T Quotes
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“Then she elaborated: I don't think friendship or love need any reason. What matters is how long we are committed to the relationship. This is more important than any reason.”
Source: Why the Silhouette?
“Then she fell on her knees, saying: 'I beg thee!' 'Nay, lady,' he said, and taking her by the hand he raised her. The he kissed her hand, and sprang into the saddle, and rode away, and did not look back; and only those who knew him well and were near to him saw the pain that he bore.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“Then she (Gossamer) turns to Jeb. "Elfin knight, do you wish for pleasure on your quest? I can provide it, if you so desire."
Rubbing his labret with his thumb, Jeb glances at me, adorably bewildered. "Um. No thanks. I'm good.”
Source: Splintered
“Then she got all teary again and made the scrunchy face with more nodding, and the pain started to come out, but then she worked really hard to reign it in and fight the tears and shook her head side to side as if that would keep it in, which it did, and then she dropped her chin and made a weird motor cry and took a deep breath in and exhaled and nodded and succeeded. Wow. Amazing. It was like watching a transformer or sculptor taking clay through a full range of emotions. Sadie is a true emo artist.”
Source: Saoirse Berger's Bookish Lens In La La Land
“Then she got to work.
Thinking a bit of organization would help, Rapunzel took out the wanted poster of Flynn and made a chart on the back, dividing the rectangle into twenty-eight days. She wrote the moon phases neatly on each. On Day One, New Moon, she wrote Murderhair. Now it was Day Six; Waxing Crescent. Under this she wrote Transformative-- Lizard to Dragon. Day 8 would be Waxing Half Moon-- that would be exciting, right? Maybe that would mean a really big change in her powers. For Day 15, Full Moon, she wrote Healing?
She looked at her neat little chart and felt very pleased with herself.
Projects.
They were the best.”
Source: What Once Was Mine
“Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel
“Then she is on me. Her soft, hot body collapses onto my own ravenous frame. She pushes my legs open with her knees and pulls my arms above my head with her hands, holding me a willing hostage. For one long moment we are eye to eye. Her breasts press down into my nipples, goading them but offering no release, and then her lips come crashing down on mine. She kisses me as though she already owns me; exploring my mouth with her tongue, dragging it aggressively from one side of my lips to the other.”
Source: Customer Service
“Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.”
“Then she laughed for real, and put her hands around my neck. 'I am never, ever going to make things easy for you Seaweed Brain. Get used to it.'
When she kissed me, I had the feeling my brain was melting right through my body.
I could've stayed that way forever, except a voice behind us growled, 'Well it's about time!'
Suddenly the pavilion was filled with torchlight and campers. Clarisse led the way as the eavesdroppers charged and hoisted us both onto their shoulders.
'Oh, come on!' I complained. 'Is there no privacy?'
'The lovebirds need to cool off!' Clarisse said with glee.
'The canoe lake!' Conner Stoll shouted.
With a huge cheer, they carried us down the hill, but they kept us close enough to hold hands. Annabeth was laughing, and I couldn't help laughing too, even though my face was completely red.
We held hands right up to the moment they dumped us in the water.”
Source: The Last Olympian
“Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)
“Then she leans forward, and before I have time to say or think another word, she's kissing me. And I'm kissing her, too.
It starts almost in slow motion. Her lips, soft on mine, light little kisses, tiptoeing. Then she opens her mouth slightly, kissing me with more force. I keep thinking about how perfectly our mouths fit together. Her lips are so gentle, her tongue drawing me in. I'm losing myself in her.”
Source: Read Me Like a Book
“Then she leans over, brushes her lips against his forehead, and turns off the lamp.”
Source: Perfect Lies
“Then she leant over and kissed him very slowly, with infinite tenderness. As if she had had to wait an eternity to do so.”
Source: The Club Dumas
“Then she let Bear stride her into the stream, feeling the cold, rushing pressure of the water, and the slither of wet, weed-covered stones under her feet. At first, the cold was pleasant, but after a while it started to bite. Her mind fidgeted as well, thinking of time lost and pursuers behind them. Bear, on the other hand, was patient as a mountain. After a while Makepeace was infected with his alert calm. The pain of the cold water became simply something that was, like the blue of the sky. Her mind-fidgets eased.”
Source: A Skinful of Shadows
“Then, she let it go.”
Source: The Way We Fall
“Then she lifted her face and smiled gallantly at the empty sky. ‘There will be other rainbows.’ she said.
Emily was a chaser of rainbows.”
Source: Emily's Quest
“Then she looked at the man on the tree and she smiled wryly. "They just aren't as interesting naked," she said. "It's the unwrapping that's half the fun. Like with gifts, and eggs.”
Source: American Gods
“Then she made herself a hot-water bottle, for company as much as warmth, and went slowly up to bed.”
Source: A Country Escape
“Then she made up her mind.It was absurd to pretend that he did not exist.It no longer hurt her to see him. She opened the door wide and let him into her life again.”
“Then she marched to the pillows and beat them mercilessly until they lay puffed out like obedient clouds.”
Source: Bitterblue
“Then she moved backwards, deeper into the shadow. All I could see was that she was barely there, like something you almost recall: the Pledge of Allegiance, your daddy’s real name.”
Source: Tomato Red
“Then she noted a piece of graffiti on a low wall which said THE WORLD IS ON FIRE and another that said ONE EARTH = ONE CHANCE and her smile faded. After all, a different life didn't mean a different planet.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Then she offers him a slim but sincere smile, and he reluctantly returns it. It doesn't bridge the gap between them, but at least it marks the spot where the bridge might be built.”
Source: UnWholly
“Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain - unique, unmistakable.”
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
“Then she pointed across the rolling hill to the most famous grave in the [All Saints] cemetery, which is where she was headed next, to pay respects to Harry Caray before going to watch the game. His stone has green apples on top, an inside joke referencing a quote about the Cubs one day making it to a World Series just as surely as God made green apples”
Source: The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business
“Then she pointed her spoon at Tumble and Blue. "I'm in if Ida's in," she said. "But if my gerbils get hurt, I'll make sure every animal in the Okefenokee knows I don't like you.”
Source: Tumble & Blue
“Then she questioned, "Too much idea about love, I wanna know what love is? Is there one right person for everyone? Is there true love? Can someone really beat your heart and conquer it?”
“Then she reached to kiss him on the lips, and he let himself have that. Soft, warm, she loved him, a monstrous abomination, a Cursed One. This might be all they ever had, this moment, this kiss, this love.”
“Then she realised that Levy had been silent for some time, and, like most shy people, she was afraid of silence.”
Source: The Blank Wall
“Then she remarked that marriage was a serious matter.
To which I answered: "No.”
Source: The Stranger
“Then she remembered. The apple. Reaching over to her bag on the passenger seat with her right hand, left hand on the wheel, Grace grasped the apple like a baseball and brought it to her face. Again, she held it under her nose and took in its scent. Wow. Even with the wind blowing around her, the fragrance was full and lush and sweet- though not overtly, like so many of today's commercially bred grocery store apples, but deep, dark, sugared, as the night in a Caribbean cane field.”
Source: The Orchard
“Then she said, "The trouble with humans is that it's all or nothing with them. They seem to think anything impossible could happen in the old days. And just because it's the new days, they tell you none of it is true. Now I'm going to sleep.”
Source: Dogsbody
“Then she said, with mock horror, "She's going to bring some of her old wigs, if you can believe it." She rubbed her bare head with her free hand. "I'll look like a zombie Margaret Thatcher.”
Source: A Monster Calls
“Then she said, with piteous defiance, "If I could love her, the Good Lord could, and he won't be too hard on an old lady who didn't have an easy life.”
Source: The Harp in the South
“Then she sat as if paralyzed, thinking. She had never in her life felt such a longing. She wanted Mikael Blomkvist to ring the doorbell and ... what then? Lift her off the ground, hold her in his arms? Passionately take her to the bedroom and tear off her clothes? No, she really just wanted his company. She wanted to hear him say that he liked her for who she was. That she was someone special in his world and in his life. She wanted him to give her some gesture of love, not just of friendship and companionship.”
“Then she sat, just for a few minutes, on the sagging bench by the memorial garden and thought about how lucky she was. She might not have much in her world, but she had everything she needed.
The Midnight Bakery”
“Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.”
Source: The Little Match Girl
“Then she saw the shadow. An unmoving Sphinx crouched at her bedside, and as her vision adjusted, she saw eyes, twin glints in the darkness. They blinked.”
“Then she saw them both as little girls with wicker baskets in hand as they gathered treasures from Ivy's garden. Beautiful beetles with iridescent green wings clung to Brigid's black sundress, and ghostly white cabbage moths fluttered around her head. A ladybug landed on Brigid's nose and she passed it to Phoebe. "Make a wish," she told her sister.”
Source: The Women of Wild Hill
“Then she say, "Aibee, you're my real mama." She don't even look at me, just say it like she talking about the weather.”
Source: The Help
“Then she says, You don't read women authors do ya? At least that's what I think I hear her say. Well, I said, how would you know and what would it matter anyway. Well, she says you just don't seem like you do. I said you're way wrong. She says which ones have you read then. I say I've read Erica Jong.”
“Then she says, ‘I love you.’ Like three drops of blood falling onto snow.”
Source: Before I Die
“Then she sent to the floor and pulled the pins from her hair while the water beat down on her, wishing it could wash away the emptiness of her soul. But all she was left with her thoughts, swirling in her mind like the water down the drain.”
“Then she sighed. Just the faintest, softest release of breath. The sound swept through his chest like a hurricane, with the force to topple trees.”
Source: Romancing the Duke
“Then she smiled and told me I was cute, and that I should be careful, and I asked her why, then she said that she might fall for me, but I know she was joking, because who would want to fall for me? I'm a mess.”
Source: Summer and Autumn
“Then she smiled, and in that instant, if such a thing were possible, Pasquale fell in love, and he would remain in love for the rest of his life--not so much with the woman, whom he didn't even know, but with the moment.”
Source: Beautiful Ruins
“Then she smiles, and it turns out she has dimples, and it's all over.”
Source: These Broken Stars
“Then she smiles, like it's
the first time she's seen sun
after a decade of winters.”
Source: Cinnamon Rain
“Then she spent her evenings curled up in her small boardinghouse room, poring over the pages. It was her only escape to a bigger, more interesting world. There are no prison walls if one has books, she had read someplace. But even so, her days and nights often were lonely.”
Source: Beyond the Gathering Storm
“Then she spoke in a voice I’d never heard come out of her.
‘Stop that! It’s not going to work!’ growled a deep, creepy voice that emanated from her lips. … Whatever was speaking, it did not seem to be my sweet-but-troubled patient. I immediately felt I was in the presence of something possibly supernatural and potentially evil.”
Source: Hidden Medicine: The Unseen War on Your Health and the Spiritual Prescription for Healing That Could Transform Healthcare