her bedside. She shut her eyes tightly against the sight

“When you have a space in your heart that is unfilled close your eyes tightly and remember how once your heart soared..now fly”

— Bluenscottish

“Against Whatever It Is That's Encroaching" Best of all is to be idle, And especially on a Thursday, And to sip wine while studying…

— Charles Simic

“As a child I used to lie on the floor with my eyes tightly closed and hope that people would walk past without noticing…

— Jerzy Kosiński

“YOU SEE THEM SOMETIMES. They're just out of the corner of your eye, when you're not expecting them, and sometimes if you close your…

— Peter David

“And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind of world, one that she knew in…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's…

— John Ratzenberger

“Now more than ever, you have to be there for each other. I don’t want either of you staying up all night at the…

— Paul Kalanithi

Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture…

— William Osler

Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.

— James Purefoy

“If we know the books located at the bedside, we know much about the man.”

— Douglas L. Callister

Oh, may she deign to stand atmy bedside When I come to die; and may she call to me And draw me to her…

— Petrarch

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

— Barbara Pym

Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak in hushed…

— Jennifer Worth

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

— William S. Burroughs

You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things." Liesel watched…

— Markus Zusak