T Quotes
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“They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.”
Source: Letters of Marcel Proust
“They like the places where we hurt. They use it against us.
The words of the girl, my other self from the dream place, strikes with sudden understanding. The places where we hurt. Where we hurt. Not just me, all of us, colored folk everywhere, who carry our wounds with us, sometimes open for all to see, but always so much more buried and hidden deep. I remember the songs that come with all those visions. Songs full of hurt. Songs full of sadness and tears. Songs pulsing with pain. A righteous anger and cry for justice.
But not hate.
They ain't the same thing. Never was. These monsters want to pervert that. Turn it to their own ends. Because that's what they do. Twist you all up so that you forget yourself. Make you into something like them. Only I can't forget, because all those memories always with me, showing me the way.”
Source: Ring Shout
“They like the words but not the speaker.”
“They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.”
Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.”
“They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.”
“They like to use those fancy words. They don't like to say “raped,'” he said. “They say “misdeed,' “inappropriate touching,' “mistake.' That's insulting. I'm not a mistake.”
Source: In the Shadow of the Cross: The True Account of My Childhood Sexual and Ritual Abuse at the Hands of a Roman Catholic Priest
“They like you more when you don't challenge them. They prefer to have an upper hand over you.”
“They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately.”
“They linger near the back door, forehead to forehead and curved like statues as their lips whisper and brush together.”
Source: Fade
“They lingered by a stall that sold scarves that shimmered like the sky--- you could see sunset spread across the fabric, deepening from pale blue to rose and orange, then to deep blue scattered with stars. Jack wrapped one around Calisa's shoulders, and she held the fabric up to her eyes, watching it twinkle between her fingers.
"Beautiful," she said.
"Yes," he agreed.
He was looking at her, not the scarf.”
Source: The Faraway Inn
“They linked arms with him in a way K. had never walked with anyone before”
Source: The Trial
“They listened to them screaming down from the sky. One…two…three…four very close – five and six, thank goodness, receding. Then there was another plane and another – it can’t go on like this, thought Anna, but it did.”
Source: Bombs on Aunt Dainty by Judith Kerr
“They lit her wings with the flames, but she raised to the sky soaring over the clouds until the whole sky caught fire. She flew staring at the destruction with her cold eyes, while the clouds came down as the balls of fire and burnt everyone, who tried to take her wings away into ashes.”
“They literally have what they would call "a four-quadrant" movie that they could just release at any moment. Parents want to go there, kids want to go there, hipsters want to go there. It's like everyone will want to see it.”
“They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.”
Source: The Broken Kingdoms
“They live ill who expect to live always.”
“they live in a different state –
a state of mind”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“They live in a world that was created by somebody else, or they create a world for themselves. It can be a world of violence, a world of antisocial behavior, a world of crime. Hulan Hanna, Former Assistant Commissioner of Police with the Royal Bahamas Police Force.”
Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five
“They live inside of what is essentially one huge wearable. Everyone connected to everyone even when they shit.”
Source: Edge of Dark
“They live their day to day existence in their confined environment by passing the time either sitting around the dayroom, reading, drawing, painting, watching television, listening to music, doing puzzles, or sleeping in the dormitory. Quite often patients sit near the windows and stare outside to a world that seems both foreign and out of reach to them. Some just sit on the floor, while leaning against the wall, due to a limited amount of proper seating.”
Source: No Hope For The Hopeless At Kings Park
“They live too long who happiness outlive.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume IX: Plays: The Indian Emperour, Secret Love, Sir Martin Mar-all
“They live, we sleep, we starve, they eat. You must comply with their deceit, don't trust the wolves to guard the sheep. They'll colonize when you close your eyes into a superpower that will never die.”
Source: Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files
“They lived and laughed and loved and left.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)
“They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.”
Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel
“They lived in a sun-faded trailer on what felt like the edge of the world,
where the sky pressed so close that it seemed possible to reach out and touch it. But it also seemed possible to suffocate from it weighing down on them.”
Source: The Westerners: An Aether Gun Story
“They lived in a world of destruction and fortuitous death. All was chance, and it was not even the Devil who threw the dice, for he was part of the fairy-tale and perished with it. It had hardly been worth while to pick a bone with it, for the only thing to quarrel with was one's own credulity in having ever believed a tale that broke down at so many points when put to the test. Year by year boys fresh from school joined in the dance of death, and sweltered in the reeking, stinking heat, when they should have been playing cricket or swimming in cool waters, and they got trench-fever and were gassed, and young limbs swift to run and ripe for love were gashed by bullets and sawn off in hospitals. The fate of the world rested on their shoulders: they were the bewildered scapegoats who were driven out into this desert of death, to expiate the criminal pride and folly of those who had been in charge of world-affairs while they were yet unbreeched. Save for rare moments of panic, they maintained a cheerful carelessness, a studied unconsciousness of the surrounding horror, for to think about it, to realize it and speak of it was to go mad. A few went mad, and with bandaged eyes awaited the volley they would never hear. The rest carried on, dumb and gallant, saying nothing, except in a few blurted words to a friend, of that smouldering focus of resentment and despair.”
Source: As We Are
“They lived in rural Michigan in the pre-automobile age, and for the most part they had never been fifty miles away from the farm or the dusty village streets; yet once, ages ago, they had been everywhere and had seen everything, and nothing that happened to them thereafter meant anything much. All that was real had taken place when they were young; everything after that had simply been a process of waiting for death, which did not frighten them much -- they had seen it inflicted in the worst possible way on boys who had not bargained for it, and they had enough of the old-fashioned religion to believe without any question that when they passed over they would simply be rejoining men and ways of living which they had known long ago.”
Source: Mr. Lincoln's Army
“They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.”
Source: Red Mars
“They lived long that have lived well.”
“They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.”
Source: Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“They lived the slow and invisible interpenetration of their universes, like two stars gravitating around a common axis, in ever tighter orbits, whose clear destiny is to coalesce at some point in space and time.”
“They lived their lives only for the hour that lay ahead of them.”
Source: Bel Canto
“They lived, though simply, richly, if rich means a good cup of coffee.”
Source: Ava's Man
“They lived with us. Maybe there were twenty or more. At one time I counted 28.”
Source: Wonders in Dementialand: An Artist's Intimate and Whimsical Account of Dementia, Memory Loss, Caregiving and Dancing Gypsies
“They’ll ask you, child,
what you know of suffering.
They’ll ask you where it hurts
the most, when the pain changes
like wavelengths of light
in the evening sky”
“They'll come a time - in fact many times - when all the tools & techniques will fail you or desert you. Then - at last - is the moment to trust, use & follow your heart”
“They'll come around. You watch what happens the next time someone co-opt that symbol. People know now, it stands for courage. It stands for Hope. It stands for Superman. and the whole world will remember that.”
Source: Superman: Birthright
“They'll die in overtime”
“They'll even marry an aging spinster to get it."
She hated him then. Hated the words, the way he spoke them with such simple cruelty. Tears threatened.”
Source: A Rogue by Any Other Name
“They’ll explain why you can’t be autistic by producing the very evidence you would use to prove that you are — how smart you are, how social you are, your expert and intense eye contact, your terrific grades and amazing knowledge about niche subjects, your charm during social events. All things that were hard-fought parts of your masked identity.”
Source: The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
“They'll lighten the mist from mountains to sea New beginnings -- New ends.....
But nothing comes free" (176)”
“They'll never know we were here.”
Source: Train
“They'll never take me back to Denazen. I would kill a thousand if I needed to."
He nodded to Dez. "And for her?"
For her. To keep Dez from going to that place? "For her, I'd kill a million.”
Source: Untouched
“They'll pass judgment until the day she is dead
Like she needs yet another voice in her head
She expected more advice, though, so I said
Nothing... I listened... something she'd never had”
“They'll probably put that on my gravestone. 'He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations.”
“They'll probably put that on my gravestone. 'He Was Heterosexul and Had Low Expectations.”
“They'll probably say I'm crazy or even mad, and maybe they're right—I should have kept my distance. There were so many things I wanted to say, truths I wanted to share, but I knew they would only cause pain. So instead, I buried those thoughts deep inside and let the pain consume me. No matter how much I tried to explain, it wouldn't have made a difference. I couldn't even understand the turmoil within myself, so how could I possibly make them understand? As time passes, I find myself growing weaker, but with that weakness comes a strange relief. The less I remember, the less I can be hurt. The fading memories bring a certain numbness, and with it, the suffering begins to fade too.”