Couches Quotes - Page 10

• Harpernus Stoyan, if you can't behave yourself and go and turn all Roman hands and Russian Fingers under that comforter, you're going to have to sit on the couch," Stephanie snapped, sounding for all the world like a stern schoolteacher.

  Lynsay Sands

  Hands, World, Fingers

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• As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant by nature; she wanted to travel, go to the theater, go to museums. What he wanted was to lie on the couch with the Times over his face, so that death, when it came, wouldn't seem a significant change.

  Louise Glück

  Mother, Lying, Father

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• The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Lying, Book, Reading

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• She looks up at me with those vulnerable eyes. “What if it means something?” She asks. “What if it does?” “Promise me it won’t mean anything.” I lean my head back on the couch. “It won’t mean anythin’.” Aren’t I supposed to be the guy in this scenario, laying down the no-commitment rules? “And no tongue,” she adds. “Mi vida, if I kiss you, I guarantee there’s gonna be tongue.

  Simone Elkeles

  Mean, Commitment, Eye

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• Whitney smacked Coop's snout while simultaneously pressing herself deeper into the couch. Coop fixed her with an unblinking ice-blue stare, gray-brown fur bristling along his spine. "Tory!" Whitney squealed. "He's going to attack!" "Maybe." I walked into the kitchen and snagged a Diet Coke from the fridge. "Try to protect your throat.

  Kathy Reichs

  Ice, Blue, Kitchen

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• Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the ever finish. I suppose I thought if my grandmother kept up her interests, she wouldn't die; she'd have to stay around to finish the books she was so fond of. "I've got to get to the bottom of this one," she'd say, as if a book were no different from a pond or a lake. I thought she'd go on reading forever but it didn't work out that way.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Reading, Grandmother

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• I don't blame you. But if there's anything else you have to tell me, now would be the time." He pressed forward, urging me to stretch on the couch. Coming over me, he whispered, "I'm in love with you." With everything going wrong, that was the one thing that was totally right. It was enough.

  Sylvia Day

  Love You, Would Be, Blame

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• We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.

  Dick Black

  Nature, Risk, Losing

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• Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

  John Milton

  Life, Queens, Twilight

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 598

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• Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.

  Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne

  Pain, Alcohol, Mind

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• I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much dope, I was sitting on the couch, and just turning into a doughnut, and I really got irritated with myself.

  Brad Pitt

  Marijuana, Dope, Smoking

  "Brad Pitt spent decade smoking marijuana: Which '90s star came out on top?", www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2012.

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• I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn’t feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasn’t like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would be happy without them.

  Jim Butcher

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• This is a woman you've known less than twelve hours. It took you a year to pick out a couch, but you're seriously—" “Yes,” Roger said. “She's the one.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Years, Roger, Twelve

  Jennifer Crusie (2006). “Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me”, p.359, Macmillan

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• What can we do?" Mom asked again. I shrugged. But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until I just kind of crawled across the couch into her lap and my dad came over and held my legs really tight and I wrapped my arms all the way around my mom's middle and they held on to me for hours while the tide rolled in.

  John Green

  Mom, Dad, Lap

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.267, Penguin

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• I don't like futons. They can't commit. I'm a bed! I'm a couch! I'm a bed! I'm a couch!

  Jennifer Weiner

  Bed, Futons, Commit

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Little Earthquakes”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Once upon a time I would’ve leaped at the rare opportunity of curling up with Mom on the couch. But now it sort of felt like too little too late. I had someone else waiting for me.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mom, Opportunity, Waiting

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.156, Scholastic Inc.

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• I don't know about you, but I have to sleep. I had a long night and I'm exhausted." She was rather tired, too. But as she slid her gaze to the fake leather sofa, she realized it would never fit both of them. Hunter grinned at her. "You take the couch, I'll sleep on the floor." "Can you do that?" "I've slept in worse places." "Yeah, but don't you need a coffin?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Tired, Sleep, Night

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Night Pleasures”, p.52, Macmillan

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• You see, Greg, my mother is going through a feline phase. Blinky is a Persian,' Hale said simply, as if that should explain everything. 'Binky has a nasty habit of shedding all over the living room furniture, you see.' Gregory Wainwright nodded as if he understood perfectly. 'And so we had to get new living room furniture, which, unfortunately, does not go with the Monet.' Kat stood there for a moment, staring into that small window of the world where someone would tire of a Monet simply because it clashed with the couch.

  Ally Carter

  Mother, Doe, World

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• I look at her wish we could go inside and make love on the couch. Dive inside each other. Take each other. Make each other. Nothing happens, though.

  Markus Zusak

  Making Love, Wish, Looks

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.35, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, it’s harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn’t stop you wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse

  Holly Black

  Hurt, Dirty, Kissing

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Jack jumped off the couch, pulling his shirt back on. "Next time,if you'd like, I'll just come without one," he said,grinning at me.

  Kiersten White

  Next, Shirts, Grinning

  Kiersten White (2012). “Supernaturally (Paranormalcy, Book 2)”, p.33, HarperCollins UK

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• We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down onto the couch and sneaked a kiss onto my cheek. “Augustus!” I said. “Friendly,” he said. He pushed himself up again and really stood this time, then took two steps over to my mom and said, “Always a pleasure to see you,” and my mom opened her arms to hug him, whereupon Augustus leaned in and kissed my mom on the cheek. He turned back to me. “See?” he asked.

  John Green

  Mom, Kissing, Two

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.76, Penguin

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• I don’t bite Marcus. You can come sit on the comfy old couch with me. That chair is incredibly uncomfortable.” Just the opening I needed. I jumped up and sat down on the end of the couch and stretched my legs out in front of me. “You don’t have to tell me twice. I was just being polite.” Will ow chuckled and brought a blanket over to the sofa with her.

  Abbi Glines

  Legs, Just Being, Chairs

  Abbi Glines (2012). “Because of Low”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The army slew a thousand and showed little pity The king ordered fealty from the conquered city The prince charmed its people with words wise and witty And the queen sat on a couch, looking very pretty

  Shannon Hale

  Wise, Witty, Kings

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• Yay!” Tyson went around the couches and gave everyone a big hug—even Octavian, who didn't look thrilled about it.

  Rick Riordan

  Hug, Yay, Looks

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