Cushion Quotes

“I do believe we can do better, be better. But we can't hide behind fear. We can't tuck truth between the cushions of comfort. We have to deal with it, really confront it, so that our children can live with a lot less weight. We owe it to them.”
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

“What are you doing?” I asked Loretta.
“Stabbing a cushion,” she told me.”
― Joel N. Ross, The Lost Compass

“The armchairs, with their flat, sedentary cushions, were designed for society, but the bed was made for solitude. It had a straitened and measured narrowness, an austere frame made to contain the curves of a single body, to circumscribe it, carry it, give it a place, and when I slept at night, I possessed it entirely.”
― Amit Chaudhuri, Afternoon Raag

“It worried me, this covering of couches. What could be so frightfully dirty that fourteen layers of linens were needed to cover it? Sensing this could be a test, I shifted slightly to see if someone might have placed a pea somewhere under the cushion that I was supposed to feel with my behind. Nothing. I guess I'll never be a princess.”
― Gregory S. Williams, Fatal Indemnity