T Quotes
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“That was the way with folk; full of sympathy for the plight of others until something was asked of them.”
Source: The Well of Secrets
“That was the way with grief: it left you alone for months together until you thought that you were cured, and then without warning it blotted out the sunlight.”
Source: The Singing Sands
“That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls”
“That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.”
Source: Specials
“That was the winter of learning empty space. Learning a tight pressure around my chest, waiting to explode and break out. But no matter how far you travel or how long you wander, how cold it grows or how drunk you get, the tight pressure just stays in there. You meditate, pray, fast and run, thinking it’s some kind of detoxification process. A stone of toxic memories from all things yesterday and you just need to release it, let go and clean yourself pure. But the stone stays in there. A big, black stone of heaviness. Sadness.”
Source: He loved me some days. I'm sure he did: 99 essays on growth through loss
“That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for other people to discover.”
Source: Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson with Commentary
“That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.”
Source: Vein of Iron
“That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“That was the worst part about losing someone-finding a place to store all the thoughts and feelings you'd otherwise share with them.”
Source: Homecoming: The 100 Book Three
“That was the worst part of it, being seen for what she was, what she felt.
Being read & being rejected”
“That was the worst period of all: it is my profession to imagine, to think in images: fifty times through the day, and immediately I woke during the night, a curtain would rise and the play would begin: always the same play, Sarah making love, Sarah with X, doing the same things that we had done together, Sarah kissing in her own particular way, arching herself in the act of sex and uttering that cry like pain, Sarah in abandonment. I would take pills at night to make me sleep quickly, but I never found any pills that would keep me asleep till daylight.”
Source: The End of the Affair
“That was the worst thing about having a relationship with someone, even a pretend relationship. You opened up, let someone in, and when it was over, they had all the ammunition they needed to completely destroy you.”
“That was the worst truth of all: alone. The word was a kind of death.”
Source: No Graves As Yet
“That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be dead scared. And I won my bet big-time. The gullible fools!”
“That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.”
“That was their way, their heathenish hope; deep in their hearts they remembered hell.”
Source: Beowulf
“That was Thorin's style. He was an important dwarf. If he had been allowed, he would probably have gone on like this until he was out of breath, without telling anyone there anything that was not known already. But he was rudely interrupted.”
Source: The Hobbit
“That was totally against the runaway”
“That was true, Iris would sometimes think, about marriage: it was only a boat, too. A wooden boat, difficult to build, even more difficult to maintain, whose beauty derived at least in part from its unlikelihood. Long ago the pragmatic justifications for both marriage and wooden-boat building had been lost or superseded. Why invest countless hours, years, and dollars in planing and carving, gluing and fastening, caulking and fairing, when a fiberglass boat can be had at a fraction of the cost? Why struggle to maintain love and commitment over decades when there were far easier ways to live, ones that required no effort or attention to prevent corrosion and rot? Why continue to pour your heart into these obsolete arts? Because their beauty, the way they connect you to your history and to the living world, justifies your efforts. A long marriage, like a classic wooden boat, could be a thing of grace, but only if great effort was devoted to its maintenance. At first your notions of your life with another were no more substantial than a pattern laid down in plywood. Then year by year you constructed the frame around the form, and began layering memories, griefs, and small triumphs like strips of veneer planking bent around the hull of everyday routine. You sanded down the rough edges, patched the misunderstandings, faired the petty betrayals. Sometimes you sprung a leak. You fell apart in rough weather or were smashed on devouring rocks. But then, as now, in the teeth of a storm, when it seemed like all was lost, the timber swelled, the leak sealed up, and you found that your craft was, after all, sea-kindly.”
Source: Red Hook Road
“That was unfortunate. I should have compared religion with religion and compared Islam not with Trinity College but with Jews, because the number of Jews who have won Nobel Prizes is phenomenally high.”
“That was vampires for you: always going for the jugular, both literally and metaphorically. They were messing up his love life as well as being inconsiderate party guests who had got blood in Magnus’s stereo system at his last party and turned Clary’s idiot friend Stanley into a rat, which was just bad manners.”
Source: What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything
“That was very appreciative because all the players vote for that. That's the highest award anyone can get in the NFL. Every team in the NFL votes for the most valuable player. I was injured. I had appendicitis the first part of the season, but I came back after ten days. Nobody came back that early. No player wants to sit on the bench. No player wants to be inactive. Everybody wants to play.I came back in ten days. I had the uniform on and played. I played those next games until I got kicked in the head.”
“That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage.”
“That was very good of him.
Remarked Prince Kaunitz, chancellor of state and minister of foreign affairs of the Holy Roman Empire, on being told of the death of Joseph II Holy Roman Emperor.”
“That was very much ahead of its time back in the 1880s and, not surprisingly, it was met with some resistance. [I]f you fast forward to today and the fact that we're the single largest source of employment for women (broadly speaking, as the reps are independent contractors), we've been an important creator of entrepreneurship for women.”
“That was very naughty,' Hawke chided, snatching the sword out of my hand as if I hadn't been holding onto it. 'You are so incredibly violent.' He dipped his chin and whispered, 'It still turns me on.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“That was very nice of you David," I finally said. "Now hold on because I'm about to drive into a fence."
"Yeah, okay," he muttered, his eyes still closed.
"You do that." Then his eyes shot open. "Wait, what?”
Source: Rebel Belle
“That was very rude of me.” “Think nothing of it. You’ve done worse.”
“That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.”
Source: Firefly Lane
“That was what captured me, what has stayed with me ever since. Have you even known it, professor—that terrifying intensity, that feeling as if you yourself have undergone some kind of alchemy, been purified, made wholly virtuous? The brilliance of that moment, the dazzling purity of conscience.”
Source: Human Acts
“That was what counted, she told herself: those unexpected moments of appreciation, unanticipated glimpses of beauty or kindness - any of the things that attached us to this world, that made us forget, even for a moment, its pain and its transience.”
Source: The Novel Habits of Happiness
“That was what drew him to machines. They followed algorithms, not emotion; when Bruce pushed his foot down on the pedal, the car only responded in one way.”
Source: Batman: Nightwalker
“That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.”
Source: Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel
“That was what had changed, he thought. To love posterity and the great institutions you had to believe in the wisdom of men. You had to love them as a child might, gazing upward.”
Source: How the Dead Dream
“That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.”
“That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to know finally that all the damp little doubts and hesitations that covered the floor of his being were curling up and expiring in the great furnace-blast of the sun.”
Source: The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House
“That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terrible the pit she found herself in, she could pull herself out, inch by inch and hand over hand, on the long rope of stories.”
“That was what humans did: They left on another messages through time, pressed between pages or carved into rock. Like reaching out a hand through time, and trusting in a phantom hoped-for hand to catch yours. Humans did not last forever. They could only hope what they made would endure.”
Source: The Bane Chronicles
“That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.”
Source: Needful Things
“That was what it felt like - as if one had always been in that place and never been bored although nothing had ever happened.”
Source: The Magician’s Nephew
“That was what it meant to be a woman: to live in an unbearable agony hidden for a time behind smoke and mirrors.”
Source: The Earthquake Machine
“That was what it meant to love someone, right? You couldn't leave them, even if they hated you. You could never let themgo.”
Source: The Mothers
“That was what life was: you worked, sometimes you couldn't sleep, and your future was already being shaped. Until something crashed into it and knocked everything out of true.”
Source: Joe Country
“That was what made them so hilarious and unafraid. That was the strength of the Nazis. [...] They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make Him stay away.”
Source: Jailbird
“That was what made traveling appeal to him - he always made new friends, and he didn't need to spend all of his time with them.
When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
Source: The Alchemist
“That was what made Vincent so perfect. His raison d'être. He was feminine to the point of being non-threatening, and masculine enough to prove Frank was homosexual after all. Not to mention obscenely beautiful.”
Source: Les Recidivists
“That was what magic did. It revealed the heart of who you'd been before life took away your belief in the possible. It gave back the world all lonely children longed for.”
Source: Ninth House
“That was what she loved about New York. That feeling of utter aliveness, a rush and flow of ruthless, furious energy. That New York belief that this was the center of the world, and God help you if you were anywhere else.”
Source: The Towering Sky
“That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.”
Source: Paint It Black: A Novel
“That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a decent woman would have been-no, she had yielded because a man wanted her. The subject was not one that could be freely discussed even among intimates, but it was understood without saying that if women began to yield for such reasons as that, marriage and society would not last long. Any man who spoke up for Mrs Dempster probably believed in Free Love. Certainly he associated sex with pleasure, and that put him in a class with filthy thinkers like Cece Athelstan.”
Source: Fifth business