, but she didn’t wake up. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m not asking you to side with me over her here. I’m asking you to stand tall for yourself and wake up before it’s too late.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just close your eyes and think about the morning you woke up on your tenth birthday.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When I woke up, I was drenched in sweat. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

By the time he wakes up, hung-over, at three in the morning, she has vanished from the room, and he is unable to recall her name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he woke up the sky above was dim, not lighter but darker than when they had breakfasted. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I had a hard time waking up on Sunday, and Marie had to call me and shake me. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I stood in the sliver of light coming through their open doorway, waiting to see if they would wake up. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I’ve been feeling this way since waking up in Jupiter's bed a week ago on the day after Thanksgiving, and it’s very confusing. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He wished he could just go to bed and not wake up until September. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I would wake up screaming in terror. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt wondered whether the Keepers had managed to wake up from their drugged sleep. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moments when Jaimito wakes up babbling to himself and then, when he sees me, lights up with a smile. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how to wake up in a boy’s house and talk to the girl with whom he had a relationship. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I woke up before I reached him, fingers already anticipating the soft warmth of his flank. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Mary died and woke up, and the angels carried her up there in swirling clouds. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

When I woke up in the dull, sunless heat the next morning, I dressed and splashed my face with cold water and put on some lipstick and opened the door slowly. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The man behind the Refreshments Counter, who’d been asleep on a row of stools, waiting for the interval, woke up. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day isn’t any better, and I make sure Helena has her hand on me before she wakes up. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Ever since I remember, even on the cold mornings when the fire had burned down, I would wake up under a blanket, always with some brothers and sisters next to me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rips a piece off my shirt and ties it on my mouth so I can't be shouting, he says, and wake up the neighborhood. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I woke up in the morning it had stopped snowing and the sun was shining. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Professor Lupin appeared to have woken up at last. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

When I woke up on Monday morning, I remembered the pictures on my camera and wondered how long it would take Celia to find me and kill me after I’d handed them over to Claude. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He sometimes muttered things and always looked like he had just woken up. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was not very long afterwards that Michael woke up one morning with a curious feeling inside him. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Then, shaking my arm, he said, in a very different, gentle tone, ‘Wake up, my friend, wake up,’ unaware I’d been awake long enough to have heard him discussing me like a cut of meat. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I immediately woke up from my dream and began shooting inside the tent, until the thirty rounds in the magazine were finished. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I know it’s morning, and I know you just woke up. But we have to sleep now.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No, but I keep him in my closet in case I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep,” I said. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You ever think this is just a nightmare and someday you’ll wake up and things’ll be the way they were before?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

And I wasn’t the least bit concerned about waking up dead. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I hardly think she will confess to showing humans the Book. In any case, I mixed a slight amnesiac into her second injection. When she finally wakes up, the last week will be a blur.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Her brothers and sisters wouldn’t wake up, and besides, this would only take a couple of minutes. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

And then he put on that retro Lone Ranger tune, something he liked to play every morning because he thought it was a hip way to wake up the world. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Seven weeks earlier, at the end of April, Jule woke up in a youth hostel on the outskirts of London. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I woke up screaming and holding my burning left arm—my left arm, where the Nazis had carved B-3087 into my skin. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The Sabbath begins when I wake up, I reasoned, and kept working. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Go past him, cast yourself before my mother, embrace her knees—and you may wake up soon at home rejoicing, though your home be far. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But if you is taking these sloshbuckling noisy bellypoppers any closer, all the giants is waking up at once and then pop goes the weasel.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We both woke up at the same time to the buzzing jangle of the alarm clock. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She asks me if my parents have given me any Tylenol, and I tell her no, not since I woke up. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It felt like waking up to a perfect sunrise. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She let out a laugh that in other times frightened the doves and that now did not even wake up the children. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But I never really woke up till dawn. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up at faint light, guilt heavy on my chest. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

If I keep repeating this, maybe I’ll wake up from this nightmare. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Maybeth and James woke up immediately when she spoke their names. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

My voice is raspy and quiet because I don't want to wake up Jamie’s parents. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The next thing I remember I was waking up back in the backseat and Momma was saying real, real Southern, “Babies, we home!” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

This morning, I woke up early and ran into my parents’ room, shaking them awake just like I do every Christmas. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Not only didn’t he eat for a couple of days, it was weeks afore he slept through a whole night without terrorfying me and Ma by waking up screaming and begging someone to stop. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

In the morning, I wake up feeling depressed and guilty. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Daugherty stayed the night at Dr. Bottom’s house so she would be there when Joel woke up. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They look like the type of family who tell each other they love each other when they go to bed, and when they wake up, and before they go to work. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I wake up late on Friday and rush to the bathroom to wet my hair and brush my teeth. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I dreamed about that lunch often and when I did I was glad to wake up. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what time the family is going to wake up.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He knew that he would not wake up some time later, after death, and sigh at how simple and foolish his dream had been. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He stretched and grumbled out a groggy command: “Make sure you be quiet when you leave so you don’t wake up my mother.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The old man in the corner woke up and said: "You can't never tell at sea—never!" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

But when I woke up, I didn’t remember that for weeks. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your father woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning,” Moms said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Nina dreamed of being burned alive on a pyre and woke up screaming. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Come have some water. This is the best well in all of Mexico. It’s so cold and fresh, it could wake up the dead.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Until you wake up and remember that what you’ve always been afraid of has already come true. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The tiny electric stings felt like a sleeping limb waking up. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I wake up with dragonflies zipping through my gut. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But sitting in Jason’s cabin, waiting for him to wake up, she felt alone and helpless. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mom hadn’t woken up the next day and decided to quit waitressing. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I woke up one morning determined to spill my guts to him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My shaking got so bad, the entire house would wake up. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“She wakes up at noon and has lunch directly!” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

So I woke up early that morning, left the house, and looked at the sky. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I sit up in bed and force myself to wake up. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up half an hour later, when she sat down on my bed, her butt against my hip. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He remained in the doorway, fearful that she’d wake up if he took another step. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

One classmate of Marita’s, a boy named Jose, said he sometimes wakes up at three or four a.m., finishes his homework from the night before, and then “goes back to sleep for a bit.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She told him that they were going to have to wake up early so that they could work in the cornfield before it got too hot. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We wake up in the middle of the night. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sorrowed in their dreaming and they sorrowed in their waking up. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I snuck out. I’m not there when they wake up, they’ll figure I’m out running, like usual. Ain’t you afraid in there?” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I were to say, I want to wake up, would I wake up right now? If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex wakes up to find his bunk empty and made up, the pillow tucked neatly beneath the blanket. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He woke up for a moment, clutched her tightly and begged her not to leave him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Time to wake up Dad for your shot.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I wake up to the smell of coffee and freshly baked pastries. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

By nature, he was a timid man, yet timid or bold he would go on printing, begging the people of Massachusetts to wake up and resist this tyranny before it was too late. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would wake up staring into her eyes as she played with my hair. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Of what it must have been like to wake up this morning and find me gone, only to have a stranger waltz in and ruin her hair. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

How is this the same me that woke up this morning in a bunk bed? What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She lived to see him turn four, and then, one morning, she just did not wake up. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As all this is going on, George Atzerodt wakes up at dawn on Saturday morning. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up Dad to give Fig his shot. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I was so upset I woke up Minerva. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At exactly that moment I would generally wake up, terribly shaken.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Again he did not wake up, nor, this time, even open his eyes. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Eventually I woke up and I wrote this letter. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When we woke up Saturday morning, I said, “Okay.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wake up the next morning and resume our journey once more. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hugged, tight and warm and full of the promise he’d made upon waking up. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He woke up the next morning when something light fell on his shirt—he opened his eyes. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

With that thought she woke up completely, the memory of the last several months flooding back into her with depressing efficiency. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

You wake up at four a.m. hungry, so you eat. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When Ash woke up, Gwen was still asleep, and the early dawn light was sliding through the gaps in the shutters over the dormer window. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that day when the police officers came to the door, Chess remembered lots and lots of nights when he woke up and heard Mom crying. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When they came back that evening, Mom went out and looked at them again, and that night she woke up many times to go out to be with them. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

She woke up in the morning, freckled with bites, cobwebs covering her eyes, her mouth, and nose. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I give him a minute to wake up. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Other boys would wake up and start choking whoever was in the bed next to theirs; they would then go running into the night after they had been restrained. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When Mama woke up, her eyes were glowing. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“That hurts — get off— ouch —” “Harry Potter must wake up, sir!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I woke up with a scream trapped in my throat. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When we woke up today and went to work, me and Rondell acted like nothing ever happened with us. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I shook my head no, gently, so the sleeping puppy wouldn’t wake up. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

When he tried to explain this, Hermione said, “That’s just the exams. I woke up last night and was halfway through my Transfiguration notes before I remembered we’d done that one.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I wake up early with a bad feeling and lift my head. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He felt like he’d woken up from one nightmare, only to be locked inside a new one. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

We woke up this morning to unusually cold weather. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face is ripped, his head is bashed, he’s sinking into shallow water without ever waking up. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I don't know what time it was or anything, but I woke up. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

And then spring came, and I woke up with all those brand-new blooming buds. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Wait a minute,” Drake says as though he’s just waking up. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The children woke up and they were huddled together crying and I started to cry. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since he was a small child he had the custom of leaving his hammock and waking up in Amaranta’s bed, because contact with her was a way of overcoming his fear of the dark. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She heard a man’s voice saying, “You’ve got to trust her. When she has those sleeps you have to leave her alone till she wakes up, she’ll wake up pretty soon.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Voice in my head made me wake up, but I can’t remember what it said or how I got here. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I wake up it’s the middle of the night. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe, if I go to sleep, I will wake up back in District 12, where I belong. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When I wake up the next morning, my jaw aches like I spent the night clenching it, grinding my teeth together. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When we woke up the next morning, all the smoked meat was gone. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Even though we didn’t get a lot of sleep last night, Fina and I both woke up bright and early today. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The first time Pong nearly drowned, he woke up to a chicken. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

"I woke up and you were gone," he says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And then I wake up fully and think, What if he was really here? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Hazel woke up to her mother’s knock on the door and a gentle whisper, “You don’t have to get up. School’s canceled.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

One Saturday morning I woke up and discovered his car gone, Charlie’s bed empty. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

When I woke up Bill was packing the rucksack. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Somehow I know I’m asleep in a dream, but it don’t matter, I can’t make noise and I can’t wake up and I can’t see Mom or Dad or the house. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

After the doctor left, we waited for Father to wake up. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up in a hospital bed, with Amá peering over me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can’t. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner I hurried to get ready for bed and turned out the light hoping I could fall asleep and wake up with one of Gay’s fresh starts. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I went downstairs and slipped out the backdoor, pretending I was going to the outhouse, in case she woke up. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I woke up after surgery, there was a plastic ring around my neck, my right hip hurt, and I had trouble swallowing. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just woke up and saw your messages.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

For these he was still very punctual as a rule, and he seldom failed to wake up in time for them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I knew that sometimes he would wake up choking on his own saliva if he accidentally turned over on his back. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The floor creaked and she woke up and looked at me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed unnatural to wake up before the sun, but that was exactly what she was doing. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“We expected it all to end at any moment. Either the Nazis would find us and shoot us or it was a dream and we would wake up,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I wake up the next morning, my headphones hang lopsided off my head as my dad raps in them. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was like being asleep, except that you didn’t wake up, he thought. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Uhmma jumps a little like she is waking up from a dream. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was still raining the next morning when the men woke up and discovered that two canoes were missing. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Cade was asleep in the lower bunk when I woke up on Saturday morning. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I bought them. And I shall often think of that with peace, when I wake up in the night.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sky went that low, November grey; the puddles grew coats of ice overnight, and one morning when I woke up the fields were white with snow. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been eight and a halfish hours since she woke up on my belly, climbed out of my bed to put her clothes back on, and left my house at six in the morning. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’d wake up one day and not remember her name. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Ma kind of half woke up and grunted. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s after five, sleepyhead. I’ve been waiting here ten minutes for you to wake up.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I woke up ten minutes before the meeting was supposed to start and ran to the showers. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to get dressed before your brothers wake up.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

"Don't die, Bran. Please. We're all waiting for you to wake up. Me and Robb and the girls, everyone ..." Lady Stark was watching. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It takes me a minute to wake up. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I glance at Zeke, who is rubbing his face with his fists to wake up. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Give this to her when she wakes up?” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Does he think she will wake up and run off, relieving him of his choice, if he leaves her alone? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He still does not wake up, but his respiration is down to eighteen per minute, almost normal, and his color has come up from blue to white. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was quietly begging his mother to wake up when it appeared to him that she wasn't breathing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

His brain hadn’t felt right since he had woken up at the Wolf House. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He had made this his habit from the first, and however often Dustfinger moved away the boy was always close beside him when he woke up. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It’s not that I can’t imagine how it happened: Nathan is woken up on the side of the road by a police officer tapping on his window. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The next day, I woke up in an enormous room full of strangers. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I woke up craving orange juice with a little hint of vodka. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was not unusual for the owner of a beautifully decorated and well-kept yard to wake up in the morning and see an empty bag of Lay’s potato chips or Cheez Doodles drifting through. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

When he wakes up after an embarrassing dream, I know about it. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Mama! Mama, wake up,” I urged as I shook her shoulder. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m at a 50 percent rate for smacking my head when I wake up. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every night for a week I woke up in the exact same about-to-be-kissed spot. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

If Loo didn’t wake up, she was to blame. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She woke up at night crying that she could hear her mother’s voice, but of course she couldn’t. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In at least one significant case, Bobby woke up to the fact that the Other was less appealing than he’d first thought. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He needed to wake up, or he would die; but he wasn’t able to hold on to that thought. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I dream we wake up, still holding hands. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Would he wake up in the middle of the night, wondering what was wrong? Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dream of being woken up by that peal of thunder and finding her gone; dream of searching and searching for her under the trees.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew she was real when I woke up the next day and she was still in my arms. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“You probably wouldn’t have died because you would have been able to get out in time. But if your parents are asleep here, the fire might have reached them before they woke up.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Pretty much from the moment he woke up after a bad night, Charley Bloom knew it was going to be one of those Saturdays. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Nothing. Not really. Not until I woke up in the morgue." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“And unless you want to wake up without your manhood, stay away from those two. They’re Hel’s little sisters.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was waking up now although it was still hard for him to leave his sleep. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark twitched in his sleep and almost woke up. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They hurried away before the bees woke up. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I wake up yelling three times a night there’s not much point in trying to hide. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He would wake up in a cold sweat. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that’s when I woke up, my heart pounding, my throat scratchy and dry. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When I wake up I don’t have them anymore and I’m sad. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

How I couldn’t wait to wake up to his face—his beautiful lazy eye, the little bump on his nose, his suggestive dark eyebrows that don’t match his short auburn hair. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I think he’s woken up,” said the woman’s voice. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I told him about wild hogs squealing in my dreams, the sounds of butchery, slaughterhouse sounds, and how I’d sometimes wake up with that greasy pig-stink in my throat. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At five in the morning he chose the squad by lot, formed it in the courtyard, and woke up the condemned man with a premonitory phrase. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

After a while, Augustus turned his head to us, the waking up slow. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“So you finally woke up, boy,” his mother’s voice said near him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if you dare hit a Latin woman God help you, because you’ll wake up with scissors in your back. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“He unflinchingly snapped her spine! Everyone heard it. I’m sure it woke up the scythes sleeping in the back row!” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Toby could only hope that, when Jimmy woke up in the morning, the booze would cast a dark shadow over this part of the night. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She wakes up pretty soon after that, and we pack our stuff in silence. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Malloy greets me the same way every Sunday: with the biggest smile that wakes up something deep inside me. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Glass bottles clinked and metal bowls clanged, so loud that I was sure it would wake up Mama and Jay way over in the house. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I wake up and it is still there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon as the first radio goes on in the morning, Salty, the pit bull Akbar keeps in his shop, wakes up and starts howling. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“She didn’t wake up either?” he asked quietly. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the end he don’t wake up, or anyhow he don’t come out to the shed to see what’s making all the noise falling down and squeaking the doors. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But later, in the middle of the night, he had woken up suddenly and remembered it, and then he had realized that it was really true, it was going to happen. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I woke up late, with teeth clenched and every nerve on edge. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Downstairs they told him to go get his mother, and he told them that he wasn’t going to leave—he had to wait there until his brother woke up. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn could smell the French toast as soon as he woke up. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She did not want to wake up from that dream, and when she did she turned her face into the pillow, yearning to spend one more moment in that summer afternoon. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Can I wait for her to wake up? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their amazement at me, my language, my rules, and ways, once subsided, I found some of these heavy-looking, gaping rustics wake up into sharp-witted girls enough. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

After a while, Granddaddy said, “He never woke up.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Surely I will wake up and it will all go away. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I woke up in the home of a relative near the capital of Burundi. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

On the third night of our journey, I woke up with a start when I felt two hands on my throat, trying to strangle me. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toby woke up most mornings feeling like a stuck pig. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But if—when— Djo wakes up, I want to be here. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wakes up in the morning and sees with perfect clarity a string of small, well-lit scenes. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she wakes up, the old lady says, “Oh, that’s a nice suit, Jimmy” She even touches it to feel the fabric. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Silence fell again, and Moss watched his city wake up. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Let me try. At least it’ll be something to do while we wait for the others to wake up.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t been this scared since he was just a kid and woke up in the middle of the night calling for his mother. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must say, waking up two days in a row and having the prospect of a visit to the circus ahead of me has been nice. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But when I was younger, I used to wake up at night in April dreaming of Halloween. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

And when I wake up, I can feel the cold coming into my bedroom. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I said, real sleepy like I just woke up and wanted to go back to sleep. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Burning the dead. Always some who go to sleep and don’t wake up. You find them in their tents, them as have tents, curled up and froze. Toregg knows what to do.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I woke up at quarter to three and saw that Mr. Dussel was already up. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Once, Lynn woke up in the middle of the night, the way she often did. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, okay. But the weather is ugly, and I woke up with a migraine. Plus, Penny is sick, and Butterscotch threw up on the carpet. I had to put her in the basement.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Jus has been listening to his music a lot since he woke up without a best friend. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A few days later, on October 19, she woke up vomiting. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The woman’s brown hair was cut in a short bob and looked mussed, as though she had just woken up, even though it was late afternoon. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

With Bit leading the way, the Low Cuts beelined up her obstacle course of a driveway and rang the doorbell, which chimed a melodic yawn, like an old man just waking up. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

It’s better to take it, spend some time crying, then wake up the next day and move on. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They will follow me wherever I wake up. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

And maybe she could even ambulate his clothing and his boots and send him home, where he could wake up in the loving embrace of his family. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Things clutch at my legs and drag me away from the bakery down into the shadows of the alleyway, and just as they begin to ooze all over me I wake up. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

If you put her down in the crib, she might wake up changed and fly away. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plain as day, he didn’t want me to wake up, so I didn’t—not for him to know it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The day before that, I woke up in my own bed and watched an old woman die. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up with a start, not sure what it was that had awakened me. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

What will the Doctorita say if she wakes up and sees this? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom makes it sound like I can wake up and decide to go to school without them, like not wearing socks one day. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Then it’s like I woke up and baked bread, I said, and we were joking even then. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When she woke up the sun was shining in the window and she had a barbarous stitch in the shape of an arc that began at her crotch and ended at her sternum. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When she woke up, her husband had shot a girl young enough to be that daughter whose hair she had dressed to kill. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I wake up, my alarm clock tells me it's 11:37 p.m., so from the time I lay down on my bed to now is almost four hours. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This place felt similar, as if the earth were trying to wake up and consume jeverything—as if the mountains on either side wanted to crush them and the entire glacier to pieces. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I wake up early, jet-lagged, and watch the sun rise over Dhaka from my bed. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Early in the morning, they woke up to the sound of a series of intense blasts that shook the building. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I woke up the next day tired and restless. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When he woke up at 10:00 p.m. he was slow getting ready and he remained in camp long after the last of his clients, guides, and Sherpas departed for the summit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But I also woke up here a lot of nights, screaming for my mom not to leave me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I wake up, but make sure to stay in bed until I hear my parents’ car back out of the driveway. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He keeps waking up in DC, and Henry keeps waking up in London, and the whole world keeps waking up to talk about the two of them in love with other people. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

About an hour into the bus ride, Rondell woke up and looked over his seat at me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When I woke up, I was in a hospital room and it was dark out. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I had been restless, waking up often, and when I glanced at my clock I saw the hands had scarcely moved. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

From here, through the glass, I can pretend that he is just asleep, and that if I touched him, he would wake up and smile and make a joke. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I thought Ocean would wake up, dizzy and destabilized by this emotional train wreck to discover that it hadn’t been worth it, actually; that I hadn’t been worth it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t been sitting there more than a few minutes when Lily woke up and rubbed her eyes. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then he woke up a little and realized someone was shooting at him with a machine gun. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When he woke up in the hospital again, the smell of ether was gone and Dunbar was lying in pajamas in the bed across the aisle maintaining that he was not Dunbar but afortiori. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I felt kind of strange when I woke up in my old bed in Dad’s room and smelled the familiar breakfast aromas coming up from the kitchen. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

What I remember on waking up was that it was early Saturday morning, and I was lying under the table. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On some days, she woke up scarred with blame for Aunty Uju. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He woke up with a smile on his face. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

When I wake up on Saturday, I remember it’s time for the dreaded birthday party for Deb. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Riders and grooms would sometimes stand around for hours, waiting for the horse to wake up before they could get to work. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s only just waking up and accepts the mug without comment. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up the next morning to see Ma sitting on the steps. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My fingers trace the circle around the little gold mockingjay and I think of the woods, and of my father, and of my mother and Prim waking up, having to get on with things. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When he woke up again they were gone, and the wind had calmed down; but the air was heavy and damp. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he starts twitching his arms and legs but still won’t wake up. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. da Silva had felt this, waking up in his sleeping bag. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I found out when I woke up in a cold house. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m feeling better now. I just woke up.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When I woke up, I saw I had wet my pants. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

My body’s so used to waking up at five, it doesn’t care if it’s Saturday morning or not. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

When I woke up, the rain had disappeared. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

This was quite a speech to wake up to, and Edward lay on his back trying to absorb it. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Ethel said she didn’t wake up that morning to get into a theological argument. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He woke up in his aunt's bed, blinking against the white glare of the morning sun. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered how much time they had before the camp woke up. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you sometimes wake up feeling like you had a dream about something but the details are gone?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I dreaded what she would do when she woke up to find her arm torn open and turning gray. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Si\\r\\cla>|, December 25 He woke up with a fever. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She had woken up at night to escape from a familiar, recurrent dream in which policemen approached her with snicking scissors, wanting to hack off her hair. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am trying to wake up, to go to school, but I can’t. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Reveling in the removal of his Trace, Harry sent Ron’s possessions flying around the room, causing Pigwidgeon to wake up and flutter excitedly around his cage. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Uncle Abdullah will beat you if you do not wake up. Please, Mama! Please, Mama!” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s about waking up surrounded by ten million fireflies, which is something I like to imagine. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He wanted to believe she’d wake up one day and realize how hard he and the twins had been living. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

"I was asleep for a long time. He said I had to fly or die, and I woke up, only I was broken and I couldn't fly after all." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

‘We’re not in decent places. Time’s running short, yes, running fast. No time to lose. We must go. Wake up, Master, wake up!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

That day he woke up smiling for the first time in months. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to ask him if he woke up as scared as me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

About this time, Gregor’s “No!” had actually left his mouth, and his yell woke up most of the party. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The second time Beto woke up, it was to the sound of Naomi’s voice. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up Charlie and made him listen, convinced I’d discovered a secret message left by spies, but he punched me and went back to sleep. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And then something else happens that agitates Helmuth, that makes him all the more determined to wake up the people of Germany. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You just woke up feeling ill?” she asked. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

CLAUDETTE: I woke up to the smell of coffee like any other day. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when he woke up, he seemed worried that he might have said something in his sleep—something that he shouldn’t have. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Somehow I always knew this would happen, that he would come for me, in the night, that I would wake up to find him there, filling the room, and that I'd feel empty. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

They rushed into the house with such glee it woke up the small girl. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The tiny tail gunner woke up while Yossarian was cutting with the scissors, saw him, and fainted again. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

If it hadn’t been for the roar of traffic behind us, I’m sure she would've woken up the whole neighborhood. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I woke up at dawn covered from head to toe in a living fur blanket. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He figured that if any rat things tried to get him, they’d have to get his feet first, and he’d wake up if that happened, and he’d be able to kick those rat things. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

This was such a shock that again I woke up, trembling with happiness. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up in love, and work my skin to darkness under the equatorial sun. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He only woke up because he heard music. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be waking up in Jesus’s face, trying to figure out what happened!” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Grace closed her eyes, praying that it was a dream, that she could go back in time and wake up in her bed a year ago and have everything go back to normal. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When I woke up the next day, my entire body screamed in agony. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I woke up and heard him going down again. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some mornings I wake up and I sing while I’m getting ready. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

If Georgie had been in the shed when I woke up, if I’d met him in the woods, if we’d made up, I might not have left the shelter of the woods. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

There was a flash of light and the room was full of voices: Everyone had woken up as Ron had let out a yell. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Once he wakes up, I’ll clue him in on what happened. Otherwise he’ll be curious about all those fresh bruises and fingernail marks.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

And one evening, in the middle of the night, Ba woke up alone in bed to a voice calling. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

We’re all too busy looking away and trying to believe it’s a collective nightmare we will eventually wake up from. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I woke up and got real nervous real fast. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at least, when I woke up, I knew why my father wasn’t home, and it wasn’t because he was dead too. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Or he'd wake up when it was still dark, sure that she was waiting for him outside. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

In the morning, Scruggs woke up with a terrible hangover, but on fire with an idea. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Dazed as he was with pain and weariness, Sam woke up, grasped quickly at his chance, and threw himself to the ground, dragging Frodo down with him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

On the day of my move to the Hopkins Park Plaza, I wake up savoring the thought of the perishables I’m going to stock my refrigerator with: mayonnaise, mustard, chicken breasts. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I woke up, Lucas was doing jumping jacks in the middle of my bedroom. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I stopped a few blocks from our house to wake up my sister and put the blanket and pillow in the trunk. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She never woke up until two in the afternoon, and then she’d take at least two hours to get dressed. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

But in the mornings I woke up feeling better. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There we woke up another family, and I finally went to sleep, tired and happy, just before dawn. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if he went to sleep, he would be home again when he woke up and he could do those three things. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Miss Pass All Examinations was just waking up. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. But for me, it’s better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand,” he says. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It would be a fine thing to hide in a lifeboat and wake up on the way to High Brazil. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

When you’re in the dream you may not know it, but as soon as you wake up, you know that your dream was a dream and whatever happened in it, good or bad, wasn’t real. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

We wake up before dawn to start working in the fields. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about Nathan waking up on the side of the road. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

By the time Dad woke up from the nap he was taking, Scoob had listened to the message sixteen times. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

At least when she was home in Soweto, I could picture her cooking in the kitchen or reading in the lounge, I could imagine her waking up in the house I knew so well. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he wake up, all frowzle-headed, and ask why those girls disturb him. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The numbness throbbed in his body, and he knew he’d be aching the next day when he woke up. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Even with the nectar and ambrosia they’d managed to force-feed him, Piper couldn’t be sure he would be okay when he woke up. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I heard Mama sobbing every time I woke up and saw Papa smoking one cigarette after another. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Doc woke up as Jay and Mama washed his wounds, then covered them with a healing oil we’d made. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I was too, a few minutes ago. I only just woke up.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

After all these years, I still woke up dreaming of fires, of screams, of helplessness. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I put on my clothes and took a taxi and I woke up two people, the madam, then Sammy. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just woke up from his nap and he blink at me and smile. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

One day I would wake up thinking, This is it. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The only good thing about waking up before dawn is you get to see the sunrise. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He could wake up tomorrow morning and the car might be gone. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Later I wake up and it’s almost evening. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He woke up late in the morning and devoted an hour or two to the care of his own Eerson. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The doctor says Uriah’s not going to wake up. Something about... no brain waves.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I was still waking up and it struck me now with force that I should have been looking out for my family. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They returned me to Calypso shortly after, I think. I woke up in Mr. Haverty’s backyard. I really wish they’d stop taking my pants.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He leaned against a felled tree beside Minerva, who woke up with his rustling. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

One morning, soon after sanctions went into effect, we woke up to the sound of sirens on the road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she woke up her demeanor had changed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

March 17—When I waked up this morning rite away I thot I was gone to be smart but Im not. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I wake up, I went over to Lizabeth’s house to fix breakfast. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Still, sometimes I would wake up at night and wonder why I was there, why I was doing this. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

All his friends, woken up by this cry, leapt to their feet and ran towards the fence of tree trunks, beating drums and shouting threats at the lion. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Then Laura woke up, and she was lying across the foot of Grandma’s bed. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bedroom was dark and she whispered quietly, as if she might wake up her sleeping stuffed animals, each one from another time in her life, when things were less confusing. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Mom sits next to me and runs her fingers across my back the way she used to when I was little and woke up from a nightmare. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Well, wake up! You are on the front page of the Community section!” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“One day, baby, you gonna wake up, and your voice will be as deep as your daddy’s!” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Monday morning my heart jumps to see the minivan in the driveway next door when I wake up. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up the next morning to the voices of my brothers and father whispering to each other about what went on in the night. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good, it’s empty,” Clyde said as they woke up the computer. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When Izzie wakes up and jumps out of bed, I close my eyes and pretend to be asleep. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I woke up screaming and was unceremoniously ejected from the library, cursing Dr. Golan and his stupid theories all the while. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But their voices get farther and farther away and it’s just me alone inside the fog and I can’t move or talk and then Mom’s voice turns into a horn and I wake up. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu woke up one night to go to the bathroom, and heard Blaine in the living room, talking on the phone, his tone gentle and solacing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Will I ever be the Jason D I was when I woke up Friday morning? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I hear my mom in the other room, waking up my sisters. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Me and Shug cook, talk, dean the house, talk, fix up the tree, talk, wake up in the morning, talk. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days after buying the volume of Shakespeare, Sissy woke up one morning and nudged her current lover, with whom she was spending the night in a quiet family hotel. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lights stay on and the nurses stay awake, but even though it’s still dark outside, you can tell that things are waking up. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He kept me asleep almost the entire time I was with him and when I did wake up, I kept seeing confusing things in his Noise, things that didn’t make sense.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“The Taliban came in and made gradual changes. When people finally woke up to what was happening and tried to stop them, the Taliban silenced them with threats and fear. Fear is the biggest factor.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She looked at me the same way she had the morning she woke up on Half-Blood Hill, dazed and uncertain. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Fiver! Fiver, wake up, you silly fellow! It’s Hazel. You’ll hurt me in a moment. Wake up!” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to be there when Erin wakes up.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I wake up on Monday morning, I feel almost too heavy to get out of bed. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“He might have a concussion. We won’t know for sure until he wakes up.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

At sundown he woke up and caught sight of the headlights on the traffic across the bridge. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wakes up, and I think I’m just as relieved as Alyssa is. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The next thing I knew, I woke up in pitch darkness; the candle had burned out, and Faro was growling. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

At least when he wakes up from his nightmares, the rocks are right there for me to hand to him all over again. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Dell would wake up hours later and if he had the energy, make his way through the maze of his possessions to his bedroom, where he would crawl into a sleeping bag. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She woke up torpid each morning, slowed by sadness, frightened by the endless stretch of day that lay ahead. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then at 11:04 I wake up really having to use the bathroom. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

If I’d wake up feeling aimless or uncertain about where my life was headed I’d train harder to be certain I was at least the best fencer that day. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I woke up with the sunlight just before seven on Saturday morning. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Last night she’d slipped the bracelet over her bedpost before she went to sleep, the way she did every evening, but when she’d woken up this morning it had vanished. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was hot that day, in a season so dry our tongues went to sleep tasting dust and woke up numb. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyelids fluttered, but she wasn’t ready to wake up yet. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe later on, when she had just waked up some morning, more of the music would come back to her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Every Monday I wake up in a different bed than the one I slept in the week before. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is lift up the covers and stare down at my legs. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I knew soon as we woke up the next morning things would be getting worse. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I must have fallen asleep, because when I woke up, my father was carrying me into the house. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother died when I was seven, and at her funeral I threw a tantrum because she wasn’t waking up. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She put the note into his half-opened hand, so that he would see it as soon as he woke up. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When Cora woke up that first Saturday morning, she put off looking through the spy hole. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I woke up one morning and realized, if I didn’t, I’d be dead in a year.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

On the morning of that tragic Sunday, Nana woke up early as she always did. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I wake up in the morning, my jaws are clenched so tight I have a headache. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You know about the Maze? Who told you? You just woke up.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

No matter what time it was, he must wake up that good-for- nothing doctor and get his hand treated. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He woke up on the floor with a bleeding nose and exactly the same distressful head symptoms he had been feigning all along. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Nathan gasped for air as he woke up in the long passage. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“When you woke up, you didn’t seem to remember it. We didn’t want you to come upon something unexpectedly and have a setback.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The nights he spends there, he learns to wake up earlier than he is used to, to the sound of Silas barking downstairs, wanting to be taken for his morning walk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In my terror I let go of the body and it fell back into the tub with a hideous slap and a spray of water and I woke up. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The following morning, Roosevelt woke up with a fever. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“My poor little feet didn’t make much noise then! I daresay poor old Mr. Swales would have told me that it was because I didn’t want to wake up Geordie.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I try not to move, not to cry, so I don’t wake up my brother. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“I just woke up feeling like I don’t want to get married. All this pain, all this pain in my arm makes it seem so impossible somehow.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The next morning I woke up early, excited. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I woke up, nobody knew where he had gone. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Layla was almost as exhausted as their parents, helping out in the middle of the night when the twins woke up for feedings. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I wake up not remembering how long I was gone or what happened while I was out, part of my life erased. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

And Mark wanted to wake up, wanted to leave it behind again instead of reliving the aftermath of what he’d witnessed and the craziness that followed. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Tai heads for the bed Dorothy wakes up in when she finally makes it home, and grabs one end and starts talking. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He cries with relief when he wakes up from an afternoon nap to hear his children’s voices in the yard and realizes that I am alive. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The second I woke up, I knew I could figure out the bridge in “Q.U.E.E.N.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“And then you wake up and ten years have...” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I just woke up and wandered into the living room, and it’s sitting there, nice and neat and ready to go. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

And I honestly wondered if, when I woke up the next morning, I would still feel the pain of the broken leg, even though I was in a new body. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

For a long while, I just stood in the hall and listened to her crying and thought, what if Pretty Boy hadn’t woken up? The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I never wake up from this dream, I will be happy. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

If I dropped a sign or added two numbers wrong, I might never wake up. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d just woken up, the first traces of dawn leaking through the cracks of the stacked logs that made up the wall of his small hut. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I would wake up long before dawn and leave with my shotgun on my shoulder, with my game bag and my partridge hound. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Lucas crawled onto the floor and fell asleep, I simply let my body fall over onto the now-empty couch and followed his lead, until I was woken up for my turn with the police. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He was surprised when he heard Zero whispering for him to wake up. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Good, it’s empty,” Clyde said as they woke up the computer. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Many girls woke up early and spent hours applying hot combs to their hair, trying to straighten it to look, as some said, “almost white.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

"I pray to the God of Life every day that Charlotte wakes up before I die so she can take her rightful place as queen. To be at my side when I announce my illness." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

If he needed help in the cockpit, he would wake up the second crew. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I wake up many hours later to the sound of people whispering nearby. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She suddenly woke up and looked at him in a most knowing way. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Late Sunday night, I wake up because I hear my mom’s anxious voice talking on the phone. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The other prisoners had not yet woken up. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I wake up because the covers are on the floor or because I’m standing at the kitchen door, trying to get out. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined August twenty-sixth, when I would wake up to see a made bed and think of Lily in Atlanta already awake and in the dorm room unpacking her suitcase, deciding where to put stuff. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Ma wakes up with a gasp, then straightens the blue silk sari Baba bought for her in Singapore. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wake up to the sound of rocks at my window. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Keep telling yourself that,” says the dice-eyed skull, “but when you wake up with a few less toes, you’ll know it’s been tasting you.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But I wake up with this bout of uncertainty. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I woke up before it started what I was afraid it was going to do to me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Fyrian wouldn’t mind waking up with her bed put away, and it felt better to start the day with the beds tied up. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promise of waking up at all. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to wake up in a room in Erudite headquarters, so I don’t open my eyes right away, not even when the simulation fades. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was dreaming something bizarre and twisted, but I couldn’t wake up. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

A pack of stray, skinny dogs followed us, barking at the wheels and waking up the few neighbors who did not work on Sundays. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I wake up this morning to a thin blanket of white covering our front lawn. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I woke up my old man to ask him. He was so far out of it, he would’ve signed anything,” she said. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she wakes up and finds him dead in the bed beside her there will be no end to the lamentations and she’ll blame me on top of it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

So on Maribel’s first day of school in the United States, Arturo and I woke up early, filled with impossible expectation, and roused Maribel, watching her push her hair off her face. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

What did you think when you woke up and looked in the mirror this morning? The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she would wake up in the night and shiver over what they had said. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Oh, and wake up Juliet. I want my things moved into the main bedroom. That attic is far too dusty.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

When Granny woke up the next morning, Mama flown the coop. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Rufe, I have to get out of here before your father wakes up. Will you show me the way downstairs so that I don’t awaken anyone?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When Hazel woke up on Monday morning, dread slammed into her like a oncoming truck. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Well, I don't know if you can really call it waking up, since I never actually got to sleep. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I fall asleep with his image before my eyes, dream about him and wake up with him still looking at me. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The steady rhythm of the clock lulled Hugo to sleep, but he dreamed of fire and woke up with a start. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, it’s a start. Take a rest and give it another try tomorrow when you wake up. Promise?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so. He’ll just wake up later thinking he dreamed all of you.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Then she woke up the next morning and felt better, and had to admit that she did believe it, maybe just a little. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I shivered hard and I woke up with a shout. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Scorpions, perhaps; a jealous person had sent them to his uncle’s hut once, and his uncle woke up every day for weeks to find angry black scorpions crawling near his newborn twin sons. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I collapsed into bed with my clothes on and didn’t wake up until after 11 a.m. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did not wake up in the morning and ask ourselves, “What will Wayne Parr wear today?” or “How will Wayne Parr act today?” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I remember waking up one morning having more trouble breathing than usual, and then I couldn’t stop coughing. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It was a deep sleep, and I didn’t wake up until morning. o o o It is an upcar tearing along over the desert. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After waking up, I have a potato for breakfast. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I woke up this morning, I found myself thinking about what Ms. Singh said when I asked her for advice about writing. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He needed to remember it when he woke up scared in the middle of the night. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“I woke up early and had coffee with Darma,” she says, stretching. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

That night, I pretend to wake up from a bad dream. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I give up on the idea of sleeping and decide to rescue my painting before anyone else wakes up. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He thought about calling her himself, but she’d already yelled at him once when her ringtone had woken up his mum. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

When I wake up, I don’t feel much, but the inside of my head is fuzzy, like it’s packed with cotton balls. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

When I woke up it was four in the morning. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He left the apartment early, before Aunt Pearl woke up. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry had been gone since before I woke up. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Later, when I woke up thirsty and went to get water, I found Grandma snoring with the rifle lying across her lap. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dreamed that Master was calling him—Ugwu, my good man!—and when he woke up Master was standing at the door, watching him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t take me long to fall asleep, but then I wake up in the middle of the night. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I wake up on a partly deflated air mattress, too excited to go back to sleep. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She woke up with a start when someone shook her shoulder. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he believed that, but it sounded to me like a lie he fed himself so that he could wake up in the morning believing he could change. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I woke up the next morning with that fleeting sensation where you think something has all been a dream. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He wakes up with broom hair and catches Joon and me watching cartoons. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Gus was here earlier. He was here when I woke up. Took off school. He ...” His head turned to the side a little. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He woke up my mother, who lay sleeping beside him, and said, “My wife, today I’m turning to God. I’ve seen the signs, and now it’s time to change.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I wake up and find the face that belongs to it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I wake up a few hours later and have no idea where I am. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Here is how it started: I woke up one morning with a minor headache. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Above the mist in the distance over the water, the sun was beginning to streak and shine, sending golden snakes writhing out into the rich expanse of the sky and waking up the day. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

His words were harsh, but his eyes were easy, like he’d woken up from a nothing- special dream to a nothing-special life. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I always woke up, alone in the dark by the forest pool. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was as if my mind was numb, as if I’d had a good dream that I would wake up from. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up, and I’m not on Ollie's sofa, which is the last place I remember sitting. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Barack had woken up that morning with a nasty head cold, but it had miraculously cleared as soon as he arrived at the church. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Every day, he woke up wondering if the stick would somehow catch fire and burn, and he would cease to exist. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I was with her and Theresa when Jeanne had another one of her fits—falling down, shaking, eyes rolling back in her head—and when she woke up, she said there was a giant coming. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, Grandma Caye would wake up in the middle of the night and ask my mom, “Am I dead?” and my mom would say, “Not if you’re talking to me!” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You never really told me what happened to Alby that day— why he was in such bad shape. Obviously the Griever woke up, but what happened?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Every day I woke up without the scent of my mother's breakfast wafting through the air. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“When I woke up I heard—” He did not want to tell me what he had heard. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I walk up to the front parlor, open the French doors slowly so they won't squeak and wake up Dad. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning or night—I couldn’t tell which it was—I woke up to find the man next to me leaning heavily on my shoulder. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, he’d never really considered the possibility that the girl might wake up and be okay. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When I wake up the next morning, I find Mrs. Kelly’s number in my mom’s phone book. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve woken up in a hospital with an IV coming out of my arm, but this is the scariest thing that’s ever happened to me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

"I'm going over with you. I'll be there the whole time, so everything will happen right, the way I promised. I'll be there when you wake up, and I'll bring you back again." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, I lost contact with most of the people I knew in college, including my beer-drinking friends and the first woman I ever woke up with in the morning. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The best thing about getting it ready was that Mr. Loomis slept through the preparations, and then woke up just at the right time. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

First thing when I wake up, I poke around online to catch the news. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I keep telling her I’m fine, but my stomach feels gurgly, and I woke up, like, a billion times last night. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

It took at least three months before they quit hating to wake up in the morning for school. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

James dropped into a chair and shook the mouse to wake up the computer. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

So February sneaks in a couple of beautiful days early on, and just when you’re stretching out like a cat waking up, bang! Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Sam woke up thinking that he heard his master calling. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The nurse promised, and sure enough when I woke up, the blanket was covering me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Things slithering through the grass could wake up the dead. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If not, she has terrible nightmares and screams, “Help, help!” and wakes up Zeide. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

When I wake up again, I’m on the floor with the two cards next to my left hand. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“But they ’bout to get a big surprise; justice sleeps but not for long and one day when it wake up, all sins is atoned for.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

When I woke up, I followed the same routine as the day before. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

On our break, I go stand outside on the iron bridge, slapping my own face to wake up. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But any time I woke up in the middle of the night, Ollie was still swimming, his little mouth opening and closing like was he trying to say something. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Even when he wakes up, I may not have the nerve to read it to him. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up to what I was doing. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up when Mrs. van D. laid her head on my feet. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But if you’re like me on this particular Saturday morning, you also want to wake up so you can see your mom and brother when they get home. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why, you could go through twenty words without bumping into some of the shyer consonants, but it seemed as if you couldn’t tiptoe past a syllable without waking up a vowel. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Well!" said the Wart, as he woke up in his own bed next morning. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The only time I was ever in a hospital was with you kids. With Stephen they gave me ether. I went out like a light, and when I woke up, there he was.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tally realized that she had slept through the breakfast call, too exhausted to wake up with everyone else. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When I woke up hours later, the same nurse was there. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the night, I woke up hungry. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d wake up in about ten minutes with a bad headache and possibly a minor concussion. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Moss had hated how warm he ran, how easy it was for him to wake up in the night, covered in sweat, and it was like Javier was meant for him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mark woke up with a deep ache in his side. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The way I looked at her sometimes, when I woke up in the morning, frightened her. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She shook her head a solemn no, “I know I swore on the Bible not to follow you, but I woke up this morning and you was gone.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I heard people waking up and moving around inside but I was feeling too tired to go and speak to anyone. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I woke up. But it hurts less when I sleep.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I hated talking with that thing on, but I said, “Just go to the park and I’ll call you when I wake up.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I woke up in a panic, drenched in sweat. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The next morning I wake up to an obnoxious digitized symphony—the alarm on my phone, which, miraculously, held its charge overnight. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never had an exciting mystery to solve. Well, except for the time I woke up one morning with every inch of my hair, body, and bed covered in chocolate.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“But a chef could make you a sandwich at literally any time of the day. Like you could wake up at three in the morning and ask it for a snack.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Once in the middle of the night Laura woke up and heard the pig squealing. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up with August shaking my shoulder, saying it was gonna be a scorcher, get up, we had to water the bees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra’s face was pressed into the fur of her kitten dæmon, but not for long, because as soon as Asta flew down to the crib, Pantalaimon woke up and spat fiercely. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I wake up early, cut myself a big piece of Richards birthday cake for breakfast, and start writing the letter. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

One of the drunk Russian guys woke up and sat listening intently too. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I go to the computer as soon as I wake up the next morning. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Lyra, feeling raindrops on her face, woke up and protested, but Alice ignored her, pulling the coal silk over the hoops and fastening it as Malcolm instructed her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Matt splashed water on his face in an effort to wake up. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Soon as she woke up, the whole place fell to pieces. She even admitted she triggered something.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I woke up one morning and, thinking they was already in the fields, I went to finish my sleeping in Ma and Pap’s bed. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“I really hope he wakes up today, just in time, you know.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Seeing Mark that way made Joaquin feel as bad as when he had woken up and seen the balloon. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Every morning when I wake up, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francis had given my clothes to Mrs. Hatch to be laundered; putting on a bathrobe he’d lent me, I went downstairs to sit on the porch for a few minutes before the others woke up. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The next time he woke up, Lily was singing softly to herself in the kitchen. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

My mind was stimulated, my spirit was full, and I seriously woke up every single day excited to learn something new. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I wake up in the Semper Fi bunk bed this morning to the realization that I'm going to need to pull my own weight. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I long to wake up, and then I do. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up on another planet or in an alternate reality. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“But sometimes? Sometimes, you remember every detail. Sometimes they are so real that if you were laughing in your dream, you wake up laughing. And if you were crying, you wake up crying.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“That’s what killed most of the people. In a way it’s better. They just went to sleep and never woke up.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“When we woke up this morning, he was gone.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Rowan found he had patience to wait for his friend to wake up, but no patience for him now that he was conscious. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I know I’m in summer school, I wake up with that FML tightness in my chest every morning. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

They even woke up Tar Baby, who came out of his room to look at them and then left the house in search of music. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

What you hear when you wake up is humiliating. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I went back first thing the next morning to be with my mother in her room and wait for her to wake up. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I sleep harder than I imagine possible and wake up early. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Usually when he smelled the land breeze he woke up and dressed to go and wake the boy. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I woke up I saw that ugly cat sitting in my window, so I knew I was still alive.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I woke up next morning, my first thought was: I was in a thrift shop. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

When I woke up, the room was darker. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But I’ve also woken up in the body of an ice hockey player, a fencer, an equestrian, and once, recently, a gymnast. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Make him wake up!” he screamed at God. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

They don’t even wake up for the food or for more creaking to the toilet. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I woke up sweating, Zheegwon standing over me, his brother, Tree, slightly behind him. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

My fingers tingle as the arcana wake up inside me again. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I woke up again and again in the night, never sure of where I was, or when it was, or who was alive and who was dead. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She awakened me what I guessed to be a few minutes later, not with ghoulish wails as might be expected, but as a mother would wake up her beloved child. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Going down three times like this is just like waking up and finding yourself tied to a tree with someone saying, “Ready, aim, fire!” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark woke up and rolled onto his side, his eyes fully open, his breathing heavy. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And he woke up earlier to fetch water and scrubbed the room floor harder and waited to win back her friendship. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

At that sharp sound, the mans eyes snap as if he's waking up from a dream too. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

At night, she fell asleep on top of her books and woke up with the pages sticking to her cheeks. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I woke up in the cave, warm firelight flickering on walls. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My father says cold water is the best way to wake up someone who's fainted," he said, and with that he tipped the entire contents of the jug over the Trunchbull's head. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“If he wakes up and finds out we have water and didn’t offer him any ... I don’t know.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On rainy evenings, when a student woke up in the middle of the night, no one wanted to trudge through the grass and mud to the outhouse. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he wakes up the world, or Emmett or George or Aunt Nancy, he doesn’t care, because if they knew and didn’t tell him, they deserve to wake to anger. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

During the day sometimes, or when she had just waked up in the morning, a new part of the symphony would suddenly come to her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I just want to sleep and never wake up. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And anyway Estella never woke up at night, not now that the doctor had put her on sleeping pills to help her rest. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Almost immediately I heard Mrs. Crowell screaming—she was trying to wake up her family and get them out of the house in case another bomb exploded. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I would wake up in the night in Velma’s tiny little apartment thinking I was in that cell in Montgomery,” she remembers. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Finally, he dozed off, but every time Ivy tried to put him into his bassinet, he woke up and she had to start all over again. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the morning they all woke up almost at the same moment. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sickeningly sweet odor begins to invade my nostrils and I reach for the others, shouting for them to wake up. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning he would wake up groaning like the demon in a kabuki drama; he would vomit and then start sipping again. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I woke up after everyone else, when the sun s rays streamed steadily into the room, making the mirror glitter. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I got tangled up with a few of them once—just a stupid fight—and the next thing I knew, I woke up one morning busted out of my mind, bleeding out my side. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I woke up with the sunrise, like usual. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The train would go by, and we’d wake up and just start sniffing that popcorn like a rat smells cheese. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to believe I would have woken up. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He lay there, slowly waking up, letting the memory of the last day and night slowly wake up too. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she dreamed about the ones who’d given her away, and she woke up running from faceless brown-haired people, their arms reaching out for her, Maya sweating from the effort it took to escape. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He returned home each day around three p.m. and collapsed into bed for a few hours of sleep before waking up for another double shift. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“One morning we woke up when the sun was nearly a quarter way cross the sky. Bright as anything. And blue. Blue like the ribbons on my mother’s bonnet. See that streak of sky?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll wake up for real, and everything will be back to normal. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I must have gone headfirst into a tree and knocked myself out. I woke up in town this morning. “That’s the other reason I needed to come back,” she said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know how I’ve wanted to be with you. I keep imagining myself waking up at home some morning—alone.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

So, I woke up from this dream, this nightmare, just as my dad drove the car up to our house. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

My first morning back in the States, I woke up to a tweet storm. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The owl swooped in and dropped the newspaper on top of Hagrid, who didn’t wake up. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“I needed time to figure it out. It takes a while, you know? You don’t just wake up one day and know,” I say. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Most of us woke up late, at ten, I suspect because there was no reason not to. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I tried telling her I didn’t take it to bed on purpose, that I must’ve woken up in the middle of the night to get it. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Hey, wake up, man,” Jones said, blowing some smoke over the inert figure. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I woke up to Dad sitting at the kitchen table alone. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But come November Hangman wakes up again, sort of like John Barleycorn in reverse. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I wake up Saturday morning at seven a.m. to a clanging headache and a raw tongue. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I wake up each morning to find my polling numbers up. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a nightmare last night, and when I woke up I remembered something. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“And one day you’ll wake up, look around, and wonder how you could ever have believed otherwise. If the world doesn’t end, of course.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Lucky I woke up out of my seizure or the house would have caught on fire and I would have been dead. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it got really cold, the water froze anyway, and we’d wake up to find a big icicle hanging from the faucet. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

So I started telling her the story of my book, not reading it to her, just telling her about it, starting with the first scene, where Meg wakes up at night, afraid of a thunderstorm. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It probably would have been more satisfying if he woke up, but he just grunted and rolled over as I pulled myself up onto my bed. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Candice woke up on Saturday morning to the most wonderful smell: frying bacon. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I woke up feeling worse than when my head had hit the pillow the night before. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He still sleeps most of the time, and when he wakes up it is because of a dream, a nightmare. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Mike, Curtis, Kyle, time to wake up!” his mother called from down in the kitchen. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Now he was pulling down my overalls and I was trying to wake up. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My brother could wake up tomorrow, or he might never wake up. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Yes. He’s okay. He’s been waiting for you to wake up.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

You hear the news on the radios of people who got a reason to get up early and you hear mamas yelling for their kids who go to school to wake up. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then they would put the sled away, and slip back to their bench and the catechism before their father woke up. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her life ever after she would have nightmares of her time in that hold, and she would wake up screaming with the taste and stench of the place in her throat. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I woke up because my back was hurting more and more. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I fell asleep, and when I woke up, Lynn was slumping in her chair looking bored. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I stand about as much chance of having to keep that promise as you have of waking up tomorrow speaking Farsi.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little girl imagined her mother had gotten lost in the desert, and she woke up night after night, crying that she could hear her mother’s voice. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up early, feeling very cheerful, thinking that there was someone to talk to even if he was sick. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

When I met Lio, it was as if I woke up. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I finally do get some sleep, I wake up Tuesday morning with a new idea—make that a huge idea, an amazing idea. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to ask someone, “Suppose Zaydeh isn’t dead? Suppose he’s joking and wakes up to find out he’s buried?” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a nightmare last night and I woke up sweating and apologizing. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Every minute of my time during the Olympics was scheduled, from the moment I woke up in the morning until the blissful moment when I could lay my weary head down to rest at night. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

My plan is to wake up early—around six—and email Rhiannon with a full explanation. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I felt better when I got away from Miles, like the revelation I’d had in the chemistry classroom had been nothing but a dream, and I’d woken up from it. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The next morning Roberto and I woke up to the rattling sound of the alarm clock. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The next morning we woke up in a heap, tangled together every which way. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I thought it was a miracle that they didn’t start yelling and breaking things and wake up Mr. Farrow. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That was so unusual, she wasn’t sure if she’d actually woken up. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When Palmer opened the window, Nipper, as usual, hopped onto his head—and bent down and gave his ear an especially ouchy nip, as if to say, “Who said you could wake up without me?” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I mean, what if I sit at home all day and watch TV, and then tomorrow, I wake up and I'm my regular self again? Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody ever woke up in the morning and chose to be angry. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Then one morning he woke up with the first autumn snow alighting gently on the ground outside. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He woke up and thinks he’s a horse. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She decided to head to the stable and look for breakfast among their provisions instead of waiting for the others to wake up. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She had woken up so early—and slept so little after that encounter with Nehemia...Unable to stop, Celaena wandered into the Land of Sleep. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Nathan woke up in the middle of the night with some brand-new mosquito bites and an immediate need to go to the bathroom. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The ship was there when I woke up, sure enough; and when I went inside it there was the most lovely smell and feeling and food to eat and—well, whatever you can think of. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day of the dance—the day of Ivy’s thirteenth birthday—she woke up with a stomachache, but not a sick stomachache. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mole woke up, smelled Oksi, and pushed open the deerskin door. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But hopefully, their great-great-great-grandkids will be there when we wake up. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then I heard Toby waking up, because he is nocturnal, and I heard him rustling in his cage. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Molly leaned over Ernest as he was being wheeled into the operating room and whispered, “I’ll be here when you wake up.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Every morning, Ifemelu woke up and checked to make sure that Obama was still alive. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I fell asleep instantly and did not wake up until the sunlight reached my eyes this morning. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Rue, I only woke up today. How many nights did I miss?" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When I wake up again, I don't know how much time has passed. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The ghost had never spoken to me before, but that morning he said, Matt, it’s time to wake up. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She woke up to the whistling of rockets streaking overhead. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She dreamed about the Hoppers and then woke up, mad at herself for letting the Hoppers into her dreams and now into her waking thoughts. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Each time he sighed in his sleep, she ran in to see if he was waking up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so I ventured out into the overcast spring and woke up Lara and Takumi, then brought them back to Room 43. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Tendai was afraid they would have to wait until the Borrowdale people woke up when he saw a newspaper robot purring down the street. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Until her mom finally came in and told her to wake up. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

All around them, the forest was waking up after the few short hours of rest; soon they would have more than the mud to worry about. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The next time I wake up it’s a few hours later, and the clacking of the furnace almost drowns out the sound of Mango’s heavy wheezing. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything was in proper order. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I ate my chicken and watched the movie, wondering what it would mean if the whole world woke up having to tell the truth. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I woke up, my breath panting a little, and I knew it had been about him. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He snorted again, but he didn’t wake up. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be fifteen minutes before the sun went down and Bunnicula woke up. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

He passed out again, then woke up and said, “Don’t kill me.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I say it because every morning since he turned eleven or so he would wake up before anyone else in the house, go out onto the porch, and read a chapter of a book. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Pa had John at work before sunup, so they’d already eaten and gotten to work before I even woke up. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

So beautiful that even when I wake up again, I just lie there with my eyes shut tight, trying to remember every color. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“I thought that if you stopped the bleeding, he’d wake up.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

That night, Annabeth slept without nightmares, which just made her uneasy when she woke up—like the calm before a storm. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Guards tell him when to wake up, when to eat, and when to go to the bathroom. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“We woke up and didn’t know where you were!” she said breathlessly. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A handful said they woke up after six. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

When she woke up, it was in a room that she didn’t recognize. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I woke up startled, for the first time afraid of the father that I saw in my dreams. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It is nearly ten in the morning when he wakes up again, unobstructed sunlight brightening the room. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I forgot to buy breakfast stuff. Want to wake up early and eat at the diner before school?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Though he woke up night after night and remembered what he was planning to do, and his mind was blank with fear. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Levin, at one point, went into a seventh-grade music class with seventy kids in it and asked for a show of hands on when the students woke up. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Eye woke up, they helped him into the restaurant for tea. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

That just makes it worse when you wake up the next day and it’s back with a vengeance to show you who’s boss. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Next morning we woke up to find they’d rolled us and beat it,” said Hickock. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ton-Ton said they wouldn’t wake up no matter how much noise we made.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just wanted Mr. Terupt to wake up and fix this mess. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

When Angel woke up, she felt for the warm lump in the blanket called Tiger. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I also want to wake up next to her the next morning. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Dad, wake up. Wake up, Dad! NOW! You can’t go now. Please wake up. We need you. I love you. NO!” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I wake up ten times a night anyway.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

You wake up from them or reality makes them seem stupid. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

We would not wake up from this nightmare to find out it was someone’s real life, and for once that someone wasn’t just a poor unlucky nobody in a shack you could forget about. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a new story, and yet she slipped entirely away, not waking up one morning. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never had waked up since he brought her in the house. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, we woke up as if we were coming out of a long, fitful dream. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I mumbled sleepily, stirring but not waking up, thinking it a dream. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes in the morning, prisoners didn't wake up. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up in a bed with Malachy and the twins. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

What if he wakes up in an hour and reads the note? The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Wake up, your brain says, wake up and everything will be okay. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

With one final yank, I wonder if I’ll wake up as a balloon animal, pinched off in the spots the suit covers. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He forced open the door to the O’Learys’ house and called for them to wake up. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“If the Dursleys wake up, I’m dead,” said Harry as he tied the rope tightly around a bar and Fred revved up the car. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I drift in and out of sleep but I have to wake up for good when Mrs. Clohessy goes around pulling at her family to get them up. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I wake up, eat breakfast, help Mamá Jacinta cook and clean, and then lie around reading and writing. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

For the first time since waking up on the gurney, I realize I’m exhausted and slump my head against my chest. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Ash woke up that morning with her heart pounding, and she knew that something was wrong because the house was full of noise. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up to a dark, stormy day outside and Hideo’s message on my phone. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He woke up choking on humid jungle air, but when he pushed back the blanket he was in the cave, and it was his own sweat and heavy breathing that made the air seem damp. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I must have fallen asleep, because I woke up with the stars in my face. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when I wake up, I think I see my momma standing right there before me. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He woke up crying in a shallow hole beside the clay bank where his mother had thrown the old quilt. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I woke up today, my bed was still and silent. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Walk him in the hall,” the man suggested, “so he doesn't wake up the others.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I still feel like I’ll wake up tomorrow and find out it was all a dream.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

And when she woke up a second time, some moments later, it was dark and the engine was still throbbing reliably, and she was heaped uncomfortably among the tumbled cargo. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

About a month later, Aunt Mirian wakes up again in the middle of the night. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I drop to my knees and grab whatever it is, and it’s the arm that was supposed to be around me when I woke up. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I wake up after a fitful night to the sound of urgent whispering on the other side of the door. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was “go to bed with a backache and wake up with a backache.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I could see sunlight through the closed lid of my right eye, and I dreamed about waking up in the hospital yesterday afternoon and the nurse moving the curtain away. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“We were terribly tired and eventually fell asleep. When I woke up the next morning at about 5:00 A.M., and he hadn’t radioed, I realised we had lost him.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And when I woke up the sky above the ocean was completely clear and the sun was blood-red and falling behind the surface of the water. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Two Sundays later I woke up early, peeled potatoes, then packed my bag. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was all part of the same dream and he would finally wake up in his own bed and he could go and find his mom and tell her all about it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up and the bathroom light was on. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have woken up because the thoughts are so loud, and none of them mean me well. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I was tempted to go wake up Annabeth and tell her, middle of the night or not. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

"I'll wake up when I hit the ground," Bran told the bird. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I don’t mean to fall asleep, but after a while, I do, and I wake up to Christina shaking my shoulder. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Linda stirred, woke up, stared for a few seconds bewilderedly at the Semi-finalists, then, lifting her face, sniffed once or twice at the newly perfumed air and suddenly smiled—a smile of childish ecstasy. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toby drove slowly, like he was trying to keep a baby from waking up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The room presses in hot and heavy the way it does when you wake up from a nap in the afternoon sun. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be right back. Now don’t do anything. Just rock him, Omakayas, and play with him if he wakes up. Don’t do anything!” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I could go to sleep and wake up as I pleased, swim whenever I wanted, eat when I was hungry — all were delicious sensations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think she’ll wake up for a while yet. Fancy meeting you here, rat.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I fell asleep at some point, and, when I woke up, daylight had dimmed a bit, the shadows had stretched, and Sohrab was still sitting next to me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

If this was a dybbuk, it was waking up. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There were days when she woke up from her naps feeling clearheaded, like today. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Despite catching two big piranhas that were divvied up with the previous night’s dinner, along with two spoonfuls of wild honey and a handful of the ever-elusive Brazil nuts, the men woke up hungry. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

When a casting agent went to sleep in Tokyo, a modeling scout was waking up in London. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A few mornings later, Mom woke up, made breakfast for us, and got Nikki and me off to school. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

For the first time since waking up in Arizona with his memories erased, Jason felt whole. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In San Antonio, rainstorms were rare, and if one hit at night, you woke up with water dripping on your face. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, the big boys had to wake up the little ones and march them outside to urinate. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Everything else—the paper, the metal letters, and the mess the police made—would have to wait until we woke up. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I woke up I looked instinctively for Aaron and Nia; they had disappeared. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I only remember that I woke up smiling. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Or did they decide when I would wake up? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

And I’d wake up screaming at the top of my lungs. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even though they’re just in my head...just something from a movie...they glitter in my mind, and I’m suddenly desperate to click my heels together and wake up in my own bed. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Get some sleep now and remember: you’re drinking more orange juice when you wake up.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Just before I woke up, I had a terrible dream. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

"One day she wasn't feeling well, and she went to bed, and never woke up." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He cried because he had to wake up to what was left: the dim room, empty beds, and a March dust storm rattling the tin on the roof. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And when he woke up, he drank glass after glass to get rid of the dry, dead feel of the poppy fields. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I actually imagined my mother, as frugal as she was, waking up from a coma and saying, “You spent how much.? You idiot. You should have saved that money to look after your brothers.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I was really hoping I’d wake up to a functional lander, but no such luck. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra’s possessions, such as they were, had been packed ever since she’d woken up and seen the land. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

My father woke up and began arguing sharply with my mother in the bedroom. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can feed her soupy stuff if she doesn’t wake up soon.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The following morning I woke up to Fig’s head hanging over my face at the usual early hour. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Bandages ain’t free, and I had a woman by to sit with her, waiting for her to wake up.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was just then that Mr. Jones woke up. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

When I woke up this morning, I got scared. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For once I’d like to sleep in and wake up at noon. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But as I wake up, I realize the glint has no light left in it. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

When Malcolm woke up to it, though, it had already become like a separate river inside the larger one. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I wake up realizing I can work but probably shouldn’t, if only because I look like a leper. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city was waking up, but the boys hardly took any notice. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He gives it to a man in black who puts the offering in with the corpse, gently, so she doesn’t wake up. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

They would wake up One morning to find their panties gone. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The dim light hadn’t changed a bit since they’d woken up that morning, and Thomas wondered if anything would change at “sunset” either. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

My father woke up the next morning with a horrible rash on his hands and arms, presumably wounded by the plant that bites. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up with a start, lit the lamp, and sat listening to the strange excited beating in my heart. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She woke up every day worrying about frightening things that could happen to her other relatives. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The next morning, she woke up too early, smelling her own bad breath and feeling a sad and unsettling peace. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some buses are honking already, and a few cyclists are tinkling their bells, but the city isn't all woken up yet. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He went under anesthesia for what he thought was a routine procedure and woke up permanently paralyzed from the waist down. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When I wake up, two faces hover over me like night and day. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Sunday morning, I wake up late in the Doctorita’s bed, to watery gray light and more rain pattering on the windows. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Man, I was gone. My bad," he said, his raspy voice even raspier, like he had just woke up. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

R.C. woke up when I opened my door. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“They say England is gray, but everything about America is too bright. Sometimes I wake up wondering how I’ll get through another day of Type-A personalities and firm handshakes.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Jule was in the shower before her roommates woke up and started using the hot water. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ben knew when he woke up on this morning that no one in Ravenel, South Carolina, had been spawned on such a training ground. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jam woke up with a start, her phone vibrating in the front pocket of her pajama pants. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I wake up before him, and the blanket is cocooned over us like a tent. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And he’d wake up and he was a day closer to losing the only thing he had left. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Though I’d been falling asleep to pounding thunderstorms for three nights straight, when I woke up on the fourth day, the sky was clear. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And with that he realized he was not going to wake up at 5:00 a.m.—not this morning. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if to rescue me, Geak wakes up and her cries of hunger interrupt the incident. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll see them when I wake up,” Ben yawned, putting the pillow over his head. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up every morning and knelt on the floor, praying to God to heal her. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

When I opened the stable door I already had four chunking stones in my hand just in case the bear-fighting dog had woke up. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She wakes up every morning and puts on clothes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

If I was dreaming, I no longer wanted to wake up. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Dreamed last night I was up in Alaska with Dad—woke up in a puddle of cold urine!!! In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up a little then and really looked at him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It looks so pretty that I want to put the cap on the bottle and leave it in the cup holder so Lacey and Ben can see it when they wake up. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I woke up feeling like I was still on fire. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They woke up the world with their shouts of surprise and excitement. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

She woke up a little, putting her arms in the huge sleeves while I cinched the belt tight. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I woke up in what looked like an alien spacecraft. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The next morning she woke up hoping he’d frozen to death, but instead he was sitting on their front stoop, bruised and cold. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Sirens can be heard in the distance, probably waking up as many people as the party has. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Every time Jason woke up from that nightmare, his face was beaded with sweat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Sonny woke up more than $125,000 in debt because he didn’t have health insurance to cover the surgery. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

December I He had no idea what time it was when he woke up, but he knew he was cold. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“We woke up one day,” said Whitman, “and found out that 20 percent of the people on eBay were saying, 'I accept PayPal, please pay me that way.’ The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

‘I had one once and I woke up sweating all over.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I wake up, it will all be over. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I wake up, and for a few seconds I don’t know where I am. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“My parents woke up to the Death-Cast alert on May tenth.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then you wake up, you just need socks, and you can go to school. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I reach over to wake up Mateo, but my hand finds no one in all this darkness, just my phone, which I pocket. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She wakes up and has trouble getting back to sleep. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

"I thought you'd gone off to sleep in there and needed waking up." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Carlos had woken up and called Alex a baby, and Papi had told Carlos to shut up, that Carlos had done that and worse in his day. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Only then did the grocery woman wake up. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I wake up on top of a mattress resting on the floor of the garage across the alley from Mai's mom's nail salon. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

And then Finn was waking up, lifting his head from where it bobbed against Chess’s shoulder. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The next time I woke up, the girl was gone. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I do not think so. That, I should hear. The light from the corridor—one wakes up automatically thinking it is the Customs examination at some frontier.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started waking up before the alarm that week, fresher in the morning, stronger. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have to wake up now, my love.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I hope Teach wakes up so he can see that I’ve listened,” I added. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

She wakes up weak, half her size, but alive. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"You better wake up to the reality of what that means in this country." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He sleeps in fits and starts, wakes up sweating, wakes up shivering. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

‘That’s about it,' said Sam. ‘And we’d better be a bit more watchful ourselves, or we’ll feel some nasty fingers round our necks one of these nights, if we ever wake up to feel anything. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The hour or so after I woke up was my least favorite part of each day, because I spent it in the real world. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He just wanted to sleep and never wake up again. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I realize, sitting here in my car, watching my neighborhood wake up, that I can’t let my regret stop me anymore. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Poppy woke up and made fretful noises, and Lina gave her the last of the peas in Doon’s pack. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We girls took turns waking up really early in the morning, before the sun had risen, to get in the long line at the well. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go to sleep early but I wake up every hour. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom wakes up the porters and the vet and gets them ready for the release. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why I dream about stuff like that, but I do, and I wake up feeling real awful. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic, or a red one?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Will my parents be with me when I wake up?” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I woke up to find toasted bread, brewed tea, and a boiled egg already on the kitchen table. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Often he wakes up to find himself tied by his ears to a bedpost, or else he finds loops of string around them, to which are attached dead bugs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s still sound asleep, completely unaware that his son won’t be around to welcome him home if he ever wakes up. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He wakes me up in the middle of the night so much, I practically wake up on my own now. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I should make sure they have clean cups ready for when he wakes up.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I still remember waking up that one morning a week before Thanksgiving to find him gone. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

One of the twins woke up and without interval began to wail. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Winston woke up the hands of the clock had crept round to nearly nine. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The girl seemed to be sleeping peacefully, like she’d wake up at any minute. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“But if 1 waked up Pauline she’ll hit me,” Maria said, starting to cry. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘If any one of them is waking up, he will gobble you down before you can say knack jife,’ the BFG answered, grinning hugely. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do not know. I do not remember being built. My very first memory is waking up on the northern shore of this island.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Man, I don’t want to wake up one day and realize all of this has become normal. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then the fresh soft strains of jazz blues, like waking up from a long sleep. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jaime David was sick and kept waking up, feverish, needing drinks of water. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was rumpled like he’d just woken up, even though it was midafternoon. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

"C'mon and wake up. The police got him. We have to go down to the station." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Billy woke up at dawn on that day in January. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twice in the night she had these bad dreams and woke up on the floor. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I wake up the next morning with a broken ankle. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“What if the humans...we, that is...What if we had woken up?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she woke up flailing and helpless, and she saw, in front of her and behind her and all around her, an utter hopelessness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Me and Rondell wake up on the beach and the first thing I think about is food. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“But I fell asleep and when I woke up, he was gone.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I found myself waking up during the night and running downstairs to smell the night air. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jessie had been chased by dark dreams all night and she woke up tired. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I’d have to wake up real early if I wanted to get to the mission in time for breakfast, if you were one minute late they wouldn’t let you in for food. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

When Hazel woke up the next morning, she found the scratchy feeling had not gone away. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“It’ll never be settled until this country wakes up and builds a navy!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turner wondered what might happen if it woke up and decided to sting his father at some prominent moment—say, when the trumpets of Jericho sounded. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I pretend to cough, and jostle my elbow so she wakes up. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

October 14—I wake up in the morning and don’t know where I am or what I’m doing here, and then I see her beside me and I remember. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Someday, she thought, somebody's going to wake up to this every morning. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

One day I woke up to find a different kind of visitor. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Or maybe that’s what I told myself when I woke up. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I was afraid he would fall, so I stopped, and when I did he woke up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was then that Clara began having nightmares, walking in her sleep, and waking up screaming. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up the next morning as Alexander Lin. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

We go to bed ourselves and like poor Dr. Jekyll we wake up changed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Grandmère woke up that afternoon, I read her the note. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The only problem was Rondell woke up while my hand was still deep in his bag. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She’d have muffin batter sitting in the fridge, and would pour it into tins and let you eat as many warm muffins as you wanted, before the rest of the island woke up. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

James woke up with a jump and looked about him. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

We woke up early, as usual, and immediately started the pack-up while Wab and Rose boiled water for the mush and got the youngest and oldest set for the day. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Her youngest never woke up after a boss hit him in the head with a wooden block. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At the stroke of midnight I woke up again: more planes! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And when I woke up, I was slumped against a soldier who smiled at me and asked if I’d been traveling long. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

To listen and watch, to wake up and try to understand what has already happened. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thank God, I didn’t scream out and wake up everyone in the house. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything would be better when she woke up. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Each time she knocked on the door, and each time she woke up just before it opened, every muscle tense. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Do people just wake up and become depressed?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t know about any of this until I woke up and checked my Twitter feed that morning. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When she woke up, she checked on Aziza, felt the parched cracks of her lips, the faint pulse at her neck, lay down again. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He would wake up in high spirits after a night of dreaming about grilled meat. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Right? So now, when I wake up on Tuesday mornings, instead of thinking, ‘Ugh, I have to go to Professor Milton’s class today,’ I try to think, ‘Hey, I get ice cream after class today!’ Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I felt so joyful it took my breath away, and I woke up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He wrote, Some mornings I wake up feeling grateful. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some are cooking breakfast, others are just waking up, and many are still asleep on the side of the road or in the grass. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music always went on past dark—sometimes I wouldn’t remember going to sleep, I’d just wake up the next morning in bed, still in my folk-dance costume. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

But when he woke up, he lied to his mother that he wasn't feeling well. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

But what did worry me was the part about how I'd woke up and found him patting me on the head and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I, I, I woke up, and the bed was on fire.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I checked her breathing over and over for a long time until she woke up, agitated. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Dad’s not home from Uncle Spencer’s when I wake up the next morning. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I pictured him waking up in the morning, staring at his closet, and thinking, Hmm . . . hmm . . . how about a white shirt and a black tie? Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It would have served him right to wake up at least half as sore as I was going to. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I woke up late, and I just don’t know what to make you for breakfast. How about some more of that sweet bread from yesterday? I think there’s still some left.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I keep dreaming about my research and waking up Jennifer because I’m punching the mattress.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

When she woke up that morning, she felt like it was her birthday— like she used to feel on her birthday, back when there was a shot in hell of ice cream. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He woke up and she was gone; his fists were full of sand and he was sweating. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I wake up my eyes are dry—my eyes are always dry—but my sheets are twisted around my body and drenched with sweat. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She wondered if she would ever wake up, and if Sean would be waiting for her when she did. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The body is the easiest thing to adjust to, if you’re used to waking up in a new one each morning. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He woke up the next morning in his car, having slept the whole night while parked in Rock Creek Park, a wooded area that snaked through the center of the city. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

You could go to sleep and wake up and never have to think who likes and doesn’t like you. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny White wrote, “We woke up all scared and having frequent visits with Alvin.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Did she ever wake up in the middle of the night and try to remember everything she could about Dad, the way Chess did sometimes? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I'm not a superstitious person, but when I wake up from this dream, this painfully clear memory of John, I have the most horrible feeling in my chest. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But what if the dream doesn’t go away when you wake up? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He’s scratching the back of his neck the way he always does when he first wakes up. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

When the son woke up, it was still dark and the hall was empty. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I have to wake up, I have to start my day. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When I woke up there was a bright light in my eyes and somebody was digging into my shoulder with a scalpel. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mabel was already showered and dressed by the time I woke up. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When I woke up this morning, I noticed the infection had gotten worse. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Harry woke up, so warm, so very sleepy, that he didn’t open his eyes, wanting to drop off again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And even though I was grateful for all of them, I wondered how my life would be different if my dad had just...woke up. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

When she finally fell asleep, she slept deeply, and waking up was like dragging herself through mud. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, as Toby sat on the ground shivering, it felt like he was stuck in a nightmare and there was no chance of waking up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I woke up early the next morning still in my clothes from the day before. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think they might wonder what’s happened if they wake up and find themselves in a place that looks like it’s just been bombed?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The crow had tricked him into flying, but when he woke up he was broken and the world was changed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Luke didn’t say much, not then or the next morning when Toby woke up and Luke had somehow cobbled together enough money for some frozen waffles. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

As always, I woke up screaming, but this was even worse than usual. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in case I don’t wake up because of some complication, I shoot them one last text: Whatever happens to me, scatter me at Althea. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Shadow woke up stretched out in the back of a sedan car. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I woke up screaming, but I was all alone, and there was no one to hear me. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And both of those tired, little monkeys sleep through the night—without waking up from a nightmare once. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

His heart was pounding, the way it does sometimes when you sleep too hard in the middle of the day, like you can't remember how to wake up. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

When I woke up, Dedd’s voice was in my ear, invoking the Lord’s name. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought the fabric would smolder for a minute and then Sasha would wake up and slap it out, startled. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She hit it in time to the song that had been in her mind when she woke up. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I wake up several times during the night from a nightmare where I’m trapped in a glass room. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Harry hissed, springing up and pulling Dobby back onto the bed — Hedwig had woken up with a particularly loud screech and was beating her wings wildly against the bars of her cage. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

George woke up early that morning, half expecting to hear Papa calling him for chores. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

I had to fight like a tiger to wake up the next morning. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

My mom had gone off to work as soon as she woke up. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

People woke up to find fire at their windows, and ran from their doors howling warning, only to encounter the same flames everywhere, leaping and lapping, laying the countryside bare. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cleaned his face with a damp cloth, took off his clothes, and then got completely undressed and lowered the mosquito netting so that her children would not see them if they woke up. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I wanted to fall asleep and wake up to find it was only a dream. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up again and again that night, but I didn’t hear Joseph moving or breathing or dreaming. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Their flashlights disturbed the bats, and more bats woke up. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drove around the perimeter of Jefferson Park so we could avoid driving past our houses, just in case our parents had woken up and discovered us missing. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I do not know who woke up first. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had gone to bed with a headache and woken up with a glossy fever fog over my brain, and a sore throat to match. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

This morning I got to wake up next to Arthur, and I can’t believe there was almost a world where that never happened. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It would be like heaven, she thought, falling asleep in his arms, waking up beside him. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I sleep I wake up in terror, with hands on my throat. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mom would need to be woken up; she’d just gotten on at the Pepsi factory, working third shift. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

On Monday morning, September 16, my brothers and sister and I woke up, dressed in our rooms as always, and then met together in the kitchen to eat. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday I could not explain the mental anxiety and physical pains I woke up with. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The noise woke up the bald guy, who got out of the car and stretched his arms and lit up a cigarette. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Everything was like that: the ground shifted while we slept, and we woke up each day to terrible new surprises. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She woke up his computer and wrote a story. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She did not remember what it was about but she remembered that it had been happy, and so she woke up warming herself with the thought that she could still have a happy dream. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When finally I wake up I am in a daze and wonder what has befallen me. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t wanna wake up from the dream world,” I said, and midsentence my voice cracked, and the words twisted and turned in my mouth. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He really wouldn’t mind if she did wake up, and came down and took care of him. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Me and Shug cook, talk, clean the house, talk, fix up the tree, talk, wake up in the morning, talk. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A black man is shown waking up from sleep on a bale of cotton, symbolizing his independence from the southern economy. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"She didn't sleep at all last night; she'll wake up again unless I keep walking." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When I slept, I would dream that one came and drove on past without knowing I was here; then I would wake up and run to the road looking for the taillight disappearing. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

When he wakes up, he jumps from his chair and shouts, “The reel!” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It’s a dream I don’t want to wake up from. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her brothers and sisters were waking up and crawling to one another frantically. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe it's the shock and anger of learning I have to leave, but something wakes up inside me, something as powerful as a searchlight, and I jump up and stamp my feet. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I would wake up full of rage, a feeble shaky rage that turned into feeble tears. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up just as it grows light. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, when I wake up,” he went on, “and the city wakes up, you’ll just be going to sleep?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I woke up with stiff muscles and frozen toes on her tarp one morning, her small form huddled under layers, cheeks pink with warmth and rest. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Matt wondered what would happen if they suddenly woke up. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up from those short of breath and sweaty. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“When I was your age,” he’d said, “I was already working two jobs. And here you are, complaining about waking up for school!” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I woke up nearly every day to her standing in the kitchen, Preacher Green playing on the radio that sat on the kitchen table. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I'd squat down to pet the cat and wake up on the floor eight hours later, having lost a perfectly good excuse to change my clothes. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I looked around the room and wondered why I’d woken up. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

My worst fear was that I would wake up and find him dead. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When she was here I used to wake up in the middle of the night and go downstairs and just lay beside her, and we’d watch TV and laugh. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she woke up at noon she would call the child to bring her water. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their fellow campers were starting to wake up. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Fact is, I didn't wake up till it was full light and we were a couple of hours before Wake Village. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up to a cricket chirping near my ear, and when I sat up, a horde of them skipped away, like a handful of clay pellets hurled into the tall yellow grass. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Faber shook his head as if he were waking up. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark woke up in a cold sweat, as if the spray from the water in his dream had doused him while he slept. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

"Any one of my siblings could have woken up, they still could, and they would definitely tell on me. They have very confused alliances." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

When I wake up on Wednesday, December 21, I am happy that this year is practically over and that it’s almost time to tear off the last month of the calendar. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Boots murmured in her sleep but didn’t wake up. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In about twenty minutes he woke up, and said to me quite cheerfully:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Luisa was holding a little boy in her arms, who had obviously just woken up from a nap. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Enough to make my normally easygoing parents fight loud enough to wake up the neighbors. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The light came on and I woke up. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you wake up intending to murder someone at two o’clock, you hardly think what you’re going to feed the corpse for dinner.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But the Colonel and 1 both woke up when she returned, whenever that was, because she slammed the door. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He became argumentative, a barroom brawler, and he would wake up rolling in his own filth in Catarino's store. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes and woke up to the perfect ending of the worst nightmare any person could ever have; ’twas the cap’n standing o’er me with fire in his eyes. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I’m like a man who’s been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z