“It worried me, this covering of couches. What could be so frightfully dirty that fourteen layers of linens were needed to cover it? Sensing this could be a test, I shifted slightly to see if someone might have placed a pea somewhere under the cushion that I was supposed to feel with my behind. Nothing. I guess I'll never be a princess.” HumorSarcasmCouchesLinenSarcastic HumorCushionPrincess And The Pea Book:Fatal Indemnity Source: Fatal Indemnity
“The extremity of her sensitivity impressed a richly idle princely family, of her discomfort, bothered as she had to be by the absurd softness of the ample beddings, not to mention the pillow piles aggravating her much lamented acrophobic dis-ease. [from the poem, Princess and the Pea]” PoetryPoemFairy TalesPrincess And The Pea Author:Joseph Stanton
“The stoniest of greens Plague queens not yet queens Just one beneath can steal the sleep Of maidens counting sheep” RiddlePrincess And The Pea Book:The Unfairest of Them All Source: The Unfairest of Them All