J. M. Roberts Quotes

I keep thinking I'm going to wake up and it will all be a really bad, long dream. I want to wrap my arms around the entire region and blink my eyes like 'I Dream of Jeannie' and make it all like it was before.

J. M. Roberts

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• Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

  

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• I keep thinking I'm going to wake up and it will all be a really bad, long dream. I want to wrap my arms around the entire region and blink my eyes like 'I Dream of Jeannie' and make it all like it was before.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Eyes
  • Region
  • Blink