Bedroom Quotes - Page 18

• I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

  C. S. Lewis

  Father, Book, Men

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• I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden's head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader's face.

  Peter Bergen

  Blood, Leader, Navy

  "A visit to Osama bin Laden's lair" by Peter Bergen, www.cnn.com. May 3, 2012.

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• I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.

  Michael Shannon

  Growing Up, Acting, Sound

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• I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass!

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Moving, Earthquakes, House

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• Some things come with their own punishments. Like bedrooms with built-in cupboards. They would all learn more about punishments soon. That they came in different sizes. That some were so big they were like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. You could spend your whole life in them, wandering through dark shelving.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dark, Punishment, Size

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.115, Penguin Books India

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• "Oh My God," I blurted, grabbing onto Phin as we faced the open bedroom door. "It's the axe murderer." "I doubt he would knock," she said, but she was whispering, too, and didn't move away from me.

  Rosemary Clement-Moore

  Moving, Doors, Doubt

  "Texas Gothic". Book by Rosemary Clement-Moore, 2011.

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• When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Mother, Believe, Men

  Richard K. Morgan (2009). “The Steel Remains”, p.3, Del Rey

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• I had to lull Mom and Hank into believing I was in the right frame of mind to be taken into public. If I exited my bedroom foaming at the mouth and dressed in black LOVE SUCKS tee, my plan would never get off the ground.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Mom, Believe, Taken

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.609, Simon and Schuster

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• Or, if you decide you want to sleep at my place, on opposite sides of my bedroom with a Do Not Cross line drawn down the middle, I'll do it. I won't like it, but I'll do it.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Sleep, Opposites, Lines

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.868, Simon and Schuster

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• Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.

  Philippa Gregory

  Country, Husband, Taken

  Philippa Gregory (2007). “The Other Boleyn Girl: A Novel”, p.346, Simon and Schuster

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• The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Boys, Thinking, America

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• I would slay dragons for you,” he told her. “I suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will be easier.

  Patricia Briggs

  Dragons, Easier, Findings

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.215, Penguin

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• Henry shook his head, 'I was drunk,' he said, trying to sound both ashamed and firm in this belief. He remembered the rosebush incident very clearly, of course, but he knew that sneaking into the bedroom window of his fiancee's little sister wasn't something he wanted to explain to his father. Sometimes, Henry reflected, being taken for a perpetual drunk was sort of convenient.

  Anna Godbersen

  Father, Taken, Drunk

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• He stepped into my room with one graceful move, as if entering through bedroom windows was nothing out of the ordinary.

  Amanda Hocking

  Moving, Ordinary, Entering

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• I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

  Richard Brautigan

  Tired, Night, Light

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.

  Florence Welch

  Teenager, Red, Rooms

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• Anthony raised his red plastic cup to me and shouted something, but it was too hard to hear over the music. “What?” I called back. “You look great!” A goofy smile was plastered on his face. “Oh boy,” Vee said. “Not just a pimp, but a smashed pimp.” “So maybe he’s a little drunk.” “Drunk and hoping to corner you alone in a bedroom upstairs.” Ugh.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Boys, Drunk, Pimp

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Rotten, Habit, Scene

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.8, Hamilton Books

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• The only thing more dangerous then a vampire crazed with blood lust was a vampire crazed with anything else. All the meticulous single-mindedness that went into finding young women who slept with their bedroom window open got channeled into some other interest, with merciless and painstaking efficiency.

  Terry Pratchett

  Blood, Lust, Vampire

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• Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale blue bedroom, washed out sunny sky, dull green yellow brown of the fields. Here, I know ever twist of every road, every blade of grass, every face in this town, and I am suffocating.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Beautiful, Blue, Somewhere Else

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• Okay, Shane," Agnes said as Brenda's clock gonged midnight. "I got Joey in the kitchen, a cop in the front hall, a dead body in the basement, and you in my bedroom. Where do you want to start?

  Jennifer Crusie

  Kitchen, Midnight, Body

  Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer (2008). “Agnes and the Hitman”, p.25, Macmillan

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• As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Children, Night, Average

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• The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.

  Charles Bukowski

  Being Alone, People, Leave Me Alone

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.33, Canongate Books

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• I suffer for birds and fireflies but not frogs, she said, and threw him across the room. Kaboom! Like a genie out of a samovar, a handsome prince arose in the corner of the bedroom.

  Anne Sexton

  Firefly, Bird, Suffering

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest for thousands of years, and all the myths and legends of a hundred different lands seemed much more likely in this green haze than they had in my clear-cut bedroom. Bella Swan Stephenie Meyer

  Stephenie Meyer

  Believe, Cutting, Swans

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