“Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.”
“When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.”
“I know the difference between being awake and being asleep when im awake..when im asleep not so much”
“Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed ... awake.' Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again.'I'm tired of sleeping.”
“We were the only three people awake in a world half asleep and the air felt heavy with maybe.”
“I feel like Sleeping Beauty, forever asleep, with the waking world continuing on without me fully aware. Only there is no prince to wake me from this slumber, this half-life.”