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Quotes About Pea

Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these things: powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these things: powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Perfidy. Pea. Perfidy. Pea. These were the words that pinwheeled through Despereaux's mind as his body descended into the darkness. DESPEREAUX
~ Kate DiCamillo
The Princess and the Pea?" Gabrielle suggested. "Not enough time," Kat said "Where's Waldo?" Gabrielle went on. "No." Hamish recoiled. "I am still not allowed back in Morocco.
~ Ally Carter
Pea had just sense enough to fear Comanches—that didn't require an abundance of sense. Mexican bandits did not impress him.
~ Larry McMurtry
My first-ever role was the king in 'The Princess and the Pea.'
~ Jane Lynch
There was, she noticed, a fragment of frozen pea caught in the setting of her engagement ring.
~ Robert Galbraith
What's your problem, Sam?" she asked in a bored voice. If they didn't deal with his first, he would keep interrupting. "A pea in my nose," he said, sounding frightened. "You put a pea in your nose? Sam! Why on earth did you do that?
~ Lois Lowry
In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.
~ Cary Fowler
But I don't understand – wouldn't a mattress squash a pea? Then it would be flat and no one would fell it." Liam chuckled and said in a loud whisper, "I doubt mother thought of that. She doesn't have much of an imagination.
~ E.D. Baker
The Princess and the Pea?" Gabrielle suggested. "Not enough time," Kat said "Where's Waldo?" Gabrielle went on. "No." Hamish recoiled. "I am still not allowed back in Morocco.
~ Ally Carter
Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these things: powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Dizzy, chilly, and beat, Raven collapsed on her bed. She rolled over, sensing a pea under the mattress. Typical Orientation Week prank. She dug around, found the pea, and tossed it across the room.
~ Shannon Hale
Cacao is rich in happy phenethylamine chemicals called PEA. These compounds have been associated with feeling good and falling in love.
~ David Wolfe
and the pea was put in the museum, where it can still be seen, if no one has stolen it.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
PEASE PORRIDGE in the pot, nine days old" fairly well summarizes the technique of stew preparation in Shakespeare's day. A thick soup would have been left cooking for days at a time, with new vegetables, stock, and bits of leftover meat continually added. This Italian version contains rich duck meat, a delicious and unusual addition to pea soup.
~ Francine Segan
When I was a kid, I was pretty obsessed with 'The Princess and the Pea.' I'm still not sure why. Something about that image of twenty featherbeds and twenty mattresses? It's not a story with a lot of psychological resonance so apparently kid me just wanted a magical trip to Ikea.
~ Leigh Bardugo
Whether I'm unduly sensitive to this pain because I'm a princess—could the whole world be the pea under my mattress?—I don't know, but because I'm a princess, I might be able to do something to help lessen humanity's pain.
~ Tom Robbins
Sweet pea?'" Alec said. "I was just trying it out." Alec shook his head. "No." Magnus shrugged. "I'll keep at it.
~ Cassandra Clare
I trust you are enjoying your stay in our castle?" I asked at last. "Would that I were, Your Highness. But I am afraid my sleep last night was quite troubled. This morning I identified the source of my bruises" – here he reached into a pocket of his waistcoat – "as a pea that had been tucked beneath my mattress.
~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock
We mourn for thee when blind, blank night The chamber fills; We pine for thee when morn's first light Reddens the hills; The sun, the moon, the stars, the sea, All, to the wall flower and wild pea, Are changed — we saw the world through thee...
~ D. M. Moir, "Casa Wappy"
Lad, the English middle classes have to chew every mouthful thirty times because their guts are so narrow, a bit as big as a pea would give them a stoppage.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Infatuation is the fun part of falling in love. Infatuation triggers a chemical in the brain called PEA, your heart races, and you get breathless and dizzy, you tremble, and you can't think. It's what most people think of when they think of falling in love, and everybody goes through it.
~ Jennifer Crusie
Mother said that no parent in their right mind would display a portrait like that. Esme was not at all contrite. The chair was so uncomfortable, she said, there were two springs digging into my leg. She was funny like that, always so ridiculously oversensitive. She was like that princess in the story about the pea and all the mattresses. Is there a pea, I would say to her when she thrashed about in the bed at night, trying to get comfortable, and she would say, whole pods of them
~ Maggie O'Farrell