T Quotes
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“There was something missing inside me I was trying to fill up, but I went about doing it the wrong way. But there sure isn't anything missing inside me now, because you're there.”
Source: This Heart Of Mine: Number 5 in series
“There was something more, something difficult to articulate. The woman in the photograph was illuminated: it was that face, of course, with its beautiful features and the enlivened expression, but it was the styling of the image, too. The long, unfussy hair, the romantic dress, loose and earthy, but also alluring where it caught her waist, where a sleeve had been pushed up her arm to reveal sunlit skin. Elodie could almost feel the warm breeze coming off the river to brush against the woman's face, to lift her hair and heat the white cotton of her dress. And yet, that was her mind playing tricks, for there was no river in the picture. It was the freedom of the photograph she was responding to, its atmosphere.”
Source: The Clockmaker's Daughter
“There was something mournful in her voice, but not broken. This song was the bridge between life and death. It was mystical. Spun together like a spell. Just pure magic and heartbreak.
And that velvety sandpaper alto of hers sounded eerily similar to my voice.”
Source: Hopepunk
“There was something much greater she needed to feed her soul, and perhaps one day soon she would go...”
Source: Wanderlust
“There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel
“There was something odd for him about not feeling lonely. The very fact that he had ceased to be lonely caused him to fear the possibility of becoming lonely again.”
Source: Tony Takitani
“There was something out of kilter with his mother's happiness, as though a light had been switched on by a passing stranger, and left to illuminate an empty room.”
Source: The Green Road
“There was something panicked about my desire to acquire knowledge, in sudden terrible insights I saw that actually I didn't know anything and it was urgent, I didn't have a second to lose. It was almost impossible to adapt this urgency to the the slowness that reading required.”
Source: Min kamp 5
“There was something peculiar I noticed when about thinking about freedom. Everyone wants it but less are willing to extend the same freedoms to everyone. Seems inconsistent to me.”
“There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.”
Source: Clockwork Angel
“There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out. Of course, the aftermath was less pleasant. Once you'd told everyone you hated them and not to come after you, where exactly did you go?”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“There was something quite beautiful about finding such a profound connection with an absolute stranger. In a city as densely populated as New York, the ratio of oddballs and jerks often seems to outnumber the sane ones. But tonight, I had found that rare gem.”
Source: Gnight, Sara / 'Night, Heck
“There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair”
Source: Rebecca
“There was something really wonderful about being able to feel confident about doing my first exhibition in China, that people would have no trouble recognising the images and understanding my work. I also have a lot of freedom in the way I use colour, and I think that kind of freedom in colour is also understandable in every culture.”
“There was something sacred about the light that flooded inside this abandoned edifice, as if washing away all the collective pain, misery, and bad history that ever happened in this place, giving it a chance to be something new.”
Source: In Search for Meaning
“There was something sad about leaving your sadness behind.”
Source: Lightbreakers
“There was something shockingly incongruous about the people there, their flamboyant clothes, the way they were laughing as though nothing was wrong. How was such a scene possible, when so many people had died?”
Source: Human Acts
“There was something so best-musical-ever when people screamed and begged for mercy, and she could listen to a good musical all day.”
Source: The Darkest Surrender
“There was something so cool about being able to carry this film [Into the Forest] together [with Ellen Page] and to play off of each other. It was like having the most worthy tennis opponent.”
“There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.”
Source: Just Listen
“There was something so natural and winning to Clara's resigned way of looking at these stores in detail, as Herbert pointed them out, -- and something so confiding, loving and innocent, in her modest manner of yielding herself to Herbert's embracing arm -- and something so gentle in her, so much needing protection.”
Source: Great Expectations
“There was something so powerful in her words that every statement countering it sounded pathetically redundant. All he wanted was to curl up in her arms, but not the carnal appetite of the last encounter, but as a child cradled in the loving lap of his mother, desperate and dumb before the long separation forced upon them.”
Source: The Mindful Brain: Your life-journey of meeting a brain and culture founded psychology, and discovering the mindpower in positive psychology and flow.
“There was something so raw about being known this intimately, being understood down to his darkest parts.”
Source: Don't Let the Forest In
“There was something so strange in all this, something so weird and impossible to imagine, that there grew on me a sense of my being in some way the sport of opposite forces - the mere vague idea of which seemed in a way to paralyse me. I was certainly under some form of mysterious protection. From a distant country had come, in the very nick of time, a message that took me out of the danger of the snow-sleep and the jaws of the wolf.”
Source: Dracula's Guest
“There was something so tragically simple about a dance ending. A hand leaving a shoulder, a waist. Two hands unclasping and letting go of one another. Just like that.”
Source: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
“There was something so unutterably ridiculous about the sight of a US company deleting posts accusing it of censorship that many other people began to protest.”
Source: Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt
“There was something so very beautiful about a notebook without a single note in it.
It felt like touching pure potential.”
Source: The Spellshop
“There was something so wrong about war, something so horrific and soul-destroying that she hadn't ever contemplated, until now, as the senseless loss of life crushed her. On one side you were crippled by it; on the other side you were the perpetrator of it. There were no winners”
Source: A View Across the Rooftops
“There was something soothing about the crackle of paper, the smell of ink, and the soft scratching of nibs and brushes.”
Source: Shadow and Bone: Chapters 1-5
“There was something sort of bleak about her tone, rather as if she had swallowed an east wind. This I took to be due to the fact that she probably hadn't breakfasted. It's only after a bit of breakfast that I'm able to regard the world with that sunny cheeriness which makes a fellow the universal favourite. I'm never much of a lad till I've engulfed an egg or two and a beaker of coffee.
"I suppose you haven't breakfasted?"
"I have not yet breakfasted."
"Won't you have an egg or something? Or a sausage or something? Or something?"
"No, thank you."
She spoke as if she belonged to an anti-sausage league or a league for the suppression of eggs. There was a bit of silence.”
“There was something soul-burningly about being on the brink of losing control, tumbling over into the unknown, and I wanted to fall and never resurface.
—Jennifer L. Armentrout”
Source: Onyx
“There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.”
Source: Small Steps
“There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Superman and Lois Lane.”
“There was something stately about her, at the age of twenty-eight. She was mature and dignified. She looked like the kind of person who knew exactly who she was.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“There was something striking about a single key. It was like a question waiting to be answered, a whole missing a half. Useless on its own, needing something else to be truly defined.”
Source: Lock and Key
“There was something striking about her posture; something about the tilt to her head. She was like a beautiful and lonely piece of art, lovely but unreachable.”
Source: Forever
“There was something stubborn in me that didn't want to lose weight to attract a man. If the right man came along, he'd be able to see my virtues magically. Once he kissed me, the frog would turn into a prince. I had become a trick question, a heavy disguise, but behind the disobliging exterior was the welcoming child I would always be. Of course, what I'd forgotten was that he was not Parsifal and I was not the Grail; the medievalism of my imagination was not sufficiently up-to-date to recognize that the lover was a shopper and I a product.”
“There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.”
Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went
“There was something sweet in watching him pull himself back together, restoring the façade he wore for the world while I knew at least a little of the man beneath it.”
Source: The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day
“There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As it crossed the cold water, it lost its fervour. Instead of valour or gallantry, you could hear the sadness of a soul parting with everything that it loved, calling on its nearest and dearest to wake up, to lift their head from their pillows and hear for the last time the voice of a father, a husband, a son or a brother...”
“There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.”
“There was something that resonated on a deep… spiritual level… about cutting a man in half.”
Source: Super Ninja: The Sword of Heaven
“There was something that was killing the people in the interior, in the forest area, of the country, and nobody quite knew what it was. That lasted a good three months before it was officially declared that it was Ebola virus. So it started off in Guinea and spread quite slowly, but then spread over the border into Sierra Leone and Liberia.”
“There was something that was very manly about having the strength and having the courage to sing about love and romance. And I don't know what happened in our world where that was turned into being soft, because I don't think it's soft at all.”
“There was [...] something to always like and hate about seeing himself in his children. Please by like me. Please don't be like me. He couldn't figure it.”
Source: Children of Promise
“There was something to be said for refrigerators. Although they inspired waste, they created the illusion that there would always be a tomorrow, you could keep things in them forever. ... Why had the media analysts never done any work on refrigerators? Those who had refrigerators surely perceived life differently from those who didn’t. What the bank was to money, the refrigerator was to food...”
“There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.”
“There was something tragic in that sloppy and immoderate fertility: the misery of a creature struggling on the border of nothingness and death; the strange heroism of a femininity triumphant in its fecundity over the deformity of nature and the insufficiency of man. Yet her progeny revealed the cause of that maternal panic, that frenzy of birthing that had exhausted itself in abortive foetuses and an ephemeral generation of phantoms without blood or faces.”
Source: Nocturnal Apparitions: Essential Stories
“There was something twisting in his gut that he wanted to deny and couldn't. It was like a knife in him that he could not remove lest he bleed to death.”
Source: On a Foreign Field: A Story of Loyalty and Brotherhood