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• She sleeps: her breathings are not heard In palace chambers far apart. The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd That lie upon her charmed heart She sleeps: on either hand upswells The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest: She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells A perfect form in perfect rest.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Lying, Heart

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• Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.

  J. B. Priestley

  Past, People, Bovine

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• My first memory is of the brightness of light ... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground ... very large white pillows.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Quilts, Memories, White

  Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Viking Pr

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• I used to sleep with the phone right by my pillow but I'm getting better. Now it sits on the table a few feet away.

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  Sleep, Phones, Feet

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• He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Nature, Brother, Stars

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• It's my first love what I dreaming of when I go to bed, when I lay my head upon my pillow.

  Nikka Costa

  Dream, First Love, Firsts

  Song: First Love

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• If you want to observe anger in its entirety, you will have to observe it alone, in the privacy of your room. Then alone can you see it in its fullness, for then there are no limitations. This is why I advise the pillow meditation to certain people, so that they can observe their anger fully.

  Rajneesh

  Anger, People, Meditation

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• My first epiphany that this might work came on my first day, when I went into biofeedback. They hooked me up to computers through electrodes, put me in a comfortable lounge chair, put an eye pillow over my face, slipped speakers onto my head and played an audio guided visualization.

  Brad Willis

  Eye, Audio, Might

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails tossed behind the headboard, or a dark shape dissolving in soap. As a net is no more than holes tied together, they were bonded by what was no longer there." (ARC p. 63)

  Anthony Marra

  Dark, Hair, Together

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• Sometimes,' he whispered at last, 'sometimes, I dream I am singing, and I wake from it with my throat aching.' He couldn't see her face, or the tears that prickled at the corners of her eyes. 'What do you sing?' she whispered back. She heard the shush of the linen pillow as he shook his head. 'No song I've ever heard, or know,' he said softly. 'But I know I'm singing it for you.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Dream, Song, Eye

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1114, Delacorte Press

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• I knew I would be in the story somewhere," Eugenides interjected. "Oh no," said Phresine, "This was a humble servant." "Ouch." "Though very courageous." "Not me," whispered Eugenides to his pillow.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Humble, Would Be, Stories

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• In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Midnight, Youth

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 4, l. [26]

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• Ahh! Lady Pillows. So much fluffier than mine.” He took a giant whiff. “Why does everything girlie smell so delightful?” “Because we acknowledge the importance of basic hygiene. And periodically clean our bathrooms.” “Brilliant. I should write that down. After all, it takes a village.

  Kathy Reichs

  Writing, Hygiene, It Takes A Village

  Kathy Reichs (2011). “Seizure: A Virals Novel”, p.53, Penguin

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• Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morning’s dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Morning, Father, Book

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1998). “Aurora Leigh”, p.103, OUP Oxford

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• But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.

  Thomas Harris

  Sleep, Silence, Lambs

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• With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Water, Joy

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• We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, Drinking, Food

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• Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! - Abigail

  Arthur Miller

  Night, Parent, Crucible

  Arthur Miller (1957). “Arthur Miller's collected plays: with an introduction”, Viking Pr

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• Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.

  Lionel Shriver

  Morning, Tree, Curls

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.36, Counterpoint Press

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• Hey, people who travel with their bed pillow. You look insane.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Twitter post from Dec 11, 2009

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• The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow beside my face and to see your eyes open in the morning when I lie next to you—just watching you, waiting for you to wake up.

  John Irving

  Morning, Lying, Eye

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• Holly smiled weakly. Gerry would know exactly how she was feeling, he would know exactly what to say and he would know exactly what to do. He would give her one of his famous hugs and all her problems would melt away. She grabbed a pillow from her bed and hugged it tight. She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone. And the depressing thing was that she couldn't imagine ever embracing anyone the same way again.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Depressing, Giving, Hollies

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• I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.

  Sylvia Plath

  Night, Darkness, Looks

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.61, Hamilton Books

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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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• Tessa was laying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was bent over the pages, with a look of tenderness in her eyes, a tenderness mirrored in the softness of Will's voice as he read.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Hair, Voice

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1397, Simon and Schuster

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