Bed Quotes - Page 13

• He's laughing me into a stupor, she thought. I could heckle, I suppose, I could throw a bread roll at him, but he's eaten them all. She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show? Eat a meal, go to bed, fall in love with me and I promise you years and years of top notch material like this?

  David Nicholls

  Falling In Love, Romantic Love, Love Is

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• Contact would hurt, might be fatal, and yet she couldn’t stop herself. Obsession or compulsion, she didn’t know, but she did know that before this was over, she’d either end up in Dmitri’s bed . . . or one of them would bleed darkest red.

  Nalini Singh

  Hurt, Might, Red

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Archangel's Blade”, p.120, Penguin

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• Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.

  Maimonides

  Heart, Communes, Stills

  "The Guide for the Perplexed".

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• It must be because you're so approachable", I say flatly. "You know, like a bed of nails." He stares at me, and I don't look away. He isn't a dog but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive. Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It's my choice. Heat rushes into my cheeks. What will happen when this tension breaks? But he just says, "Careful, Tris.

  Veronica Roth

  Dog, Eye, Choices

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• Hey. Not sure what’s going on-gonna go find out. Be careful and don’t do anything stupid. Don’t come after me-your better on your own. See you. F I sat on the edge of the bed, holding the note. Okay, so Fang had looked up vague in the dictionary and this was what it had said to write.

  James Patterson

  Stupid, Writing, Hey

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• I don't dare start thinking in the morning. I don't dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head-- So I don't dare start thinking in the morning.

  Langston Hughes

  Morning, Thinking, Dare

  Langston Hughes (2004). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Gospel plays, operas, and later dramatic works”, p.528, University of Missouri Press

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• Dear God, Tatiana prayed in bed that night, turning to the wall and pulling the white sheet and the thin brown blanket over herself. If You are there somewhere, please teach me how to hide what I never knew how to show.

  Paullina Simons

  Wall, Night, White

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• Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn’t the mirror hostile enough?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Writing, Strangers And Friends

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• I've learned all I need to know to live under a bed.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Needs, I've Learned, Knows

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• What're you still doing up? You know all good little ninjas should be in bed, visions of homicidal sugarplums dancing in their heads.

  Rob Thurman

  Dancing, Vision, Littles

  Rob Thurman (2006). “Nightlife”, p.14, Penguin

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• Women beg me for it, and not the other way around." "Then you should go to one of them." "Oh, I will. When we return to London, I'm going to embark on a spree of orgiastic debauchery that won't end until someone is arrested for it. But in the meanwhile...do you truly expect that the two of us are going to share a bed tonight-and tomorrow night-as chastely as a pair of nuns on holiday?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Holiday, Night, Two

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• Dakota's head was stuck in his toga. He staggered around olike a Kool-Aid-stained ghost. "Um," Percy said, "should I wear my bed sheets?

  Rick Riordan

  Togas, Ghost, Aids

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• Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be done." He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. "If you're William Blake and totally crazy.

  Maurice Sendak

  Crazy, Yummy, Jumping

  "Maurice Sendak: 'I refuse to lie to children'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2011.

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• And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

  John Keats

  Art, Flower, Moss

  John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.172

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• There is a simple, logical explanation,' I said to myself. And because you never know who else is listening, I added, 'And there is nothing under the bed.'" --Dexter

  Jeff Lindsay

  Simple, Listening, Logical

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• I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run around her empty house without any clothes on, even once she was too old for that. Nothing embarrassed her. I admired that so much, because everything embarrassed me, and that hurt me. She loved to jump on her bed. She jumped on her bed for so many years that one afternoon, while I watched her jump, the seams burst. Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Running, Hurt, Laughter

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• It felt almost rude to ignore toe pretty white bed, but we just weren’t going to make it that far.

  Stephenie Meyer

  White, Rude, Toes

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• This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Dream, Cities, Ghost

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1994). “Fires”, p.99, University of Chicago Press

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• It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.

  Philip Reeve

  Spring, Dark, Sea

  Philip Reeve (2012). “Predator Cities x 4 and The Traction Codex”, p.13, Scholastic UK

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• Bryn ate her bagel in silence, and by the time she was finished, Liam had already neatly packed her overnight bag and loaded it in MacAllister's car. He even included a new dog bed for Mr. French to travel in confort. Lunch was in moducal little boxes. "I think he is Alfred." "Actually, I often wonder if he's Batman.

  Rachel Caine

  Dog, Thinking, Lunch

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• I had fun last night," I told Patch, flicking off my chin strap and handing over my helmet. "I'm officially on love with your sheets." "That the only thing you're in love with?" "Nope. Your mattress, too." Some smile crept into Patch's eyes. "My bed's an open invitation.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Fun, Eye, Night

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “Silence”, p.433, Simon and Schuster

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• I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and i smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Nice, Ceilings, Quiet

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Lying in bed, half-covered by the blankets, I would drowsily ask why he had come to my door that night long ago. It had become a ritual for us, as it does for all lovers: where, when, why? remember...I understand even old people rehearse their private religion of how they first loved, most guarded of secrets. And he would answer, sleep blurring his words, "Because I had to." The question and the answer were always the same. Why? Because I had to.

  Margaret George

  Lying, Sleep, Night

  Margaret George (2010). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel”, p.751, Macmillan

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• Having got into bed and turned out the light, I quietly burst into tears because I am not a good person. As they came and went for some minutes, I was concerned with the words following 'because' in the previous sentence, rewriting them over and over in my head until they seemed to be as close to the truth as it was possible for me to make them.

  Edward Gorey

  Light, Tears, Rewriting

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• The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight.

  Virginia Woolf

  Moon, Voice, Rivers

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “The String Quartet”, p.5, Booklassic

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