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“We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From this high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities. We take pride in our short fuses. Our anger elevates, transcends.”
― Salman Rushdie, East, West

“And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“That murk, it’s always there. It's both a threat and a promise. I am narcoleptic.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

“I have the sense that a lot of time has passed. Or maybe just a little. I have no way of knowing.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

“But that's how time works for me. My constant enemy, it attacks whenever I'm not looking.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

“Because waiting in lines is detrimental to my tenuous mental state, I walk toward the front.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

“But my lights are dimming a bit already, an encroaching numbness to the excitement and bustle around me.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

“Sleep is heavy. It has mass.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

“Truth is usually greeted with disdain.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

“They think I'm lazy or just odd.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

“Most people think I really could keep from falling asleep if I wanted to. If I just focused, like narcolepsy is some algebraic equation I could solve if I worked at it hard enough, did all the homework. I'm a bad joke, a punchline.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

“It’s easy to think the worst when it always happens.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

“That's what courage is, dumbass perseverance.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

“I know you were lying to me the whole night. That's OK because I lied to you too. I said I didn’t remember what I felt like before my accident, before I became the narcoleptic me. I remember what it felt like. I was awake, always awake. I didn’t miss anything. I could read books for more than a few pages at a time. I didn’t smoke. I watched movies from start to finish in real goddamn theaters, wouldn’t even leave my seat to go to the bathroom. I stayed up late on purpose. Woke up and went to sleep when I wanted. Sleep was my pet, something I control, schedule, took for walks. Sit up, roll over, lie down, stay down, give me your fucking paw. Not now, only me, and everything else is on the periphery. Just slightly out of reach or out of touch or out of time. I don’t have a real career or a real life. Ellen supports me and I sleepwalk through the rest.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

“Sleep is coming. I feel it. At least this time, I want it.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

“I remember everything I lost. That’s what I remember. The loss and loss and loss….”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

“I'm tired. I'm always tired. It's part of being me.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

“As if 'careful' ever has anything to do with Narcolepsy.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

“I sit on the couch like a dropped piano.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

“I can nod my head and add the occasional commiserative chuckle in my sleep.”
― Paul Tremblay, No Sleep Till Wonderland

“All my mornings are false starts.”
― Paul Tremblay, No Sleep Till Wonderland

“A narcoleptic is the ultimate cynic, left with nothing to believe in- least of all himself- because everything could simply be a dream, and a lousy meaningless one at that.”
― Paul Tremblay, No Sleep Till Wonderland

“Yeah, because all it takes to know narcolepsy is an hour or two in the afternoon.”
― Paul Tremblay, No Sleep Till Wonderland

“Her brain demands rest and she can't fight herself any longer. She sleeps.”
― Gilly Macmillan, The Long Weekend