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Quotes About Blankets

For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blankets between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal.
~ Herman Melville
We get on well and it won't be too much trouble spending so much time with him. He has a strange way of sleeping as he likes to kick off all the blankets and just have them up by his chest.
~ Robbie Keane
She lay all too aware of how frost stiffened her hair, furred her blankets.
~ Nancy Springer
How terrifying empty beds were. The neatness of the sheets and blankets was like the neatness of a mowed and trimmed graveyard.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
When Mary Lee awoke in the morning, she was in a vanilla-plain room, under crispy sheets, with white waffled blankets. Next to her bed was its identical twin. White and waffled. Waiting.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
We looked at the fire. "This is one hell of a date," I said. "Trapped by a horde of vampires in the middle of a snow-covered field, huddling around a tiny fire on thin blankets," Curran said. "Drink it in, baby. All this luxury just for you." "At least it's not raining." We both looked up just in case a freak downpour decided to drench us, but the night sky was clear. Nothing but stars and desperation.
~ Ilona Andrews
Mouth guard. And I think we'll start you in goal." Goal sounded like a special job. I didn't want a special job, unless that special job involved sitting on the side under a pile of blankets.
~ Maureen Johnson
it's colder than hell (yes) but the blankets are thin, and the pulled-down shades are as full of holes as love is.
~ Charles Bukowski
Lin reflected how much power mere money had. Lying in the purse it was just coins. Let loose from confinement, it was blankets against the cold, and candied chestnuts. It was an old lady clad in a new dress with hibiscus flowers on it.
~ Kerry Greenwood
The mist starts to form as we stand close to one another. It is a distant fog that rises from the horizon, and I find that I grow fearful as it approaches. It slowly creeps in, enveloping the world around us, fencing us in as if to prevent escape. Like a rolling cloud, it blankets everything, closing, until there is nothing left but the two of us.
~ Nicholas Sparks
She'd read a great deal about the blankets and knew the weight was supposed to help release serotonin by putting pressure on the sensory nerves in her muscles, joints and tendons, for a calming effect.
~ Christine Feehan
She was sitting up. She lifted and pulled at her blankets, but it was gone. The hippopotamus of wisdom was nowhere in sight.
~ Christopher Bram
I would like to make arrangements with you--to take her as my wife. Not right away, of course. When she grows old enough." The young warrior straightened his shoulders. "I will pay a fine bride price, fifty horses and ten blankets." Hunter smothered a grin. After a year of raiding, Swift Antelope had only ten horses. How much horse stealing did he plan to do?
~ Catherine Anderson
I don't have one favourite spot - I love writing anywhere that I feel inspired. I have to admit that I do love getting cosy in bed or under blankets on the sofa and writing from there.
~ Ella Woodward
Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.
~ Colson Whitehead
drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Christmas.
~ James Joyce
And sleep that night on the cold plains of a foreign land, forty-six men wrapped in their blankets under the selfsame stars, the prairie wolves so like in their yammering, yet all about so changed and strange.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I was supposed to be working on 'The Weekenders,' but I was blocked. I got this crazy idea that I would make Christmas stockings out of blankets.
~ Mary Kay Andrews
Then he struck his Lucifer upon his shoes and the dreadful looking hole were thus illuminated it were airless with the sour evidence of mice who have found food and blankets and think themselves in a position to begin a family
~ Peter Carey
Rwanda had presented the world with the most unambiguous case of genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews, and the world sent blankets, beans, and bandages to camps controlled by the killers, apparently hoping that everybody would behave nicely in the future.
~ Philip Gourevitch
The women of the Woodland tribes wore dresses made of soft deerskin. When Army and trade blankets were introduced in the Indian territory, the women started to use them for their dresses.
~ Unknown
you do for shock? Hot liquids, blankets. Brandy.
~ Diana Gabaldon
the room. It was early January, and despite the furnace's best efforts, the only truly warm place at night was bed, under heavy blankets. I smiled at him, and rose from my chair, dropping the heavy wool
~ Diana Gabaldon
to the door. Blankets, supplies, hardtack.
~ Jodi Thomas