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Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.


J.M. Barrie

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ELI BROWN See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.
J.M. BARRIE Build a house?" exclaimed John.

"For the Wendy," said Curly.

"For Wendy?" John...
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OSCAR AULIQ-ICE All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travele...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY If you want breakfast in bed, you have to concider sleeping in the kitchen>
FOSTER "RAUL" MKHABELE This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat 'round the board guzzling in their greed; ...
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J.M. BARRIE Your best T-shirt should be like your bed; it just feels like you are home when you are in it.
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SARA SAMPAIO Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your min...
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EDWARD KITSIS If you want breakfast in bed, then start sleeping in the kitchen.
UNKNOWN Can I cut off your head?"
"Are you asking for my permission?
AMANDA HOCKING If this could be repeated every day for a year, I would never budge from where I stood.
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ELI BROWN Nobody sees when you are lying in your bed
and I want to crawl in with you
but I cry instead
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YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind.
JIM DAVIS That's the funny thing about havin' a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything...
GREG GARCIA I won't let my best friends do silly,stupid,annoying,funny things
-WITHOUT ME!!!!!!!!!!
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ALISHA EVERETT To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe th...
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JACK CANFIELD I never liked sleeping in the dark. I have, like, twinkle stars around my bed, so it's not so ba...
MILLIE BOBBY BROWN This is just what Wendy needed because we've seen glimpses of this. Maybe this is just what the doct...
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RICKY MARTIN You never saw Peter Sellers the actor trying to make you laugh. All he was doing was the character. ...
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JAYCE O'NEAL When your cat rubs the side of its face along your leg, it's affectionately marking you with its sce...
SUSAN MCDONOUGH A man is not for you when all he knows is to slam your back on the bed and ram into you like a wild ...
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HARLAND WILLIAMS I still think about you at night
you come back to me with the stars.
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RICK NOBLE When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
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MELVIN BURGESS Every minute spent on good sleep, it was well spent; unless you are sleeping outside under the stars...
RODOLFO PEON I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands
and wrote my will across the sky in sta...
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DELETE ACCOUNT EEYORE: I'm not saying there won't be an Accident now, mind you. They're funny things, Accidents. ...
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RADITYA DIKA I need you in front of me, saying my name, saying to me... "I choose the way you are
You, the wa...
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EVA LONGORIA I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
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J.M. RICHARDS You shouldn’t have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that,...
J.M. RICHARDS As much as I cared about him, I wasn’t a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, stro...
J.M. RICHARDS Being in love with your best friend is problematic.
J.M. RICHARDS You always question what's new. It's human nature. While everything else, you know, no matter how st...
J.M. DARHOWER Um, you don’t have to join me, but if you’re looking for a table, there are a couple good seats ...
J.M. RICHARDS Usually the things that kill us are the things we do every single day.
J.M. MCDERMOTT The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but see...
J.M. SYNGE As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made...
J.M. SYNGE In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
J.M. SYNGE The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.
J.M. COETZEE I am not the we of anyone
J.M. COETZEE Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of l...
J.M. COETZEE The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse.
—ALEXANDER S. ...
J.M. CARLISLE Alan shrugged. “I love the CBC, really, but being voted its president—” “Co-president,” Sp...
J.M. RICHARDS Lewis exasperated her, always talking about life before the Plague and how it would be if everything...
J.M. SULLIVAN With the buck before me suspended in immobility, there seems to be time for all things, time even to...
J.M. COETZEE Who are you?” he asked, in a bewildered tone. I cocked my head at him, totally baffled. “I told ...
J.M. RICHARDS I wouldn’t joke if you weren’t always patching me up,” Davin retorted. He looked at Chad again...
J.M. RICHARDS It’s so peaceful. I could go to sleep in here.” His eyes flickered to me once more, and for a di...
J.M. RICHARDS Den Staat kümmert nicht, ob der Bürger lebt oder stirbt. Wichtig für den Staat und sein Archiv is...
J.M. COETZEE Wie es im Zeitalter der Könige naiv gewesen wäre zu glauben, dass der erstgeborene Königssohn der...
J.M. COETZEE she’d rather sacrifice herself than him suffer a single moment because of her existence.
J.M. DARHOWER You fix what's broken, not what's lost. He's gone. You can't fix that. You can't bring him back. But...
J.M. DARHOWER The sun is setting, the sky is a tumult of oranges, reds and violets.
J.M. COETZEE I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as st...
J.M. COETZEE Do not think to swim below. The ocean is already pushing into ears, sinuses, temples, the softness o...
J.M. LEDGARD From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.
J.M. COETZEE When you're mortal, life is nothing more than a drawn-out game of Russian Roulette. Every moment is ...
J.M. DARHOWER He turned to leave when arms suddenly wrapped around him from behind, stalling him. Sighing, he clos...
J.M. DARHOWER He once envied the humans because they were given the Earth, but looking at her, he wondered if mayb...
J.M. DARHOWER I suddenly felt the way Cinderella might have felt if she hadn’t had that convenient midnight curf...
J.M. RICHARDS The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose.
J.M. CAMPOS I don’t want to go home yet.” He twisted at the waist and patted the seat behind him. “Take a ...
J.M. STEWART The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In anot...
J.M. COETZEE Adam delayed only a second longer before traversing into the uncertain future, crossing the hidden d...
J.M. NORTHUP He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and mo...
J.M. COETZEE Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of respo...
J.M. COETZEE I'm sorry, my child, I just find it hard to whip up an interest in the subject. It's admirable, what...
J.M. COETZEE Dia wrinkled her nose. “Gross. You need a decent girl, one that can straighten you out.”
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J.M. DARHOWER Die Herren der Information haben die Poesie aus dem Auge verloren, wo Worte eine Bedeutung haben kö...
J.M. COETZEE That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
JAMES BARRIE