Bedtime Quotes - Page 5

• Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Children, Reading, Glowing

  Siri Hustvedt (2012). “Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays”, p.48, Macmillan

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• Since I am from Spain, once the morning has gone, I like to take a nap while falling asleep to black and white movies. It feels less lonely. There is a comfort in hearing their voices, like when you're a child and your mother tells you a story before bedtime.

  Jordi Molla

  Mother, Lonely, Morning

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• I ... received a few hugs and dutiful pecks on the cheek at bedtime, even a couple of 'thank-yous' thrown in for good measure. But I'd truly love for someone to explain why the father of my children can simply walk into the house, put down his briefcase, grunt 'Hi kids - howyadoing,' and all four offspring nearly hyperventilate trying to be the first to get close to him. They are crazy about this man, and all he has to do is walk into a room and breathe.

  Becky Freeman

  Couple, Children, Father

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• So what I'm trying to say is you should text me back. Because there's a precedent. Because there's an urgency. Because there's a bedtime. Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and If you don't respond soon, I won't know if you'd wanna leave your shadow next to mine.

  Marina Keegan

  Love, Phones, Shadow

  Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• For most visitors to Manhattan, both foreign and domestic, New York is the Shrine of the Good Time. "I don't see how you stand it," they often say to the native New Yorker who has been sitting up past his bedtime for a week in an attempt to tire his guest out. "It's all right for a week or so, but give me the little old home town when it comes to living." And, under his breath, the New Yorker endorses the transfer and wonders himself how he stands it.

  Robert Benchley

  New York, Home, Past

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• But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Long, Independence, Religion

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Henryk Sienkiewicz (Illustrated)”, p.6150, Delphi Classics

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• From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, Reading, Candlelight

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• Homer and Candy passed by the empty and brightly lit dispensary; they peeked into Nurse Angela's empty office. Homer knew better than to peek into the delivery room when the light was on. From the dormitory, they could hear Dr. Larch's reading voice. Although Candy held tightly to his hand, Homer was inclined to hurry - in order not to miss the bedtime story.

  John Irving

  Reading, Light, Hands

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• And I know these scars will bleed, but both of our hearts believe all of these stars will guide us home

  Ed Sheeran

  Stars, Believe, Home

  Song: All of the Stars, 2014

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• There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Dog, Book, Water

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• I walked in on my folks doing it doggy style less than four hours ago." "Waitress!" Jonas screamed, clicking his fingers madly. "Bring two!" then, more quietly,"You want a neck massage? A bedtime story? A bullet in the ear?

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Two, Style, Massage

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• A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Morning, Fifteen, Next

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• The first thing we did was change all the clocks so that her siblings thought it was bedtime, then put them to bed ignoring their plaintive protests that they were not tired. They wept themselves to sleep soon enough.

  Meg Cabot

  Sibling, Tired, Sleep

  Meg Cabot (2016). “Bad Heir Day”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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• Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: "One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.

  Beatrix Potter

  Mother, Taken, Tea

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• Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways. A book, a poem, a song, a bedtime story, a grandmother's suicide, the choreography of a dance, a few frames of film, a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a deadly tumble from a horse, a faded photograph, or a story you tell your daughter.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Suicide, Daughter, Song

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• I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual where, on the cold bathroom tiles, I was spread out daily and examined for flaws. I did not know that my bones, those solids, those pieces of sculpture would not splinter.

  Anne Sexton

  Hoarding, Sculpture, Splinters

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• If you're really tired, I could put you to sleep," he said. "Tell you a bedtime story." She looked at him. "Are you serious?" "I'm always serious

  Cassandra Clare

  Tired, Sleep, Stories

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• Also, in my bedroom, nobody minded if I kept the hall door half-open, allowing in enough light that I was not scared of the dark, and, just as important, allowing me to read secretly, after my bedtime, using the dim hallway light to read by, if I needed to. I always needed to.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dark, Light, Doors

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

  Daniel Handler

  Notebook, Writing, Past

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• Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it... And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.

  Suzanne Collins

  Cheating, Joy, Trying

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander”, p.231, Scholastic Inc.

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• I fell asleep that night thinking about the kiss that might have been. What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn’t be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet – only science would put them on the same tree.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Mom, Dad, Kissing

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.15, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• What's this?" Nick said. "Bedtime?" No one answered him. I kept my eyes closed. You look positively content, Clayton," Nick continued, thumping down on the floor. "That wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that Elena is cuddled up with you, is it?" It's cold in here," I murmured. Doesn't feel cold." It's cold," Clay growled. I could start a fire." I could start one too," Clay said. "With your clothes. Before you get them off.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Eye, Fire, Clothes

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings”, p.375, Vintage Canada

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• Studies have shown that people who are physically active sleep better than those who are sedentary. The more energy you expend during the day, the sleepier you will feel at bedtime.

  Andrew Weil

  Sleep, People, Energy

  "Natural Insomnia Treatment" by Andrew Weil, www.drweil.com.

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• It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.

  Daniel Handler

  Sleep, Interesting

  "The Grim Grotto". Book by Daniel Handler, September 21, 2004.

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• Give yourself permission to dream. Fuel your kids' dreams too. Once in a while, that might even mean letting them stay up past their bedtimes.

  Randy Pausch

  Dream, Mean, Kids

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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