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“I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the pillow and sigh for a long time. It seemed there would never be another book. It was all over, the book was dead. It lay in its bent cover by my hand. What was the use? Why bother dragging the weight of my small body down to dinner? Why move? Why breathe? The book had left me, and there was no reason to go on.”

Long Book Reason Use Body Hands Moving Left Grief Position Goes On Bed Long Time Sitting Weight Lays Dinner Finished Breathe Bother No Reason Cheeks Bent Sigh Slides Pillow Why Bother

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they?”

Knows Science Lying Reading Know How Couple Bed Arguing Naked Lazy Good Times Afternoon Saturday Galaxy Having A Good Time Numinous Andromeda Saturday Afternoon

Author:Carl Sagan

“The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.”

Land Bed Desert Cracks Sigh Lanes Glaciers Cupboards

Author:W. H. Auden

“If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily.”

Ifs Knows Men Kind Littles Feelings Night Pay Attention Special One Day Bed Capable Female Phones Nevertheless Suggestions

Author:Paulo Coelho

“When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.”

Feels Should Has Beens Done Hands Earth Nature My Own Health Bed Garden Should Have Gardening Gardener Springtime Spades Exhilaration

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”

Book Lying Morning Bed Urges Terrific

Book:All of Us: The Collected Poems

Source: All of Us: The Collected Poems

“Where you can never sleep because of noisy brain.No matter how tired you are. It's impossible to accomplish anything but lying here in bed. Frustrated and victimized at three in the morning.”

Matter Lying Three Sleep Brain Morning Impossible Bed Tired Accomplish Frustrated Noisy Never Sleep Lying Here

Author:Susane Colasanti

“And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged moles, the lumps on the breast, the coughs that have turned nasty. In the Marie Curie Ward on the fourth floor are the kids with cancer. Their bodies secretly and slowly being consumed. And then there's the mortuary, where the dead lie in refrigerated drawers with name tags on their feet.”

Body Kids Lying Names Feet Building Bed Cancer Breasts Going Away Fourth Nasty Consumed Headache Tag Lumps Drawers Deep Inside Kidneys Marie Ragged Moles Mortuary

Book:Before I Die

Source: Before I Die

“Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning Dearer than any of these by far Is to lie in bed in the morning”

Lying Stars Morning Rich Car Bed Bars Evening Brides Hershey

Book:Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Source: Please Don't Eat the Daisies

“In the morning I get out of bed, I brush my teeth, I wash my face, I get dressed in the clothes I like best. I want to be good to myself.”

Want Faces Morning Bed Clothes Be Good Teeth Brushes

Book:Brother

Source: Brother

“In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.”

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

“I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. But I remembered one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.”

People Ifs Way Years Firsts Said I Can Night Acting Wonder One Thing Heard Bed Lays Dumb Remembered Fishing Say Anything Deaf

Author:Ken Kesey

“Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window the color is see in ripe plums? If she always sees backward and upside down without knowing it what chance do we have? I am haunted by the feeling that she is saying melting lords of death, avalanches, rivers and moments of passing through, And I am replying, "Yes, yes. Shoes and pudding.”

Source: Collected Poems

“In the plenitude of their relationship, Florentina Ariza asked himself which of the two was love: the turbulent bed or the peaceful Sunday afternoons, and Sara Noriega calmed him with the simple argument that love was everything they did naked. She said, 'Spiritual love from the waist up and physical love from the waist down.”

Said Two Spiritual Simple Bed Argument Naked Peaceful Sunday Afternoon Spiritual Love Plenitude Sunday Afternoons

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards.”

“God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!”

Knows Children Bed Red Riding Hood Child Of God Red Riding Hood

Book:Nightwood

Source: Nightwood

“AMPLE make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise’ yellow noise Interrupt this ground.”

Waiting Break Bed Judgment Fairs Rounds Noise Excellent Awe Yellow Sunrise Pillow Mattresses

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“I carried Rudy softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder at comforting. I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor. He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“Tal told me he loved me, and told me and told me, but you don't tell someone that and then tell them they're not experienced enough in bed and should read a book or something to learn, or they should try wearing deep-red lipstick and tight skirts to look hot like their best friend once in a while. If Tal hadn't lied to me when he said he loved me, I might not be without a future right now, a sucker who was so chickenshit she allowed herself to believe a false dream from a false god. I'm not sure I ever even liked Tal, much less loved him.”

Ifs Should Trying Believe Looks Said Book Enough Dream Might Right Now Bed Red Hot Not Sure Lied Skirts Lipstick Sucker False Gods Red Lipstick Lied To Me

Author:Rachel Cohn

“Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk." "Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him.”

Ifs Said Feelings Might Doors Wall Fool Bed My Friends Drunk Bedroom Howl Upstairs Cones Howl's Moving Castle Calcifer

Book:Wizard's Castle

Source: Wizard's Castle

“I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said. "With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night." "I want to go home and into bed." "We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go home. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night. I am reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the cafe.”

Want Needs Kind May Said Two Different Home Light Beautiful Night Youth Bed Late Different Kinds Reluctant Very Beautiful Waiter Cafes

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.”

Said Lying Sleep Bed Insomnia Going To Sleep Daylight

Book:Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

Source: Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

“I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the milk came, she began a little low contented sort of singing. I would feel milk and love flowing from me to her as once it had flowed to me. It emptied me. As the baby fed, I seemed slowly to grow empty of myself, as if in the presence of that long flow of love even grief could not stand.”

Ifs Feels Littles Long Grows Grief Baby Bed Singing Lows Flow Empty And Love Feds Milk Nurse Pillow

Book:Hannah Coulter: A Novel

Source: Hannah Coulter: A Novel

“The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them.”

Ifs Wells Left Sex Felt Emotion Gratitude Bed Affair Debt Comes And Goes One Woman Kinder Deep Emotions

Book:The fall

Source: The fall

“What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you--if you happen to be me--with homecoming queens first, then girls next door, and finally anybody who might be pleased to see you now and then at the dinner table and in bed on occasion. You look up from reading the newspaper and realize that no one loves you, and no one burns for you.”

Source: The feast of love

“The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.”

Sleep Trouble Bed Kissing Males Rough Smooth Sheets Blanket Funny Sleep Funny Sleeping Kindliness Trouble Sleeping

Author:Rupert Brooke

“I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.”

Ifs Past Bed Exciting Warm Jealous

Book:The Twyborn Affair: A Novel

Source: The Twyborn Affair: A Novel

“It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.”

Religion Bed Funny Things

Book:The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair

Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair

“There are times in a person's life when he or she must make a choice to believe. I choose to believe the sun will rise tomorrow. I also choose to believe that if you go to bed hungry you will wake up ready to eat. I've met a group of men in a faraway country who choose to believe that if you stand on a tree stump for an hour you will gain sympathy for trees. I am already quite sympathetic to trees, so I choose to think they are bonkers.”

Ifs Thinking Men Believe Persons Country Choices Hours Sun Groups Tree Ready Tomorrow Mets Bed Gains Wake Up Hungry Sympathetic Stumps

Book:The Wrath of Ezra

Source: The Wrath of Ezra

“For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./ But glaring under his brows Odysseus answered: 'You yellow dogs, you thought I'd never make it/ home from the land of Troy. You took my house to plunder,/ twisted my maids to serve your beds. You dared/ bid for my wife while I was still alive./ Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven,/ contempt for what men say of you hereafter./ Your last hour has come. You die in blood.”

Men Stills Home Lasts Dies House Heaven Hours Alive Wife Blood Land Dog Fool Bed Shots Killing Wide My Wife Contempt Yellow Twisted Hereafter Brows Maids Plunder Odysseus

Book:The odyssey

Source: The odyssey

“i made myself a snowball As perfect as can be. I thought I'd keep it as a pet, And let it sleep with me. I made it some pajamas And a pillow for it's head. Then last night it ran away, But first - It wet the bed.”

Firsts Made Lasts Night Sleep Perfect Bed Made It Ran Pet Wet Last Night Pillow Pajamas Snowball

Author:Shel Silverstein

“If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.”

Ifs Writing Wells Play Stories Film Faith Stuff Voice Morning Novel Teaching Bed Magazines Comic Faithful Dry Spells Every Morning Traps Essays Jumping Beans Bursting Comic Strips

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great intensity. The kind of state you would be in before going to bed with your partner. That heightened state when you're in a carnal embrace: time stops and nothing else matters. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.”

Ifs Should Writing Kind Matter States Would Be Next Bed Madness Embrace Partners Intense Intensity

Author:Tom Robbins

“Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.”

Book Lying Half Bed Six

Book:The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet--But There Ought to Be

Source: The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet--But There Ought to Be

“A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life”

May Moments Night Walks Bed Tables Mad Impulse Murderer Spy

Book:The Elixir of Life

Source: The Elixir of Life

“He stepped colser. Looked deep into my eyes. Hesitated a millisecond, and then dove in. "I think I'm falling in love with you." Oh. No. "Cole--" "I know how you feel. About me. About him. I just wanted you to know-we could be good together. We could have a life. Kids. Vacations. On Sunday mornings I could serve you breakfast in bed." He gave me his I-know-you-find-me-irrestible grin. "And then I could make you something to eat.”

“And you're not leaving," she said. "Promise me." It was as if she had asked him to promise to keep breathing, to notice sunshine, to permit the spinning of the earth. What choice did he have? Even if he left her, she would be camped in his heart, an insistent and willful presence. She would match her strides to his on any journey he ever took; she would lie beside him on any bed. Amalie, he said, "that's the easiest promise I've ever had to make.”

Ifs Heart Said Would Be Earth Lying Choices Left Journey Promise Bed Leaving Breathing Sunshine Permit Spinning Stride Promise Me

Author:Sharon Shinn

“Go back to bed', said the omniscient interior voice, because you don't need to know the final answer right now, at three o'clock in the morning on the Thursday in November. 'Go back to bed', because I love you. 'Go back to bed', beacause the only thing you need to do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do know the answer.”

Knows Needs Said Care Three Voice Answers Morning Love You Right Now Bed Finals Clock Interiors November Thursday Omniscient

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Then I glanced at the ring on my finger. The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from—but where did all you zombies come from? I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once—and you all went away. So I crawled into bed and whistled out the light. You aren’t really there at all. There isn’t anybody but me—Jane—here alone in the dark. I miss you dreadfully!”

Knows Light Felt Dark Forever One Thing Missing Bed Fingers Rings Tails Snakes Zombie Jane Headache Powder Alone In The Dark

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“soon I'll finish this 5th of Puerto Rican rum. in the morning I'll vomit and shower, drive back in, have a sandwich by 1 p.m., be back in my room by 2, stretched on the bed, waiting for the phone to ring, not answering, my holiday is an evasion, mt reasoning is not.”

Waiting Rooms Morning Bed Phones Rings Reasoning Holiday Showers Sandwiches Evasion Rum

Author:Charles Bukowski

“As I settled down to sleep in that new bed in the dark city, I saw that it was too late now, too late for everything. I would not be given a second chance. In the hours when I woke, I have to tell you that this struck me almost with relief.”

Given Hours Dark Chance Sleep Cities Saws Bed Late Relief Too Late Second Chance Given A Second Chance Dark City

Book:The Empty Family: Stories

Source: The Empty Family: Stories

“I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.”

Men Two Soul Forget Gone Wise Bed Two Things Each Day Self Discipline

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings, And shared a conversation with the housefly in my bed. Once I heard and answered all the questions of the crickets, And joined the crying of each falling dying flake of snow, Once I spoke the language of the flowers. . . . How did it go? How did it go?”

Said Fall Language Secret Heard Dying Cry Flower Bed Conversation Understood Snow Spokes Gossip Cricket Caterpillars Flakes Starlings

Author:Shel Silverstein

“I give nightly praise to my Maker that I never cast a ballot to bring that lazy, disreputable, ill-tempered beast into what was once my home. I'm glad that I had the courage to go on record as opposing that illegitimate, shameless flea-bag that now shares my bed and board. You abstainer, you!”

Giving Home Records Share Goes On Bed Praise Casts Ill Glad Boards Beast Lazy Bags Makers Opposing Ballots Fleas Shameless Ill Tempered

Book:CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN

Source: CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN

“i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.”

Bed Brilliant Swamps

Author:Marilyn Hacker

“Imagination is more important than information. Einstein said that, and he should know. And they come. And they look. And we push. And they fly. We to stay and die on our beds. They to go and die howsoever, yet inspiring those who come after them to find their own edge. And fly.”

Knows Should Looks Said Important Dies Imagination Information Bed Edges

Author:Robert Fulghum

“It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in acidents or altercations, while others skate through the years with nothing worse to worry about than an occassional bad-hair day. I still possessed both legs and both eyes, and even my hair looked all right when I rose that Wednesday morning in late January. If I returned to bed sixteen hours later, having lost all my hair but nothing else, I would consider the day a triumph. Even minus a few teeth, I'd call it a triumph.”

“Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.”

Thinking Dream Lying Bed Warm Unhappy Blanket

Book:Collected Stories

Source: Collected Stories

“Pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand - and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and she'll ask: my god, what's the matter? and you'll answer: I don't know, I don't know.”

“Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you're wonderful just the way you are. They don't understand that I can't remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about If you loved me you would.”

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