T Quotes
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“That’s what accountability really is—fulfilling a promise to ourselves.”
Source: The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World
“That's what arrest is: it's a blinding flash and a blow which shifts the present instantly into the past and the impossible into omnipotent actuality.”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“That’s what being a mother is, isn’t it? Waiting for a rounded belly to tighten in readiness; listening for the sound of hunger in the moonlit hours; hearing an eager voice call even in the camouflage of traffic, loud music, and whirring machines. It’s looking at every door, every phone, and every approaching silhouette and feeling that slight lift, that tickle of opportunity to be again—mother.”
Source: When the Moon is Low
“That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!”
Source: Diggers
“That’s what children eventually were for their aging parents: custodians of technology, free personal IT departments keeping them from disappearing forever from the universal cloud.”
Source: Orient
“That’s what comes of hungering for something; you forget to check if it’s rotten before you gobble it down”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“That’s what comes of overthinking things. On a more pragmatic level, we do things simply because we do them. I wrote this book because I couldn’t not write it. To stop myself from creating art would be as absurd as changing my personality and mannerisms entirely to become a wholly different person.”
Source: Bending The Universe
“That's what coming face-to-face with six months in the woods will do to you: as soon as you realize you have the chance to be a different person, you become one. You can forget who you are. This is no accident when you've spent miles wondering, with every labored step, Who is this person who has decided to try this?--wondering who you are. You have nothing but time to answer the question, to give a new account of yourself. Your only witness might be a blanket of cool moss on a sunny day, or a panorama of endless mountains, or a young doe gazing by the Trail. You've yet to discover that the journey is the destination. So you lose yourself, then you find yourself again, farther along.”
Source: Just Passin' Thru: A Vintage Store, the Appalachian Trail, and a Cast of Unforgettable Characters
“That's what conscience does to you - it takes away the slightest inclination of compromise, and turns you into an incorruptible beacon of pure conviction.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“That's what death is, Danny thought: wanting to talk to someone and not being able to.”
Source: The Keep
“That’s what does it. That’s what breaks your heart a little. And if it doesn’t break your heart a little, why bother?”
Source: Everything Is Just Beginning
“That's what dreams are really like, you know? They're not full of melting clocks or floating roses or people made out of rocks. Most of the time, dreams look just like the normal world. It's your feelings that tell you something's off. Not your mind, not your intellect, not something as obvious as that. The only part of you that really knows what's going on is the part of you that's most a mystery. If that's not Surrealism, I don't know what is.”
Source: Crazy
“That's what education does - helps you come up with the right word at the right time.”
Source: Storm Child
“That's what every religion teaches," Sazed said, frustration mounting. "Yet in each of them I find inconsistencies, logical leaps, and demands of faith I find impossible to accept."
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"It sounds to me, young one," Haddek said, "that you're searching for something that cannot be found." "The truth?" Sazed said. "No," Haddek replied. "A religion that requires no faith of its believers."
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"But you don't know," Sazed said." "You are offered proof only once you believe, but if you believe you can find proof in anything. It is a logical conundrum." "Faith isn't about logic, son," Haddek said. "Perhaps that's your problem. You cannot disprove the things you study, any more than we can prove to you that the Hero will save us. We simply must believe it, and accept the things Preservation has taught us.”
Source: The Hero of Ages
“That's what fear is, It's a cold. Or maybe a fever. under the right conditions it spreads, and there's no known cure.”
“That’s what forgetting your grandpa’s face feels like. There’s no good in it. Nothing to gain but nothing. A piece of your heart makes a sound like a groan and disappears. Then you poke at it sometimes, trying to remember what was there by the shape of the hole. That’s it. You are less.”
Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue
“That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't.”
Source: Hold Still
“That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.”
Source: Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
“That's what friends, that's what brethren are for. To be there, where words cannot.”
Source: Hydranos
“That’s what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.”
Source: A Theory Of Fun For Game Design
“That's what got her, of course. That everyone thought it so unbelievable that she could possibly attract a man like him. It shouldn't upset her because it was true. She couldn't. Not in this world, in this lifetime. Yet she didn't appreciated everyone else acting as if they were the most improbable twosome since Quasimodo hit on Esmeralda.”
Source: Ms. Match
“That’s what happened when you were possessed by a woman. All of a sudden you stopped running from love and started breaking all of your own rules … making a fool of yourself. I was okay with that. - Caleb Drake”
Source: Thief
“That's what happens. Governments fuck you around. People fuck you around. By the time they're done, you don't know who you are. Especially if you weren't sure to begin with.”
“That’s what happens when destiny unveils itself: you get a sense of knowing you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be, and with whom.”
Source: A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III - Adult Version
“That's what happens when people die. They take themselves with them and you never ever find out anything new about them ever.”
Source: The Safekeep
“That's what happens when people get too serious. Feelings get hurt. Hearts get broken. Some people never learn. Don't get serious. It's my number one rule.”
Source: Die for Her
“That's what happens when stars stop fusing hydrogen into helium. They lose their helium, become too heavy, and then fall through the spacetime fabric, leaving the black hole behind them.”
“That's what happens with love. It ends. By death or separation.”
Source: Call Me Zelda
“That’s what having no sensation is like: to be without a body, as if you’re ethereal, floating like a ghost. To not feel alive. "Seeing is believing” is doubly applicable to someone like her.”
Source: 空の境界 上
“That’s what he is—a snake, a dangerous predator—and here I am, a mouse…waiting to be devoured.
Luna Ketz, Rise Above Twilight”
“That's what hiding away did, whether it was from the world or yourself, your past, or even your dreams. It took absolutely no effort to have a miserable life. But building a glorious one? A life worth living and sharing with others? That's what was hard." Joanna”
Source: The Neon Graveyard
“That's what humans do. We make. We remake. We build, and we rebuild. And yes, sometimes we paint with blood, and we tear down our civilisations, and it might never stop. But if we're ever to unlearn our darker instincts, we have to be free to learn better ones. Take away the chance for us to change, and I promise you, we never will." I looked her in the eye. "I'm willing to fight for that chance.”
“That's what I'd tell you if I thought you could be responsible for anything. But normal people don't choose on the basis of consequences, they just play roles. There's a picture in your head of a stern disciplinarian and you do whatever that picture would do, whether or not it makes any sense. A stern disciplinarian would order the students back to their rooms, even if there was a troll roaming the hallways. A stern disciplinarian would order students not to leave the Hall on pain of expulsion. And the little picture of Professor McGonagall that you have in your head can't learn from experience or change herself, so there isn't any point to this conversation. People like you aren't responsible for anything, people like me are, and when we fail there's no one else to blame.”
“That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn’t worry — poetry is still first. Cigarettes and alcohol follow”
“That's what I don't like about college, by the way. It's like a lot of people don't believe these years really count, so you're allowed to experiment with... whatever. There's such a casual view about things like sex and drinking and even drugs. I know that sounds really old-fashioned, but I just don't get it...to be honest, I'm kind of disappointed in those two people I heard about, and I don't want to sit there trying to pretend that I'm not. I know I shouldn't judge,...but still, what was the point? Shouldn't you save things like that for someone you love? So that it really means something?" - Savannah”
Source: Dear John
“That's what I fear: being subtracted from myself. Negation. Forced against my will to become a beast.”
Source: Bleeds My Desire
“That's what I feel like now,' I told him. 'I feel like there's a low hanging wooden beam, right in front of me, and I keep walking slap bang into it. A hundred times a day I walk into that beam, and the pain hits me, right here, between the eyes.'
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In time I could have told him that I never did learn to duck to avoid the pain of losing her. What happened was that I found myself stumbling into it less and less often. Imperceptibly at first: whereas at the start it happened to me a hundred times a day, by the time a month had gone by I was struck by the blow of it perhaps only ninety-five times a day. Another month and it hit me only ninety times in a twenty-four-hour period, and by the time a year had passed, there was sometimes a whole hour when I did not collide with the pain of it. It wasn't that it was any less painful when I did, just that the intervals in between got longer and longer. That's how I came to understand that I was healing.”
Source: Nothing but Blue Sky
“That’s what I get for playing with fire,” he grumbles, rubbing his head.
It can’t hurt too badly – his head is far too hard. “And here I always thought I was the one playing with fire. You being the bad boy.”
“Nope,” he says, dropping down beside me. “The one playing with fire is the one most likely to get burned.”
Source: Crushed
“That's what I hated thinking about the most. Oblivion. Nothing. Forever. As unfathomable as the universe around us stretching endlessly, impossibly big, horrible, terrifying... Being alive scared the shit out of me most of the time, but being dead would be so much worse.”
Source: The Immeasurable Depth of You
“That's what I learned. Everybody's black and blue, somewhere. I never met anybody who wasn't."
"Not like me."
"No," said Shannon. "Everybody gets broken all their own way." She smiled bitterly. "That's what makes you, you: the pieces you're smashed into aren't like anybody else's. They're all yours.”
Source: Long Black Veil
“That’s what I like about art. It lets me become more like myself, not more like everyone else.”
Source: A Handful of Stars
“That's what I like most about her; she isn't fearless. She's scared, but she keeps fighting. She has moments of doubt, when she runs away, but she comes back. She doesn't give up. Sometimes she fails, she falls down, she makes mistakes. She's real.”
“That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere swanky for lunch. It mad me so damn sad when I thought about it, their never going anywhere swanky for lunch or anything. I knew it wasn’t too important, but it made me sad anyway.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may have an idea, but you can't be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings. Is it a stand-in-a symbol-for another idea? Does it fit into a larger, more hidden, metaphor?”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“That’s what I love about what-am-I riddles or more open-ended riddles: there are always a certain set of traditional answers to those riddles, like with other riddles, but their answers are determined by whether or not they fit the criteria the riddle has, not just whether or not they fit the answer; it’s kind of like an evidence-based answer versus a multiple choice question. If I, for example, presented you with this riddle: “What is an impulse yet helps you think” (I just made that riddle up, actually), there is the traditional answer I thought of: nerve impulses. However, there are still other possibilities. For instance, a person could be all philosophical and say, ‘any impulse helps you think. Although you think recklessly, you technically are still thinking.’ With a multiple choice question, there would only be one answer, so you are very limited with riddles like that.”
Source: The Reformation
“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.”
Source: Death Troupe
“That's what I'm afraid of, Winter. I don't know how to follow you."
"Then don't."
"What?"
"I'll come to you.”
“That’s what I’m trying, sir… getting my life.”
“That’s what I thought I wanted. A nice, safe, uneventful life…Safe and uneventful are just other words for lonely. - Matt Harte”
Source: Outlaw Hartes
“That's what I thought I was. A stalker of stalkers. A predator preying on predators.”
Source: Game