T Quotes
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“Their greatest folly is that they don't understand you or your kinfolk. They cannot imagine that you would refuse being their vassal on the throne. They have no inkling that there are races of man that value sovereignty above the air they breathe. Like a puppet they expect you to approve and sign whatever policy put before you, bulking as they presume and barbarian would confronted with the daily administrative minutiae of rulership- along with the flowery jargon they'll use to disguise their schemes. And soon, drowning in woman and wine, your senses dulled from that stuporous escape- they'll have you unwittingly dismantle the Varangian guard before burying a dagger in your back"
- Almuric Agricola
Excerpt from
Varangian: Book One of the Byzantum Saga”
Source: Varangian: Book One of the Byzantum Saga
“Their ‘green’ energy policy is toxic!”
“Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.”
Source: The fall
“Their guilt plus their repentance should have equalled forgiveness. But they don’t feel forgiven, so they failed, which makes them feel guilty, which was why they repented in the first place, so they’re stuck right where they started: Guilty.”
“Their gunnin' for me, want to see me fall, you know my story, been through it all, times I felt like dyin', but I ain't cryin', what didn't kill me, makes me strong as iron.”
“Their hands touched for an instant, but neither spoke. Silences were becoming more frequent and more delicious.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“Their hands touched, their knees touched. They were both trembling.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“Their hands were on each other—on Zee with her curated boyish look and Noelle with her carefully feminine look that was slightly tempered by the nearly shaved head and prominent hipbones and the careful comportment, giving her the quality of one of those artist’s mannequins. The arms and leges could be rearranged any way you liked, link by link, and this was what sex was too, when power was fluid. You could rearrange the other person, and the could rearrange you.”
Source: The Female Persuasion
“Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.”
Source: The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)
“their heart grew cold
they let their wings down”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“Their hearts are stirred by the familiar music they suddenly hear. See... there's magic in a bard's song. They call it 'inspiration', and it tells the listener what they need to hear, right when they need to hear it. And right now, you hear it too! The message in the music, heard round the world. You hear Johann's voice, telling you 'you're going to have to fight, and you're going to win!”
“Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time.”
“Their hearts were all cycling through the same madness - the discovery, the bliss, the loss, the despair - like planets taking turns in orbit around the sun. Each containing their own unique gravity. Their own force of attractions. Drawing near and holding fast to whatever entered their own atmosphere ... they would find love and lost love and recover from love and love again.”
Source: The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
“Their high school football is some of the best in the country.”
“Their highs are too low and their lows are too high.”
“Their hopes, dreams and fears had been bound up in the figure of Thorin Oakenshield.
Bound with him, and died with him, and as Thorin had gone so had they all.
She rode now with a company of ghosts.
Fourteen souls had marched to Ravenhill, and eleven husks had left it.”
“Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks.”
Source: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings
“Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.”
“Their house was about a mile outside of town. The kids would play outdoors, in the backyard and the large stubble field behind the house. Dusk seemed to last for hours, and when it was finally dark they would sit under the porch light, catching thickly buzzing June bugs and moths, or even an occasional toad who hopped into the circle of light, tempted by the halo of insects that floated around the bare orange lightbulb next to the front door”
Source: Ill Will
“Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.”
Source: Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain
“Their idea of what it means to live a life in a female body is informed by the male gaze, gender stereotypes and porn. This is why their fantasy recreation of a woman hardly ever involves being paid less, doing unpaid domestic labour or being ignored. Instead they are drawn to the stereotype of beautiful bimbos whose lives are easy and filled with acceptance, slumber parties, gossiping in female toilets, colouring each other's hair and prancing around in sexy lingerie and fluffy slippers.”
Source: Born in the Right Body: Gender Identity Ideology From a Medical and Feminist Perspective
“Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.”
Source: Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!
“Their inability to see your value doesn’t diminish your worth. It only reveals that their vision is blurred.”
“Their incompatible appearances have actually made them more compatible ... Some people said that when a couple comes together ... they will compliment each others shortcomings”
“Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.”
“Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.”
“Their is a lot of life after "I don't give a shit." What will your life look like when you don't give a shit?”
“Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.”
“Their is no more insidious poison than hubris.”
“Their issues are not your issues.”
Source: Value in the Valley: A Black Woman's Guide through Life's Dilemmas
“Their joy was the joy of the morning before the dew is dry, when every leaf is green.”
Source: The Silmarillion
“Their kind never get asked to turn their intellects on full blast.
But every now and then one of them gets pushed too far, and then we all find out what they can really do. The crime scene ‘bots pick up a lot of body parts when that’s over.”
Source: A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation
“Their kiss was deep and unhurried, as if he were memorizing the moment--and she was only too happy to let him. Threads of Kindness”
Source: Threads of Kindness: The Eleventh Novel in the Rosemont Series
“Their kiss was gentle at first, and then she pressed him for more like she'd done before, but this time neither work nor pack members would intrude. His blood sizzled as he touched her lips with his tongue, but she hesitated to open up to him. He backed off just a little, unwilling to let it go. He felt the hesitation in her whole body - the desire there, but the concern too. Then, as if she was ready to throw caution to the wind, she parted her lips and touched her tongue to his. But there was nothing tentative about it.”
Source: Alpha Wolf Need Not Apply
“Their kiss was sweet, certain, and sacred--the kind that bore witness to a love elevated to a lifetime commitment. Threads of Kindness”
Source: Threads of Kindness: The Eleventh Novel in the Rosemont Series
“Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.”
Source: Anecdotes, religious, moral, and entertaining
“Their [Lacadaemonian] women, it is said, were bold and masculine, overbearing to their husbands in the first place, absolute mistresses in their houses, giving their opinions about public matters freely, and speaking openly even on the most important subjects.”
Source: Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
“Their laughter floods the hallway, sounding like the cawing of crows.”
Source: The Wicked King
“Their leader looked over at me, his flawless lips in an even line, his nose chiseled to a point like an arrow aimed my way. Raven waves fell away from big eyes exhibiting more alertness in their stare than any animal or human naturally possessed. Despite how defenseless I knew myself to be, I refused to show him fear.
Jovani turned back to the four members from his clan. “I won’t need backup, Percival, I have a priceless bargaining chip.”
From the way the others eyed my form, I understood it was me he considered his negotiating leverage. I felt somewhat confident that meant I was more valuable alive.
“This stinks,” one of the lady vampires complained.
“No, Concetta, that’s just the dog.”
A perky nose sniffed in my direction as they shared a trill of amusement at my expense. All but Jovani.”
Source: The Tarishe Curse
“Their leafy whispers delighted her, and she promised her confidentiality by gently touching the trunks of both trees. They had held her secrets close to their hearts, she could do no less.”
Source: Legacy
“Their leaving made me melancholy, though I also felt something like relief when they disappeared into the dark trees. I hadn't needed to get anything from my pack; I'd only wanted to be alone. Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.”
Source: Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found
“Their level of misunderstanding about you shows how much they understand you.”
“Their lies are coming from their fear, not facts.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“Their life is mysterious, it is like a forest; from far off it seems a unity, it can be comprehended, described, but closer it begins to separate, to break into light and shadow, the density blinds one. Within there is no form, only prodigious detail that reaches everywhere: exotic sounds, spills of sunlight, foliage, fallen trees, small beasts that flee at the sound of a twig-snap, insects, silence, flowers.
And all of this, dependent, closely woven, all of it is deceiving. There are really two kinds of life. There is, as Viri says, the one people believe you are living, and there is the other. It is this other which causes the trouble, this other we long to see.”
Source: Light Years
“Their life was two things: it was a life, more or less—at least it was the preparation for one—and it was an illustration of life for their children.”
Source: Light Years
“Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“Their lips met in a slow, languid kiss. Salt from her tears mixed with her natural sweetness. She wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed closer. Her softness, her scent, she filled and overran his senses. He mouthed another kiss against her lips. Heat flared inside his abdomen when she opened her mouth, and kissed him back with firmer lips.
He sank into her embrace, the heated connection she offered. A kinetic warmth surged through him, lighting, igniting dormant pieces inside—like someone returning home . . . A soft groan, hushed breaths. Their mouths parted and found each other again. He slid his hand behind her neck as he deepened the kiss.”
Source: Losing My Breath
“Their lips met with a tenderness Kate had not dreamed possible. The weeks of heart-break and uncertainty, the pain of wasted days, and the despair of unfulfilled dreams released her like winter surrenders its ruthless grip on the frozen earth in early spring. Did every kiss hold such promise?”
Source: Kate's Song
“Their lips needed each other like oxygen.”
Source: Silk and Sword
“Their lips touched now, mouths pursed tight, their eyes open, both of them stock still. The moment held, a kind of such glorious confusion.”