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1 " After Carol had left, as Symons threw away a pile of used tissues and rearranged the cushions on the couch, he remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him [as a career counselor] was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited--long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms--what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true 'calling. "
― Alain de Botton , The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
2 " I love the stillness of a room, after a party. The chairs are moved, the cushions disarranged, everything is there to show that people enjoyed themselves; and one comes back to the empty room happy that it's over, happy to relax and say, 'Now we are alone again. "
― Daphne du Maurier
3 " Anyone who said money didn't matter had never had to count the coins that fell between the cushions of the couch. "
― Nora Roberts , Key of Knowledge (Key Trilogy, #2)
4 " Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove. "
― Sara Sheridan , British Bulldog (Mirabelle Bevan Mystery, #4)
