“Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.”
Saul Bellow book The Adventures of Augie March
Source: The Adventures of Augie March
Source: Beautiful Ruins
“Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.”
Saul Bellow book The Adventures of Augie March
Source: The Adventures of Augie March
Jonathan Safran Foer book Eating Animals
Variant: While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
Source: Eating Animals
“Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.”
Alexander Smith (1829–1867) Scottish poet and essayist
Dreamthorp: Essays written in the Country (1863).
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Sei il mio pensiero che felicemente al mattino mi sveglia e che di notte dolcemente mi addormenta.
Source: prevale.net
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once.”
John Green book The Fault in Our Stars
Hazel Grace Lancaster, p. 125
Compare Ernest Hemingway, speaking about the process of going bankrupt: "'Gradually and then suddenly.'"
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
Edward Hopper (1882–1967) prominent American realist painter and printmaker
1911 - 1940, Notes on Painting - Edward Hopper (1933)
Kamila Shamsie (1973) Pakistani writer
Source: On how politics still seeps into peoples’ personal lives in “INTERVIEWS: Kamila Shamsie” https://bookpage.com/interviews/21570-kamila-shamsie-fiction#.Xc2ItmNKjcs in BookPage (2017 Aug 1)