Susan Beth Pfeffer Quotes

Now, I was a fan of the simple pleasures in life: grilled cheese sandwiches without black flecks on the crust, jeans that didn't pinch the better parts of me, an inch of vodka, ten to twelve hours of sleep. - Cole St Clair, Forever.

All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once in a long while an extravagance.

Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say; it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.

I realised you owned me one night in this room. I was singing to you and you were sleeping. You made a little noise in your sleep like you were distressed and I panicked and ran to your side. You grabbed my arm in your sleep and pulled it up against your face and went back to sleep. I didn't want to ever move.

You can never totally hate someone who sang you to sleep like that, can you? Who calmed you down and eased your fears. You can feel angry and betrayed, but some part of you will always love them for being there on those scary nights, for giving you a place to run to where your nightmares couldn't follow, the one place where you could descend finally into slumber knowing, at least for the time being, that you were completely safe.

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.

There are 160,000 of our men and women in Iraq that wonder whether there is going to be a hand grenade or a missile lobbed into where they are sleeping at night. Those are people who make a real sacrifice.

So let us sleep outside tonight, Lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely.

The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.

I was feeling safe. Not the kind of safe where you know there are still bad things howling outside the door waiting to get in. No, it was the kind of safe where you sink down in your bed at the end of the day and know you can go to sleep and everything is going to be the same tomorrow.

Once you sleep on feathers you can't go back to sleeping on the floor.

Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

It is time to face real world, even if it is harder and painful. I'd rather fly and crash, than just snuggle and sleep.

It's tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5 am when you've been sleeping in silk pajamas

I sleep in the nude but I pull the sheets up.

The comforters head never akes.

Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six!

Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning Dearer than any of these by far Is to lie in bed in the morning

I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.

Outside are the storms and strangers: we — Oh, close, safe, warm sleep I and she, — I and she!

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.