“He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.”
“One afternoon, disgusted, bravo, you fall asleep.”
“People change, he thought -it's truism- but how? Our life is confined to days, after all: Sunday to Monday, dusk to dawn. What great alterations can take place in someone between breakfast and lunch? Is it possible to wake up as one person and fall asleep as another?”
“Suddenly the thought that the end of her life was imminent shocked him; it was one thing to pity someone he didn't know, quite another to face the same dilemma with someone he knew intimately. That was the trouble with beds. They turned strangers into intimates more quickly than ten years of polite teas in parlours.”
“Strangling is the most intimate way to kill someone,”
“Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.”