Duvet Days Quotes & Sayings

I'm a hero wid coward's legs, I'm a hero from the waist up. — Spike Milligan

With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself. — Amedeo Modigliani

I guess I don't really believe in retirement. I believe in shorter days and maybe in weekends! — Alice Waters

Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Today is one of the days when Ma is Gone.
She won't wake up properly. She's here but not really. She stays in Bed with the pillows on her head.
Silly Penis is standing up, I squish him down.
I eat my hundred cereal and I stand on my chair to wash the bowl and Meltedy Spoon. It's very quiet when I switch off the water. I wonder did Old Nick come in the night. I don't think he did because the trash bag is still by Door, but maybe he did only he didn't take the trash? Maybe Ma's not just Gone. Maybe he squished her neck even harder and now she's -
I go up really close and listen till I hear breath. I'm just one inch away, my hair touches Ma's nose and she puts her hand up over her face so I step back.
I don't have a bath on my own, I just get dressed.
There's hours and hours, hundreds of them.
Ma gets up to pee but not talking, with her face all blank. I already put a glass of water beside Bed but she just gets back under Duvet. — Emma Donoghue

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first. — Blaise Pascal

If you let the loss prevent the beauty, all is lost. — Esther Sharp

Why do people only understand what they want to ...
... instead of what they could or should understand? — Beatrice James

To be a great achiever you must have a desire, a will to live and determination to push through no matter what. — Euginia Herlihy

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth. — Lady Gregory

In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love. — Erica Jong

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger. — Steven Seagal

lol I can sleep, i've never had a problem with it. I just never got much. These days if i'm not awake doing something, i'll stay in bed from night til night and have no problems with hiding under the duvet. That's what worries me. It comes to the point sometimes that I don't know what i worry more about when going to sleep - my dreams? my dreams that are nightmares, or the real fact that it doesn't matter if my eyes are closed or open, i'm still living the same thing. Pretty fecking depressing if you ask me lol So I tend to stay awake the longest I can so that when I fall asleep i'm too tired to say or do much that I just sleep and don't think. — Ellie Williams

There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where another man is severe and unkind. — William, Saroyan

Unrequited love made right is the ultimate, isn't it? — Bella Andre

When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you're preparing your whole company to be reward challenged. — Morgan Spurlock

Our actions as believers should be extensive and comprehensive — Sunday Adelaja