I Quotes
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“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“If she did see, I hoped she' be amazed. Amazed and thankful, because without even asking, she'd received a genuine autograph from a genuine girl from Atlanta. Not just any girl, but a girl who was, frankly, a pretty big deal. A girl who was me.”
Source: Ten
“If she didn't know better, Mahit could think he was an automation. Even an artificial intelligence had more immediately apparent volition.”
Source: A Memory Called Empire
“If she died today, she died making her brother proud.
But she didn’t want to die.”
Source: Elysian
“If she do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks
As though she bid me stay by her a week.
If she deny to wed, I'll crave the day
When I shall ask the banns, and when be married.”
Source: The Taming of the Shrew
“If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway.”
Source: Starter for Ten: A Novel
“If she does not respect you, she will replace you.”
“If she doesn’t believe me, then
the easiest thing is to go along with her.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“If she doesn’t know I’m a complete fake, and I don’t think I’ve given her any reason to suspect that I am, she nonetheless has a remarkably clear idea of how to perpetrate the fakery. Which may just be the essence of résumé writing.”
Source: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
“If she doesn't want to be friends with us, I certainly don't want to be friends with her. Hell, I didn't like the bitch anyway.”
Source: Born at Midnight
“If she doesn't want to change,
Let her be who she chooses to be.”
“If she doesn't want to go down on you, try improving the taste of your semen by eating watermelon, celery, her pussy.”
Source: Sex Criminals, Vol. 2: Two Worlds, One Cop
“If she doesn't really love you, then it's over. And if she does love you, then love will win out.”
“If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei”
“If she drank enough, she might just dare to get on the back of his bike and ride off with him. She wouldn't look back. She wouldn't want to look back. He would be enough for her. She could make a life with him, she knew she could.”
Source: Vendetta Road
“If she drinks beer, she's a keeper.”
“If she ever again heard the sound of water splashing, she would turn and walk the other way. Ogling a naked man? How could I have been so daft?”
Source: Return of the Highland Laird
“If she ever had an impulse to tell Carol, the words dissolved before she began, in fear and in her usual mistrust of her own reactions, the anxiety that her reactions were like no one else's, and that therefore not even Carol could understand them.”
Source: The Price of Salt
“If she expected me to apologize she was going to be sorely disappointed.
I’d never be sorry for kissing her.”
Source: Hunter's Moon
“If she fell, she’d die of humiliation.”
Source: Throne of Glass
“If she gets the jitters now, then she isn't the great champion that she is.”
“If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.”
Source: Les Misérables
“If she had a flaw, it was that she was the Best, and she knew she was the Best. Some called it arrogance. She called it competence untainted by performative humility.”
Source: The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy
“If she had answered him honestly she would have said this: To go back to the beginning. She would tell her thirteen-year-old-self not to visit the woman. To her twenty-five-year-old self: Find Simon, forgive him. She would tell herself to take care of Klara, to sign up for JDate, to stop the nurse before she took the baby out of her arms. She'd tell herself she would die, she would die, they all would. She would tell herself to pay attention to the smell of Klara's hair, the feel of Daniel's arms as he reached down to hug her, Simon's stubby thumbs- my God, their hands, all of them, Klara's hummingbird-quick, Daniel's slender and restless. She'd tell herself that what she really wanted was not to live forever, but to stop worrying.”
“If she had any fucks to give about what we thought of her, she hoarded them jealously.”
Source: The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza
“If she had been a normal female, she would have swooned. But she was not normal, never had been.
“Good grief, you are impossibly handsome,” she said breathlessly. “I vow, I have never experienced the like. For an instant, my brain stopped altogether. I must say, my lord, you do clean up well. But next time, I wish you would call out a warning before you come into view, and give me a chance to brace myself for the onslaught.”
Something dark flickered in his eyes. Then a corner of his hard mouth quirked up. “Miss Adams, you have an interesting — a unique — way with a compliment.”
The trace of a smile disoriented her further. “It is a unique experience,” she said. “I never knew my brain to shut off before, not while I was full awake. I wonder if the phenomenon has been scientifically documented and what physiological explanation has been proposed.”
Source: The Mad Earl's Bride
“If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that she had turned imperceptibly into one of those women who have become old without ever having been middle aged: a little withered, a little acid, hard as nails, sentimentally kindhearted, and addicted to religion or small dogs.”
Source: The Grass is Singing
“If she had cried and sobbed and seemed frightened, Miss Minchin might almost have had more patience with her. She was a woman who liked to domineer and feel her power, and as she looked at Sara's pale little steadfast face and heard her proud little voice, she felt quite as if her mind was being set at naught.”
Source: A Little Princess
“If she had even once rejected Grandma Bev's insistence that she put on a happy face and make the best of things, if she had just told her mother how hurt and abandoned she'd felt, maybe they wouldn't have had to endure over two decades of distance and resentment. Maybe she would have had her mother.
Grandma Bev meant well, no doubt. She was trying to give Melody the resilience she'd needed to deal with all the changes in her young life, but it had only taught her to escape into fiction- both the kind in books and that of her own making. And instead of growing deeper in a true faith, one that was tested in tears and anguished prayers, she stuffed down her pain and retreated to superstition and magical thinking. She'd looked at God's providence like she'd looked at fairy tales- blindly and without any real belief. She'd gone from man to man, trying to buy their love at too high a price, all because she wouldn't admit how much she needed that love. How much it hurt that it always seemed to be out of reach. And because she wouldn't admit any of it, she just went on haplessly repeating her mistakes instead of turning to the One who loved her no matter what.”
Source: Brunch at Bittersweet Café
“If she had had the money, she would have put herself through enough plastic surgery to look respectable again. She didn't understand women, like Betsy, who had the money and didn't want to. For the same reason, she would never live in one of the outer boroughs or in the suburbs, no matter how much more space she could get for how much less money. It said something about you that you could not stay in Manhattan, that you valued a few extra square feet over the chance to be close to art, literature and history. The six tall tumblers in her kitchen cabinet had come from Steuben Glass and cost $345 for the set. The green silk dress she was wearing had come from Brooks Brothers and cost $225 off the rack.”
Source: Somebody Else's Music
“If she had him, then no matter their fate, she'd have enough.”
Source: To Tame a Cowboy
“If she had hurt me, I could have forgiven her without even having to think about it; but I couldn't forgive her for being hurt.”
Source: In the Woods
“If she had learned anything in the past weeks it was that there was enough to be ashamed of in the course of a messy human life without being ashamed of loving someone.”
Source: Behind Closed Doors
“If she had listened to her father, if she had listened to the cousin's husband, she would never have married Note and the years of unhappiness would never have occurred. But they did, because she was headstrong, as everyone is at the age of twenty, and when we simply cannot see, however much we may think we can . The world is full of twenty-year-olds, she thought, all of them blind.”
Source: The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 10 Books Set
“If she had looked into his eyes at that very moment she would have seen the inferno that she had thrown him into.”
Source: Soccer Sweetheart
“If she had loved him, he would have opened windows, allowed all of that precious light of hers in she wanted! If she could tolerate him, he would have donated to every stinking animal shelter in her name, quit his drinking habits completely, and played music for her anytime she wanted! He would have gone out, faced the cruel public, and embraced their scorn just to be close to her, continued to hide in the shadows of her life until she needed him…
If she had loved him, he would have done anything.”
Source: Natural Selection
“if she had not been a gypsy, and if he had not been a priest”
“If she had not been alone, she would never have seen the panther or felt the hope it spread into the world like rings around the splash of a rock thrown into a still lake.”
“If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.”
Source: The Mayor of Casterbridge
“if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!”
“If she had to choose between saving me and a copperhead, she’d choose the copperhead.”
Source: Shattered Resistance
“If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. We let human beings caress us because it is pleasant enough and calms them - but not her. The price is more than a cat can pay.”
Source: The Last Unicorn
“If she hadn’t known better, she’d have sworn Neil was a stolid, meditative introvert, keeping the bulk of his thoughts and feelings to himself. But no, Neil voiced his thoughts freely enough. There just weren’t all that many of them.”
Source: Dreck
“If she hadn't known that Mallow Island had been famous for its marshmallow candy over a century ago, Trade Street would have told her right away. It was busy and mildly surreal. The sidewalks were crowded with tourists taking pictures of old, narrow buildings painted in faded pastel colors. Nearly every restaurant and bakery had a chalkboard sign with a marshmallow item on its menu---marshmallow popcorn, chocolate milk served in toasted marshmallow cups, sweet potato fries with marshmallow dipping sauce.”
Source: Other Birds: A Novel
“If she has six good points and you have one semigood little point, place all of the emphasis on your one semigood little point.”
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl―A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
“If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals... all equal... the strong protecting the weak... Instead- She did not know why- they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.”
Source: Animal Farm
“If she Hillary Clinton win just two of the three big battleground states - North Carolina, Florida and Virginia - she will have shut off Trump's path to 270 electoral votes, even if he wins the other toss-up states.”
“If she is a succubus, then seduce me. If she is my devil, then I will gladly burn.”
Source: Crossed
“If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself.”
“If she is agile—if she welcomes and responds to questions that may uncover what is in the decisionmakers’ minds, while remaining alert to opportunities to use a question as a springboard to advance a key point.”
Source: My Own Words