The Little Sleep Quotes

“Hope is a desperate man's currency.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

“Being lost isn't the same as being nowhere. Being lost is worse because there's the false hope that you might be found.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

“I’m like a friend admitting some reprehensible bit of behavior that forever warps and taints the relationship. Only I’m not a friend. I think I understand her obvious discomfort. Strangers are supposed to lie.”
― 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

“Now I'm thinking about letters, the molecules of sentences and songs, the bricks of words.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

“Now there's only me and everything else is on the periphery, just slightly out of reach or out of touch or out of time.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

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

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

“I'm tired. I'm always tired. It's part of being me.”
― 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

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

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

“It’s easy to think the worst when it always happens.”
― 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

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

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

“Sleep is heavy. It has mass.”
― 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

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

“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

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

“I'm a name and a question.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep