T Quotes
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“They had him. Far down the platform we heard the sudden fifing shrill of the engine whistle. The guard cried warning; all up and down the platform doors were slammed. Slowly the train moved from the station. We rolled right past him, very slowly. They had him. They surrounded him. He stood among them, protesting volubly, talking with his hands now, insisting all could be explained. And they said nothing. They had him.”
Source: I Have a Thing to Tell You
“They had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of words provided it didn't include expletives, which they were apparently saving for their own use around the office.”
Source: The Imperfectionists
“They had hoped that someplace, somewhere, someone heard them, that their own little dreams would come true, that very soon they would meet someone they could trust, could love and be happy with. Some of the wishes came true, but it made no difference to the city because it had been built to endure beyond the lifetime of all the people that inhabited it. That is the way things were. And if things did not change, the way it would always be.”
Source: West Side Story
“They had hugged each other quickly, and Lily realized then and there that they'd never be able to kiss goodbye in public. (A tightening in her chest as she reluctantly turned away.)”
Source: Last Night at the Telegraph Club
“They had
inherited a poor, patriarchal, and formal society, and turned it into a rich,
feminist, and fiercely egalitarian one.”
Source: The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
“They had Jan Venegoor of...whatever you call him.”
“They had jumped ship in order to escape military conscription at home, and because the streets of America were paved with gold. They spoke no English.”
Source: Deadeye Dick
“They had just showed up, Amatis had said. Which meant Simon had spent the entire night at Isabelle's. She stared at him. He didn't look any different.”
Source: City of Glass
“They had killed each other here in a fit of demented fury, like enraged predators, like frenzied tarantulas, like rats deranged by hunger. Like men.”
Source: Град обреченный
“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked higher than the pyramids; they had killed themselves over the failure to find a love none of us could ever be. In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.”
Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel
“They had killed themselves over the failure to find a love that none of us could ever be.”
Source: The Virgin Suicides
“They had kissed so often in lust, in passion, but never like this.
This felt like a renewal, a pledge… A beginning.”
Source: The Emperor's Wolf
“They had known each other intimately, as husband and wife, countless times, He had held her with tenderness and passion, but never with such rampant wildness.”
Source: Love, Come to Me
“They had known each other long enough to survive far worse than a teenager with a pen.”
“They had known who she was all right. She glistened with sex. Even the roaches and the ants and the flies wanted to fuck her.”
Source: Women
“They had laid the tender, down-ruffled little bird on a platter and appeared now to be pondering a way to eat out its heart without causing it distress.”
Source: The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
“They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else--the cold, and where he'd go in it--was outside, for a while anyway.”
Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
“They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing.”
“They had learned that Sorhatani expected the same sort of instant obedience as her husband. She had grown up around men of power and had married into the great khan’s family at a very young age. She knew that men prefer to follow, that it takes an effort of will to lead. She had that will.”
Source: Khan: Empire of Silver
“They had left the buckets of stemmed flowers and now found themselves in the center of the indoor succulent section, an array of miniature plants with whimsical names such as burro's tail and flaming katy. Olive slowed her pace, taking her time perusing metal racks of each variety. She stooped down and plucked a container of a sweet, blossom-shaped plant.
"What's that one?" Julia asked. She liked the look of its pink-edged tips, whose color reminded her of a radish.
"This guy here is called roseum. It likes the sun, so I'd have to think of a spot near a window. But it's a nice touch of color among all the green. At different times of year, it develops clusters of light-pink star-shaped flowers. I like it because it adds texture next to something like, say, that jade plant, which is more like a stocky little tree. If I place them together, it adds interest."
"Wow. That sounds great."
Olive brightened. "Thanks. And then, see these here?" She pointed to a miniature plant with chubby, rosette-style leaves.
"Yes?" Julia leaned closer and squinted to read the sign. "The one that says 'Sedum Golden Glow'?"
"Yes. That one. I'm thinking of getting a few of those guys and placing them on the dining table in these cool little glass-and-gold terrariums I found online. They have delicate little panes of glass set against metal frames that catch your eye, and they're fancy enough for Mom's taste. She's okay if I do rustic, but she always wants a touch of something expensive mixed in. The terrariums do the trick, I think.”
Source: The Second Chance Supper Club
“They had lived down the road from each other as children. Everyday they walked home from school hand in hand; they were childhood sweethearts, they were bestfriends. And when they came of age, in the time-honoured Sri Lankan tradition they were given in marriage. To other people.”
Source: The Good Little Ceylonese Girl
“They had me all happy, singing. It was very awkward. I think the writers are frantically planning something appropriate to honor him, but we don't know what.”
“They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.”
“They had me on my back.
And then they all swarmed at once.
Bony hands pawed at me. The grunts and groans rang in my ears.
I screamed as their sharp fingers punctured my chest - and ripped it open.
I kept screaming as they lowered their ugly heads and began to feed.”
Source: Zombie Halloween
“They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.”
“They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him, and she said she had been in love by the end of the song. He told her he had been in love before the beginning.”
“They had moved closer to one another to watch the dying moments of the day, this beautiful bright May day.”
Source: Bel-Ami
“They had named her Chutney because she smelled like a mix of too many things. None of them pleasant.
It's how she had smelled from the day they had brought her home, an abandoned year-old puppy with balance issues. They had changed her diet several times, switched to feeding her homemade food, bathed her every day. Nothing worked. It was the slobber. There was just some sort of genetic thing that no vet could figure out how to mask. Tara had declared that there was something magical about having a dog with an odor problem living in a home that made incense.”
Source: Incense and Sensibility
“They had nationalities even: Thai eggplant, Chinese eggplant, Italian eggplant. The United Nations of eggplants terrified me because I knew the oblong purple vegetable as baingan, brinjal in English, and I could cook it in five different ways. Would this exotic brinjal still yield to my hands?”
Source: The Radiance of a Thousand Suns
“They had never been at peace together, they two; and now he felt himself drawn downward into the strange mysterious depths of her tranquillity.”
Source: The House of Mirth
“They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“They had never met a real stardog, believing they were only a myth.”
Source: The Last Stardog
“They had never promised each other every lifetime, every universe, every possible arrangement of atoms. Those are in infinite supply, and they are two girls. But they are two girls whose blood runs with the heat of exploding stars, even as it drips down their knuckles. They are two girls whose souls reach for each other and ignore probability and infinity. They are two girls who crash together and touch each other gently.
They have each other’s names carved into their bones and each other’s fingerprints tattooed on their ligaments and they breathe in time with the other’s heartbeat. They would count the steps to hell and freeze it over to save one another and they would burn if there were no other choice.
When the sun goes supernova and solar flares lick across the sky, they will see one another, even if only for an instant, and think, This is almost heaven. And with every instant they have they can read each other like braille with ink-stained fingertips and they are a force of nature if you dare to touch them, learning what happens when a hurricane protects its own.”
Source: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 141, Nos. 1 & 2, July/August 2021
“They had never sat together like this – real coffee in a café; people living normal lives. It’s the small things that matter most, the trivialities, the daily routines. We struggle and dream, strive for purpose and meaning, but ten minutes having coffee with friends in a Spanish café. These are the things that make us human, the things we remember.”
Source: We Shall Pass
“They had never struggled, and only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.”
Source: Maurice
“They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the drawing-room at Uppercross, they would have found it most difficult to cease to speak to one another. With the exception, perhaps, of Admiral and Mrs. Croft, who seemed particularly attached and happy, (Anne could allow no other exception even among the married couples) there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so simliar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become aquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.”
Source: Persuasion
“They had no idea how strong she could be”
Source: The Last Piece
“They had no idea who I really was.” He leans in close again. “But you knew, didn’t you, Ava? You’ve always known. Maybe that’s why I’ve always been so drawn to you. Always wanted to get inside you, because you’ve always been inside me.”
Source: Tragic Beauty
“They had no need of one of those pacts of the kind that are in common among boys of their age, who swear friendship with comical solemn rituals and the sort of portentous intensity invoked by people when for the first time they experience, in unconscious and distorted form, the need to remove another human being from the world, body and soul, and make him uniquely theirs. For that is the hidden force within both friendship and love. Their friendship was deep and wordless, as are all the emotions that will last a lifetime. And like all great emotions, this one contained within itself both shame and a sense of guilt, for no one may isolate one of his fellows from the rest of humanity with impunity.”
Source: Embers
“They had no past. They had no future. They just were.”
“They had not buried her. They had planted a seed.”
Source: The Last Carolingian: Phoenix of Francia: A Modern Scholar's Fight for Survival and a Kingdom
“They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.”
“They had nothing in common but the English language.”
Source: Howards End
“They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.”
“They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?”
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.”
“They had perfected their team nagging to a level where they no longer had to confer and felt they would be wasting their talents if they only admonished their own children.”
Source: Danse Macabre
“They had picked up Julie's scent hit wolfsbane lost her and found her trail again at the crumbling Highway 23 except it was two hours old and mixed with horse scents. She was hitchhiking. Great. Awesome. At least she always carried a knife with her. When I relayed this to Curran he shrugged and said, "If she kills anybody we'll make it go away.”
Source: Magic Slays
“They had placed the hospital on a flat lot on the tip of the peninsula, against the North Atlantic Ocean with the fjords in the back.”
Source: Julebord: The Holiday Party
“They had pulled me from the hemorrhaging, dying body of my mother and turned me over to the care of the man who was not my father. He had taken me home to their tiny apartment above the old hardware store and done what little he knew to take care of me.
It took less than six weeks for him to realize his mistake. Maybe even less than six hours, but he never abandoned me. He clung to me as though I was the last remnant of some great and powerful love.
And that gave me hope that maybe my mother was really something else and not just some girl who got knocked up by a guy whose name she didn’t even know. She was something special, someone worthy of a man’s loyalty and devotion.
--Rocky Evans”
Source: Filter