Bedclothes Quotes

As Linda drifted in and out of consciousness, her fellow comedian Mark Steel noticed Joan Collins on the television. "I was on a chat show with Joan Collins,” he told fellow comedian Andy Hamilton. "How old is she?” Hamilton asked. "I think she must be close to 75,” replied Steel. From beneath the pile of bedclothes a little voice piped up: "How much is that in human years?”. (Linda Smith)
Grey dawn was seeping into the sick room [around Christmas 1867, Munch was almost dying then and spitting blood when he was 13; but he recovered]. I lay in the middle of the bed with my hands outside the bedclothes, looking straight ahead. Now I was in a pact with God. I had promised to serve him if I survived, if he allowed me to escape the tuberculosis. Now I could never be as before. View quote
Edvard Munch
Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes. View quote
Emily Brontë
She pulled the bedclothes up as far as they would go and suppressed a perverse wish to have her old nurse come to chase away the darkness, perverse because she didn't know if she wanted the shadows to be empty or not. View quote
Megan Whalen Turner