The Sleeper Quotes

“I was just a tiny part of a huge universe, and nothing really mattered. Every single thing was temporary, and one day all of us would be gone without trace. It was an intensely soothing thought.”
― Emily Barr, The Sleeper

“Last time we went to the Ferryboat, I looked around at the families of upmarket beachgoers, at their healthy children expertly peeling prawns and drinking organic lemonade, and I tried to tell myself that everyone has sadnesses, that some of the adults would be hideously miserable in their marriages, that people would be having affairs and drinking too much and addicted to gambling, that lives would be on the verge of falling apart, families breaking up, businesses going bankrupt.”
― Emily Barr, The Sleeper

“You would have been happy with a wife who adored you, not someone who clung on to you like a life raft on a stormy sea and then wished she could cast you aside and move on when she reached land.”
― Emily Barr, The Sleeper

“It is lonely, being an evil alien in disguise.”
― Emily Barr, The Sleeper

“I am married to a man who calls a phone charger ‘the pluggy-in thing’, and the remote control ‘the buttony thing for the telly’.”
― Emily Barr, The Sleeper

“This, once almost an endearing habit, is now an affectation that drives me to the brink of homicide.”
― Emily Barr, The Sleeper

“apron, a cheap appropriation of the Cath Kidston effect. I feel like an interloper in someone else’s life. I am a creature from science fiction, wearing an earth body to disguise my true self.”
― Emily Barr, The Sleeper

“and he has never been anything worse to me than incredibly, cringingly annoying. I married the wrong man, with an inkling at the time that that was what I was doing, and so it is my fault and I am stuck.”
― Emily Barr, The Sleeper

“want to scream, and sometimes I do. On occasion, I scream as loudly as I can,”
― Emily Barr, The Sleeper

“I would rather be single. I cannot possibly say that.”
― Emily Barr, The Sleeper

“my face: I should have had a single tear frozen to my cheek,”
― Emily Barr, The Sleeper