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You sure about this?" he asked in a guttural voice. "I get down on that mattress right now, I'm not stopping until I'm inside of you.

J.R. Ward

Voice, Stopping, Right Now

J.R. Ward (2010). “Crave: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.129, Penguin

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Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.

Patricia Briggs

White, House, President

Patricia Briggs (2008). “Cry Wolf”, p.13, Penguin

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Betrayal was a stone beneath a mattress of thr bed you shared, something you felt digging into you no matter how you shifted position. What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

Jodi Picoult

Betrayal, Forgiving, Stones

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How are you in the profession of protecting people without knowing who I am? I’ve been told I have one of the most recognizable faces in the world. (Aiden) Wow…just out of curiosity, when you go to bed at night, do you find yourself ousted off the mattress by that ego? (Leta)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Night, Who I Am, Knowing

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I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help.

Mary Hoffman

Girl, Thinking, Promise

Mary Hoffman (2010). “Stravaganza: City of Masks”, p.217, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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 have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]

Linda Pastan

Bed, Would Be, Absence

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2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man's cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty bottle, euphoria, youth fenced in, stabbed and shaven, taught words propped up to die.

Charles Bukowski

Dream, Horse, Beer

Charles Bukowski (2009). “Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame”, p.26, Harper Collins

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If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed.

Avi Rubin

Bed, Doe, Care

"Health-care sector vulnerable to hackers, researchers say" by Robert O'Harrow Jr., www.washingtonpost.com. December 25, 2012.

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In the long run, a portfolio of well chosen stocks and/or equity mutual funds will always outperform a portfolio of bonds or a money-market account. In the long run, a portfolio of poorly chosen stocks won't outperform the money left under the mattress.

Peter Lynch

Running, Long, Investing

Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. Fog is about the color of the insides of an old split wet summer cottage mattress; smog is the color and consistency of a wet potato chip soaked in a motorman’s glove.

Chuck Jones

Summer, Confused, Fog

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I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.

Bill Bryson

Travel, Fascination, Bunk

Bill Bryson (2010). “A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike”, p.104, Random House

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His touch both consoles and devastates me; I feel my heart pulse, then wither, naked as a stone on the roaring mattress while the lovely, moony night slides through the window to dapple the flanks of this innocent who makes cages to keep the sweet birds in. Eat me, drink me; thirsty, cankered, goblin-ridden, I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning.

Angela Carter

Sweet, Heart, Night

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Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was lying on the mattress. Yes," I said. "I think it was. Certainly, it's written that way. The end of the book is there before the beginning's hardly started.

Ian Rankin

Lying, Book, Thinking

Ian Rankin (2014). “Knots and Crosses: An Inspector Rebus Novel”, p.170, Macmillan

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His pacing stopped. The mattress sighed as he sat on the edge. seconds ticked by before he spoke so softly she could barely hear. "Sometimes I want to leave this town so bad I can taste it.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Want, Taste, Towns

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You might be a redneck if The Salvation Army declines your mattress.

Jeff Foxworthy

Army, Redneck, Might

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I have an air mattress. It's great because if someone tries to suffocate me in bed I can just poke a hole in it and use it to stay alive.

Demetri Martin

Air, Trying, Bed

Twitter post from Apr 17, 2012

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An example I love: Diwata auditioned for the school play by doing a big number from Once Upon A Mattress. I went home and my boyfriend plunked out the notes for me, and I had to learn and prepare that song just so I could learn and know how that feels. I've never had that kind of detail in a rehearsal process. Jason Moore is absolutely unbelievable.

Sarah Steele

Song, School, Home

Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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That's enough of that," Jesse said. Next thing I knew, he'd scooped me up. Only instead of carrying me to my bed and setting me down on it all romantically, you know, like guys do to girls in the movies, he just dumped me onto it, so I bounced around and would have fallen off if I hadn't grabbed the edge of the mattress. "Thanks," I said, not quite able to keep all of the sarcasm out of my voice.

Meg Cabot

Girl, Sarcasm, Voice

Meg Cabot (2009). “Grave Doubts”, p.130, Pan Macmillan

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To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or in the mattress of their bed. Wouldn't it be better if the parents just discussed this with the kids instead of creating this culture of sneaking and dishonesty within the family? The moral of the story being, you don't hide reality from your kids because then they grow up to be smarter, more aware adults.

Jello Biafra

Growing Up, Teenager, Kids

Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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When 40 billion of treasury bills are sold like, seven day treasury bills, at a yield of 1/20th of one percent, that means the whole country is basically at the point virtually, or a lot of the country is at the point of putting the money under the mattress.

Warren Buffett

Country, Mean, Yield

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It might sound crazy but you put your money up and take out a little every week. You put yourself on a salary instead of getting $7,000 this week, $20,000 next week and $5,000 the week after that. Take a $1,000. You got your toys, you got everything and your money under your mattress. Break it down and have a salary to take care of you and your family and stretch that money.

Rakim

Crazy, Next Week, Care

Source: halftimeonline.net

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He would have felt safe if alongside the Dentrassis' underwear, the piles of Sqornshellous mattresses and the man from Betelgeuse holding up a small yellow fish and offering to put it in his ear he had been able to see just a small packet of cornflakes. But he couldn't, and he didn't feel safe.

Douglas Adams

Men, Offering, Yellow

"The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Five Novels in One Outrageous Volume".

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His three wives are huddled together on the bare mattress, one of them dying; when we're together, we form an alliance he can't touch. He's scared to even try.

Lauren DeStefano

Wife, Dying, Trying

Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. My fingers stretch out, seeking Prim`s warmth but finding only the rough canvas cover of the mattress. She must have had bad dreams and climbed in with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the Reaping.

Suzanne Collins

Mother, Dream, Bed

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.5, Scholastic Inc.

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