T Quotes
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“That's what I thought. When I looked that human in the face, I figured he was either a genius or crazy.'
Artemis's cool eyes glared at them from the screen.
'So which is it?' asked Foaly. 'A genius or crazy?'
Root grabbed his tri-barreled blaster from the gun rack.
'What's the difference?' he snapped, strapping his trusty weapon to his hip.”
Source: Artemis Fowl
“That's what I've noticed about being 32: it is a lot of women and a lot of boys our age.”
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
“That's what I want, a mental evidence I can feel. I don't want physical evidence, proof you have to go out and drag in. I want evidence that you can carry in your mind and always touch and smell and feel. But there's no way to do that. In order to believe in a thing you've got to carry it with you. You can't carry the Earth, or a man, in your pocket. I want a way to do that, carry things with me always, so I can believe in them. How clumsy to have to go to all the trouble of going out and bringing in something terribly physical to prove something. I hate physical things because they can be left behind and become impossible to believe in them.”
“That's what I wanted—not merely the body, desirable as it was, but its will to grow into the very world that rejects its hunger.”
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“That’s what it feels like when you touch me. Like millions of tiny universes being born and then dying in the space between your finger and my skin. Sometimes I forget.”
Source: I Wrote This For You
“That's what it is. That's what my morning was like: all these real physical heavy positive vibrations, the soul of this tape. The fuzzy groove. The meaning of it all, if it has one: All love, all the time. Peace and happiness in every day. Peace and happiness with cow blood dripping from your hands, bright blood staining your fingerprints because you didn't glove up since you don't normally do prep work. Peace and happiness when you're making a list of everything that's wrong with the world and squinting your eyes tight trying to imagine your way out of it. Peace, peace, peace, happiness, happiness, happiness.”
Source: Master of Reality
“That's what it means to die, to not be able to stop looking at whatever's in front of you. Some darn thing placed directly there, with nothing you can do about it...”
Source: A Scanner Darkly
“That’s what it’s like to be a prisoner of anything. You want your freedom until you get it,
then you feel bare without your chains.”
Source: Mud Vein
“That's what lay behind the feud under way in the Republic: a battle between different noble family factions in a fight for power. Serving this side or the other was of no interest to Mathias. But the consequences of a Venice under the Pope's direct control weren't at all to his liking. His beloved books would be burned by ignorant, avid priests. Men like Malachia would win.
It was the same old struggle. The same fight Gheorg had chosen, the same fight that might take him to Wittenberg. But he wouldn't clear the way for Alexander VI. With what little strength he possessed, even though he was nothing more than a pawn of a chessboard, that extended farther then he could see, Mathias would help those in power smash what had all the makings of a major plot, one designed to overturn the government in power in La Serenissima. And these thoughts allowed the monk to find the first answer to the many question with which he still felt burdened.
He and the Borgias did NOT share the same Church.”
Source: The Lion and the Rose
“That’s what life and love should resemble. Contrast and beauty. Fragility and tenacity.”
Source: Insomnia
“That's what life is, a series of fuck-ups and what you make of 'em.”
Source: Jag
“That’s what life is all about. The obvious. The minute we start layering it with shades of grey, we start getting caught in quicksand.”
Source: Not A Book: Royal Love
“That's what life is all about - you're busy, I'm busy, and the end result is death. Sooner or later, that's what it comes to. ("The Death Of Wang Asao")”
Source: Selected Stories of Xiao Hong
“That's what life is for: dreaming and chasing that dream!”
“That's what life is for: warm friendships, memorable moments, and beautiful words.”
“That's what life's all about: little by little, day by day, with excruciating stubbornness, each of us learning how to be less screwed up.”
Source: Icebound
“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
Source: Passage
“That’s what love hotels are for.”
“I know,” says Ai, “but this man comes alone. He says he comes to this room and thinks about the lovers who have been here before him, imagines himself as one of them, imagines himself having someone to hold. He tells whoever is reading this that he’s grateful for the love we share without knowing.”
Source: The Love We Share Without Knowing
“That’s what love is. Issues. One after another and another. But when you love someone, you just have to commit. And when bad things happen, you stand together and fight until you can’t go any further. It’s that simple. But if you’re not ready to do that, then you’re not ready for marriage because I promise there will never be a lack of reasons to quit. So you’ve got to have at least one good reason to stick it out: him.” She blinks at me, her eyes threatening to tear. “You have to love him. And you. And what you make together. You have to believe in that one thing. Otherwise, it’s not going to last.”
Source: Oh, Henry
“That's what love is. It's taking a leap of faith. It's opening yourself up and letting your walls down and allowing someone to see every dark and broken corner of your soul. It's truth and honesty with yourself and them. It's raw and brutal and terrifying and real. You can't just claim to want it, but refuse to allow yourself to be vulnerable to it. That's not how it works. If you love someone, truly love them, you'll bear your soul to them and let them be the keeper of your heart no matter how fragile or damaged it might be. And if they love you then they'll do everything in their power to keep it safe, to nurture and protect it and heal over all the old wounds.”
“That’s what love’s all about. You’re the only one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“That's what makes a tragedy a tragedy. There's no rhyme or reason to it, only heartbreak. The only thing you can do when the ground stops shaking and the waters recede is try to save whoever's left.”
Source: The Ones We Trust
“That's what makes heroes so special. You carry the hopes of humanity into the realm of the eternal.”
Source: The Sea of Monsters
“That's what makes you different from the rest of us, Quentin. You actually still believe in magic.”
Source: The Magicians
“That’s what makes you grow. That’s where the potential lies. If only nice things happen to us, we get soft. We have got to “die” a little every day to really live.”
Source: Believe, Live, Run: A story about having faith
“That’s what marriage is, motherhood, except the man doesn’t do you the courtesy of growing up.”
“That’s what meditation is all about, to be capable of being alone. And remember, aloneness is not loneliness. Loneliness is the state of the person who cannot live alone; loneliness means you are dependent on the crowd, on the other. Aloneness means you are happy with yourself, you are not dependent on anybody. The moment you are not dependent you are an emperor, you are a god, a goddess. Now you have something to share, you can go into the world.”
“That's what mild television fame is like: it's like walking through the world with your fly down.”
“That’s what money wanted. It wanted to be spent. And it really wanted to be spent on luxury items. Its greatest thrill was just to be gambled away. It wanted to change hands. It wanted to find itself at the racetrack, it wanted to be thrown into the center of the table at a casino. Money is a masochist.”
Source: The Lonely Hearts Hotel
“That's what mortal means," I say with a sigh that I don't have to fake. "We die. Think of us like shooting stars, brief but bright.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“That's what most people don't realize; that's why one out of every two marriages fail. Because people go into them with hearts in their eyes and forever on their lips and no concept whatsoever of what that truly means. Of course it's going to be hard work. Of course you are going to get angry and upset and wonder why, out of everyone in the world entire world, you decided to fall in love with an idiot who farts in his sleep and eats like a pig and can't ever be assed to pick up his own dirty underwear off the fucking floor.”
Source: Mating Habits of the Domesticated North American Werewolf
“That’s what Mother calls it when she has to say something bad: breaking it. I never knew why before, but now I understand, how the words can make a crack down the middle of an ordinary morning, then push the two edges of it apart until the crack is a river and there is no getting back across it to how things used to be. And now I have to break today.”
Source: My Name is Monster
“That's what mother's do. They bother you until you listen. And they do it because they car.”
Source: The Book Charmer
“That's what my book was about. How if you change the way ahead, the way behind changes too."
"Seems kind of obvious,” she said.
It seemed so when she said it; it was obvious, or at least a commonplace. More than one history of the world; one for each of us. A bright moment arriving when you choose a new way into the future, which illuminates a new past, the backward way, at the same time. Everybody knows. It had been true all along.”
Source: Endless Things
“That's what my dad is like-he really disappeared a long time ago, which is maybe why it didn't bother me much. I wish he were here, but I've wished that for a long time. Adults think they're wielding power, but really power is wielding them.”
Source: Turtles All the Way Down
“That’s what nobody admits about men, how needy they are.”
Source: Short Century
“That's what only words can do--
Prod us toward something new
& in doing so, move us closer -> together.”
Source: Call Us What We Carry
“That’s what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn’t matter.”
Source: Drive
“That's what people never understand: They see us hard little pretty things, brightly lacquered and sequin-studded, and they laugh, they mock, they arouse themselves. They miss everything. You see, these glitters, and sparkle dusts and magicks? It's war paint, it's feathers and claws, it's blood sacrifice.”
Source: Dare Me
“That’s what photography is: it’s a way to make us stop and appreciate the fact that we all walk through a thousand perfect moments a day and don’t even take the time to notice them.”
Source: Just Might Work
“That's what pictures are for. Living in memories, even when they're gone.”
Source: A Show for Two
“that's what power is. It's just ability and desire without restriction.”
Source: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
“That's what powerful men did. Stayed quiet. Held secrets. Ran things from inside a tight protective circle, making perilous decisions only they were savvy enough to make, leaving normal morality to the mere earthlings, who lived and ate and died dully down below, never knowing the extent to which they were being shielded by a beneficent distant pulling of strings.”
Source: Vigil
“That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.”
“That's what's happening... zombies are out... but in hour movie... not in series.”
“That’s what’s important these days, isn’t it. Everything should be fun and lighthearted.”
Source: What Alice Forgot
“That’s what’s new. There used to be the option of opting out. But now that’s over. Completion is the end. We’re closing the circle around everyone—it’s a totalitarian nightmare.”
Source: The Circle
“That's what's so great about art and poetry-right when you think you "get it," you see something else. You can find a million hidden meanings.”
Source: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
“That's what's so ironic about the conservative backlash against BDSMers. With increased visibility comes increased bigotry, and conservatives continue to rally against kinky events by local groups to get them shut down. What the anti-kink fanatics don't understand about us is that we're geeks. Sex nerds. SM intellectuals. We pay money to spend a weekend going to classes.”
Source: Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge
“That’s what’s so wonderful about you, you’re so self-sufficient that I feel that you’ve created your own self.”
Source: The Blood of Others