T Quotes
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“That's how most things are," Gus replied sagely. "The theory is clean and polished, but the execution is usually an ugly, complicated mess.”
Source: The New Devil
“That's how music is for me. It's always been that way. Sound and color.”
“That’s how one of my stories that has received the most praise from critics and, especially, from readers came to be published. However, that experience did not prevent me from continuing to rip up manuscripts I didn’t think were publishable, but rather taught me that it’s necessary to tear them in such a way that they can never be pieced back together.”
Source: The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings
“That's how quickly you can win or lose. In an instant.”
Source: Fence #1
“That's how science works. You have to play the game. We need the money, they need the product”
Source: Still Standing
“That's how she explained people to me: they're always feeling something.”
Source: Orphans of Canland
“That’s how the past juggles with your sanity: it makes the piranhas look like puppies.”
Source: The Outsider’s Mind : A Collection of Short Stories and the Quotes They Inspired
“That's how the universe works: it gives you the one thing you said you'd never want.”
Source: Marriage for One
“That's how the world is arranged: they can take anyone's freedom from him, without a qualm. If we want to take back the freedom which is our birthright—they make us pay with our lives and the lives of all whom we meet on the way.
They can do anything, but we cannot. That's why they are stronger than we.”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII
“That’s how they keep you quiet. Forget the shape of your soul, and you start mistaking silence for peace.”
Source: The Heir of Ash and Thunder
“That's how transformation works in practice—not through grand plans but through small groups of committed people practicing new ways of being together.”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“That's how vile I am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish! I think I hate Ireland more than I hate the theatre, and that's saying something!”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“That’s how we are programmed”
Source: The Polymorph
“That’s how we make the world a little better. Partner with the best, look beyond ourselves, and know that, as with everything, what we sow is what we reap.”
Source: Never Give Up: My Life in the Wild
“That’s how we’ve ended up,” Ivan said with a bitter smile. “We work, as in the proverb: Enough trading, father — there’s no change left to give.
‘Why did they suddenly increase the grain procurement plan?’ Vasyl protested.
‘Everything seems the same — but it isn’t,’ Danylo explained. ‘The status of our land has changed, and so has the status of the collective farmers. What grew last year is now taxed differently. Even the poor peasants who joined the collective are no longer considered poor — and the taxes rise accordingly.’
‘Clever,’ Ivan muttered angrily. ‘They’ve laid out their accounting traps well.’
— Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book Two
Context note: In Soviet collective farms, taxes and grain quotas were often increased not because of real agricultural growth, but due to bureaucratic reclassification. Accounting became a tool of pressure that made normal farming impossible.”
Source: Камінь. Біографічний роман. Книга друга. Непрості дороги до пекла: Виживання в умовах насильства.
“That's how you avoid becoming a moth," he says. "Stop asking others what to believe. Figure it out for yourself.”
Source: The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
“That's how you keep someone tied to you, not set them free. You say no to a man and don't give him the peace of repayment.”
Source: Tre cavalli
“That's how you should be. Accept your burden and carry it, with joy.”
“That’s how you tell a merc is dead; he just stops collecting paychecks.”
Source: By the Sword
“That’s how you win at life. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can’t be done, there’s always a solution, even if it’s weird.”
Source: The Last Little Blue Envelope
“That's humanity. We will all lose the ones we love, either them or us. From birth we make our way in this world. The gift is the choice of who we spend it with.”
Source: The Wondrous Life and Loves of Nella Carter
“That's incredible...I don't know--okay, well, you know, nobody's probably voting for me. I mean, I'm not Richard. I haven't gone out of my way to be responsible or anything.”
Source: Bitter Blood
“That’s it!” Charlie said, pausing the audiobook. “I knew there was something in this book I needed to remember. Billy Pilgrim is saying that the most important thing he learned is that it only appears that we’re dead at the time of our death and that all moments—past, present, and future—have always existed. He says that it’s only an illusion ‘that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string.’ What he’s saying is that even though the moments in our lives pass, they still exist and always will.”
Charlie continued, “It reminds me of what Robert Lanza said in Biocentrism—that death is an illusion, and there are an infinite number of ‘now’ moments in a person’s life that are not arranged in a linear fashion. What if those ‘now’ moments are like the still frames of a stop-motion picture—they only appear to be moving because they’re played rapidly in sequence, but the individual frames are inanimate? Then, the individual frames—the ‘now’ moments in someone’s life— are like the individual beads on a string, separated only by the smallest unit of length, the Planck length. If you removed the string, the individual beads—all the ‘now’ moments in a person’s life—would float around the person like bubbles in the air but remain connected to that person through quantum entanglement.”
Chris listened intently.
“If that were the case,” Charlie said, “then one of our bubbles—one of our ‘now’ moments—would be us driving in this car right now, and another bubble would be when you, Isaac, and I were hiking to the teahouse in Canada, and still another bubble would be the moment Isaac died. If you remember, Robert Lanza said that our bodies die at the moment we call death, but our consciousness only moves from one ‘now’ moment to another. What Kurt Vonnegut is saying is similar . . . that a person is in bad shape at the time of death, but he’s perfectly fine in so many other moments. They’re both saying death is not the end— that there are an infinite number of ‘now’ moments in a person’s life.”
“I remember you telling me that Allison said time was different on the other side,” Chris added. “I wonder if our bubbles that surround us, our ‘now’ moments—the past, present, and future—which all exist simultaneously and forever, would explain why mediums can see into the past and future. Those ‘now’ moments would be no further away from us than the present.”
“Good point!” Charlie said. “I didn’t think of that. Apparently, Robert Lanza, Allison, and Kurt Vonnegut are saying similar things, but from very different angles.”
Source: Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
“That’s it”, Crow replies pointedly. “A theory that still doesn’t have any good counter-evidence is one worth pursuing. And right now? Pursuing it’s the only choice you have. Even if it means sacrificing yourself, you have to pursue it to the bitter end.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“That's it. Fate is a fickle whore. We're not going. Take your clothes off and get back in my bed.”
Source: Shadowfever
“That’s it, Gracie. Enjoy my little show. Imagine all the things I could do to you with this body, these hands, this mouth. How hard this cowboy could ride you after months of a dry spell.
11 Cowboys”
“That’s it,” he grunts against me, the sound muffled. “Take what you want from me. Take your pleasure from my tongue, mo chreach bheag.”
Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
“That's it," he said bitterly. "Cry, Cassie. Cry for her. Cry for all the children. They can't hear you and they can't see you and can't feel how really bad you feel, but cry for them. A tear for each of them, fill up the fucking ocean, cry.”
Source: The Infinite Sea
“That's it, I guess. Just go on living, whether you feel like it or not.”
Source: The Seagull
“That's it...I'm completely giving up on boys and concentrating on staying alive.”
Source: Scorched Skies
“THAT'S IT! I'M GETTING ME MALLET!”
“That's it, I'm going to beat you down and make you sorry."
Xypher froze as he braced himself for her attack.
But instead of her giving him pain, she tickled him. It took him several seconds before he realized her intent. By then she was pouting.
"You're not ticklish. Well, that stinks." She sat back and crossed her arms over her chest, hiding the breasts he loved to tease.
"I'm sorry," he said, trying to cheer her. "If it'll make you happy, I'll pretend to be."
"No it's okay. Can't have everything, I suppose." She paused at the edge of the bed. "But you come darn close."
"Close to what?"
"Being perfect. Only you're more than that, Xypher. You're wonderful."
Xypher couldn't move as she left him to go to the bathroom. He couldn't breathe as those words sank into his consciousness. She thinks I'm wonderful...”
Source: Dream Chaser
“That’s it. Keep that edge. Fight like there’s no tomorrow.”
Source: Dire Steps
“That’s it. Let’s go.”
“Yep,” whispered Suley. He turned to leave. “This is crazy.” He had his phone in his hand. “Look, we’re still in Rowland Forest. What’s this fence doing here? How come it’s not marked?”
“We’ll tell your father about it.” Saskia pulled at his arm, looking anxiously around and up. To her horror, she saw a surveillance camera mounted on an overhead tree branch. It pointed straight at them. “Merde! Suley, we’ve got to go!” she hissed, pointing to the camera.
His eyes widened.
Distant shouts and an engine roaring to life exploded the forest calm.
Suley and Saskia bolted back the way they’d come.”
Source: The Forest: A thrilling international crime novel
“That’s it, my bride. Take your pleasure.”
Source: Bound to the Orc Ranger
“That's it' one day Mother Nature will say to us, 'no more laughter, no more tears, my child.'
The vast, infinite life will begin all over again,
a life not seeing, not talking, not thinking.”
Source: Henüz Vakit Varken Gülüm
“That’s it, psycho. Let your dick lead you like every other idiot.”
Source: God of Ruin
“That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can get from each other and that's determined by how much you're giving to each other. But it all starts within our self and then it spreads to those around us, good and bad. But basically, that's it, I think it's the love that we can generate is equal to the love that we get back ... Amen.”
Source: Cloud Nine
“That’s it! See, at first I thought it was hate, too. Hate was all I knew, it built my world, it imprisoned me, taught me how to eat, how to drink, how to breathe. I thought I’d die with all my hate in my veins. But then something happened. It happened to me… just as it happened to you.”
Source: V for Vendetta
“That’s it, Skyco. That is the way to be a hunter. Never be in a hurry, never rush things. Wait until the prey is within your grasp, then strike swiftly and strike hard. Don’t miss or it may be a long time before another opportunity appears.”
Source: Spirit Quest
“That’s it, Tala.” Alaric pressed a feverish kiss to her temple, then another one to her jaw. He sounded as broken as she felt, that deep rasp of a voice guiding her higher. “Come all over your husband’s wedding ring.”
He watched her the way one watched a sunrise.”
Source: A Monsoon Rising
“THAT'S IT!" Terminus cried. "That's AGAINST THE RULES!"
Polybotes frowned, obviously confused that he was being told off by a statue. "What are you?" he growled. "Shut up!"
He pushed the statue over and turned back to Percy.
"Now I'm MAD!" Terminus shrieked. "I'm strangling you. Feel that? Those are my hands around your neck, you big bully. Get over here! I'm going to head-butt you so hard--”
Source: The Son of Neptune
“That’s it: That does it. I whirl around, furious,
something deep and black and old rising inside of
me. “Of course I’m scared. And I’m right to be
scared. And if you’re not scared it’s just because
you have the perfect little life, and the perfect little
family, and for you everything is perfect, perfect,
perfect. You don’t see. You don’t know.”
“Perfect? That’s what you think? You think my life
is perfect?” Her voice is quiet but full of anger.
I’m tempted to move away from her but force
myself to stay put. “Yeah. I do.”
Again she lets out a barking laugh, a quick
explosion. “So you think this is it, huh? As good as
it gets?” She turns a full circle, arms extended, like
she’s embracing the room, the house, everything.
Her question startles me. “What else is there?”
“Everything, Lena.” She shakes her head. “Listen,
I’m not going to apologize. I know you have your
reasons for being scared. What happened to your
mom was terrible—”
Source: Delirium
“That's it? That's all that happens after you topple from grace? We lose our rubies and rations?" Marshall smirked. "Woe is me.”
Source: 'Twas the Darkest Night (Darkest Hour Saga, #1)
“That’s it; that’s how it is; everyone standing around as if just out of the pool,
drying off, standing around, that’s it, standing, talking,
shuffling back and forth on the deck of the present
before the boat slowly pulls away into the future. Because it hurts
to say goodbye, to pull your body out of the warm water;
to step out of the pocket of safety, clinging to what you knew,
or what you thought you knew about yourself and others.”
Source: Stupid Hope: Poems
“That's it then. This is how it ends. I haven't even read Proust.”
Source: Rex Libris Volume Two: Book Of Monsters
“That’s it, though? You had one friend ever, you married her, then you respected her too much to fuck her, so she left you?”
Source: Threes: 3
“That's Jeffe, man.”
“That’s just a champagne problem.”
“A what?”
“That’s what my professor calls problems that seem like a big deal, but aren’t in the grand scheme of things. They explode dramatically, like champagne, then fizzle out.”
“That’s just it. Don’t you get it, Sarge? They’re not people anymore. They’re freaking zombies! Just like in the movies.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel