Afternoon Quote by Jess Walter

“I had noticed before that to sleep, actually sleep with someone did give this sense of intimacy, as though your dreams had flowed out…

— Diana Gabaldon

“when she looked at him here in the dusk, her first and overwhelming desire, if one could call it that, was to invite him…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“In older, more primitive times (like these? asked another part of my mind), it was an act of trust to sleep in the presence…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Pasquale’s eyes felt heavy and he thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon”

— Jess Walter

“I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I had noticed that before to sleep, actually sleep with someone did…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Not knowing what to make of it, he admired her longer. The fact that she’d chosen his bed couldn’t be a coincidence, so he…

— Vivienne Savage

Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.

— Mark Strand

“In time, she eased into sleep, and her head rested against the plane of his shoulder. He held her and wondered that such a…

— Dorien Kelly

He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably…

— Ernest Hemingway

“How could she sleep through their last hours together?”

— Rainbow Rowell

Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

— Virginia Woolf

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

— Anonymous