B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?”
Source: King Richard III
“But Shane-O, Shane-O, you've got it all wrong, son. You see, when I pass, I'm not gonna leave my money to you! When I pass, I'm gonna leave all of my money to my beautiful daughter Stephanie... and, and whoever that guy is that knocked her up.”
“But she also said that by staying strong, you can become the light for those who need you most.”
Source: Batman, Volume 6: Graveyard Shift
“But she and Winston hadn’t yet developed that inner code between couples for when it was time for the other party to shut up”
Source: Family Trust
“But she believed there was a thin line between accepting one's fears and giving in to them altogether.”
Source: Highly Illogical Behavior
“But she could feel that behind his words there was something nice and rather odd — kind people are often odd, she had explained to Saint-Denis, and she had
added, rather mysteriously: it can’t be otherwise.”
Source: The Roots of Heaven
“But she couldn't formulate the sentence in Chinese. Her knowledge of the language only extended to the daily necessities and small affections.”
“But she couldn't start this, because then it would end. Stories like this always ended. She couldn't take this pleasure, because she would spend the rest of her life missing it, hurting from it.”
“But she couldn’t stop. The smell of her burning house still filled her nostrils even as the chilly breeze swept by her enticingly.
The screams that rang out were deafening; flames shot up everywhere. The screams were prolonged and were she, a little child of ten, not so scared, they would have been very irritating for they were constant; they were horror filled, they spelt death and terror.”
Source: Life Makes A Novel...A Novel
“But she couldn't dismiss easily his light touch with her. No pushing or pressing, none of that herding and corralling bullshit, unlike any of her old boyfriends. And maybe who you fell for and who you eventually loved wasn't rational, no matter how hard you tried to list pros and cons and sum the results. You couldn't think your way through it, not all the way. Maybe just the scent of somebody carried more weight than everything else put together.”
Source: Nightwoods: A Novel
“But she'd been raised to believe in wishes and fairytales and things that seemed impossible.”
Source: Once Upon a Broken Heart
“But she'd been wrong about Vig. He wasn't broken. He wasn't destroyed by a cruel society.
He was just an introvert with an aversion to shaving.
And he liked her.
Liked her, liked her.”
Source: The Unleashing
“But she did love him. I believe it. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.”
Source: Running with Scissors: A Memoir
“But she did not have a name, because she was not what she appeared to be; not a Chelgrian female; not a Chelgrian, not even a biological creature at all. I am a Culture terror weapon, she thought; designed to horrify, warn and instruct at the highest level. A name would have been a lie.”
Source: Look To Windward
“But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second car. And exactly at the moment when the midpoint between the wheels drew level with her, she threw away the red bag, and drawing her head back into her shoulders, fell on her hands under the car, and with a light movement, as though she would rise immediately, dropped on her knees. And at the instant she was terror-stricken at what she was doing. 'Where am I? What am I doing? What for?' She tried to get up, to throw herself back; but something huge and merciless struck her on the head and dragged her down on her back.”
“But she didn't fall. Someone was there, reaching an arm around her waist to steady her. She looked up expecting to see Nic, but it was Magnus.
His dark brows were drawn tightly together. "Problem, princess?”
Source: Rebel Spring
“But she didn't want that. She wanted something more.”
Source: The Dream Thieves
“But she didn't want to recall things. She wanted to live things — or as a compromise, relive rather than reminisce.”
Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“But she does it anyway, and I sit beside her...because strength is a choice.”
Source: A Time to Speak
“But she feared time itself... the dwindling of life; how year by year her share was sliced; how, little the margin that remained was capable any longer of stretching, of absorbing, as in the youthful years, the colours, salts, tones of existence, so that she filled the room she entered, and felt often as she stood hesitating one moment on the threshold of her drawing-room, an exquisite suspense, such as might stay a diver before plunging while the sea darkens and brightens beneath him, and the waves which threaten to break, but only gently split their surface, roll and conceal and encrust as they just turn over the weeds with pearl.”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway
“But she felt that she had to see him or she would die.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“But she had a choice. She could suffer the pain, or she could offer it, give it to the High One to transform it into something better.”
Source: Maker
“But she had dreamed of being his for too long. He had quite ruined her for a marriage of convenience. She wanted everything from him: his mind, his body, his name and, most of all, his heart.”
“But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it when she saw it- and everything would change.”
“But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.”
Source: LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY - The Woman Behind The Books: Autobiography & Private Letters (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy & The Blue Castle): The Alpine Path (Memoirs), Complete Chronicles of Avonlea, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Jane of Lantern Hill, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon and more
“But she had never, ever heard Rodrigo speak of another man the way he'd talked about Ammar ibn Khairan during the long, waiting winter just past. The way the man sat a horse, handled a blade, a bow, devised strategies, jested, spoke of history, geography, the properties of good wine. Even the way he wrote poetry.
"Are you in love with this man?" she'd asked her husband once in Fezana that winter - more than half jealous, if truth were told.
"I suppose I am, in a way," Rodrigo had replied after a moment. "Isn't it odd."
It wasn't, really, Miranda thought, on that hill by Silvenes.”
Source: The Lions of Al-Rassan
“But she had that laugh, and the sound of it was so beautiful that when you heard it, it was as if your eyes saw her through your ears and she was transformed.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
“But she had to know words. She had to know everything.”
Source: The Morning Gift
“But she had unbuckled us, it turned out, only to stall us, so that she and her sisters could die in peace”
Source: The Virgin Suicides
“But she hadn't been able to take root. She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. She'd remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she'd forgotten how to grow.”
Source: Uprooted
“But she hadn't chosen me. She was never going to. And it didn't matter how caring I was, or how much effort I put into my hair and makeup, or how much time I put in. It was me, as I was, that wasn't doing it for her. There wasn't anything I could do to change that. And that made me feel like there was something inherently not good enough about me.”
Source: Perfect on Paper
“But she has five years to find Him and marry him and then another five years to have a baby, maybe two if she likes the first one. She's not in a rush. Not yet. She'll just keep swinging left, keep looking nice when she goes out, keep accepting invitations to social events, keep positive, keep slim, keep herself together, keep going.”
Source: The Family Upstairs
“But she has found real love, and love can heal and save.”
“But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each other on the Cambridge Common, prefer their privacy.”
Source: The Namesake: A Novel
“But she has no one.”
Source: Daisy Jones & The Six
“But she has something more than just talent and grace...she possesses that rare, inner beauty...I'm sure of it!”
Source: La La Mermaid: Family-Friendly Underwater Cozy Fantasy for Young Adults and Kids
“But she hated Arachne," Violet said. "In the original myth. Right? Athena was jealous that a mortal could weave better than she could, so she hit Arachne on the head with a shuttle and turned her into a spider."
"First, Athena loved her. At least, that's how I'm writing it.”
Source: Ordinary Love
“But she—her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.”
Source: madame bovary
“But she herself had never felt that way about anyone, not as a teenager, not in art school, not since. It occurred to her that except for her brother, when they were children, she’d never seen
a man naked. More than that: she’d never touched anyone and felt that warmth, that electric tension at the nearness of someone else. The only thing that had given her that feeling had
been art—and then, of course, Pearl.”
Source: Little Fires Everywhere
“But she ignored it, leaning her brow against the cool glass of the window. She let the starlight gently brush her head, her face, her neck. Imagined it running its shimmering fingers down her cheek, as her mother had done for her and her alone.
My Nesta. Elain shall wed for love and beauty, but you, my cunning little queen... You shall wed for conquest.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“But she is a woman.”
“As am I, pastor. Has it ever occurred to you that women may be just as useful as men in this world? After all, women often have a sincere desire to help those who are suffering and in need. Men defend home and country, and women manage the home so that men have somewhere to return to.”
Source: The Clearing
“But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest
“But she is happy. Huddled by the fire
All recollections of the dim grey day
Dwindle to nothingness, and she forgets
That in the street outside the rain which falls
Muddies the pavement to a greasy brown.
That, in the morning she must start again
And search again for that which will not come.”
“But she just couldn’t stop checking her phone; she wanted
to stop, tried to stop, but the pull would not let her go. It was
a strange experience for her to be doing the obsessive phone-checking
thing. Vanessa talked about it, and she had heard stories
about it from other friends. One date with a guy and suddenly
the phone becomes like an appendage endowed with some super
power to predict your future.”
Source: Circle of Betrayal
“But she kept on hoping - really, stupidly hoping - that someone one day would understand what she meant. That one day she'd have a proper conversation with someone instead of just a series of audible misconnections.”
Source: Special
“But she knew herself. Her body longed to feel pain, to exact it, but her mind feared it too much to allow herself the freedom to. Besides, her knuckles were already blistering from the beating they’d been taking for the better part of an hour. Without the gloves she’d have shattered a hand by now.
Wouldn’t that be just like her. To fear pain so and yet stumble into it at every opportunity.”
Source: The Paragon
“But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing.”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
“But she knew, though very vaguely, that she was crying, because hope hurts terribly when it breaks through the resignation in which you have lived for days.”
Source: Planet of Exile / Mankind Under the Leash
“But she knew what he meant: that this had none of the hallmarks of random casual encounter'. There was no doubt in her mind that tonight was definitely the start of something.”
Source: Anything Could Happen