Camilla Collett famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.

  • You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.

  • We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them.

  • For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

  • I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.

  • 10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?

  • The joke that you laid in the bed that was me.

  • I go to bed at 2 a.m. and get up at 7 a.m. - I've never been a sleeper. But I definitely get sick every month-and-a-half.

  • She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.

  • It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue."

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