T Quotes
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“They mutilate they torment each other
with silences with words
as if they had another
life to live
they do so
as if they had forgotten
that their bodies
are inclined to death
that the insides of men
easily break down
ruthless with each other
they are weaker
than plants and animals
they can be killed by a word
by a smile by a look”
“They neared the end of the tunnel, but Nesta paused him with a tug of his hand. 'What?' he asked, scanning the cavern. But she rose onto her toes and kissed him lightly. He blinked with almost comic shock as she pulled away. 'What was that for?'
Nesta shrugged, her cheeks heating. 'Gwyn and Emerie are my friends,' she said quietly. She tucked away her horror that Briallyn had eyes on them. 'But...' She swallowed. 'I think you might be, too, Cassian.'
Cassian's silence was palpable, and she cursed herself for laying bare that wish, that realisation. Wished she could wipe away the words, the stupidity-
'I've always been your friend, Nesta,' he said hoarsely. 'Always.'
She couldn't bear to see what was in his eyes. 'I know.'
Cassian brushed his mouth over her temple...”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“They need a role model. They need a star!”
“They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we're going to continue to help.”
“They need never know how difficult it had been, or how much it had cost her. That was a lesson Melisandre had learned long before Asshai; the more effortless the sorcery appears, the more men fear the sorcerer.”
“They need someone with a sharp wit who enjoys torturing men.”
“I do enjoy torturing you.”
“Just don’t go falling for any of the other guys you’re torturing. You’re my girlfriend.”
“I wouldn’t dream of it.”
Source: Rule 25: Don't Fall For The Target
“They need to be burned for whatever they went through.
And whatever they went through, no one must know. It’s evil. It’s sick. Evil and sick together would only bring chaos.”
Source: The High Auction
“They need to do two things if they’re going to be great and win a championship: take the ball away and keep teams out of the end zone. You have those two things, that’s the recipe for a championship.”
“They need to practice harder," he said. 'If they're really going to do this, they need to work much harder.'
'They will," I assured him. 'But they got better, right?'
Baz laughed. 'Are you going to stand in front of them during their gigs too? If so, make sure you get equal billing. People will pay a lot to see the girl with the broom.”
Source: Five Flavors of Dumb
“They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.”
“They need to show a bit more gut.”
“They needed a reason why a little kid would commit murder, someone or something to point the finger at, and I think they were relieved when they hit upon horror movies as the culprit. But there's no reason a child commits murder, just as there's no reason a child gets lost. What would it be - because his parents weren't watching him? That's not a reason, it's just a step in the process.”
Source: In the Miso Soup
“They needed each other that in that moment. Two children cast in dire straits—opposite, yet so similar. Deep tragedy, near-complete amnesia, feelings of worthlessness, loneliness, and hatred eating both to the core, with no one on their side. In that moment, they discovered that they weren’t alone.
That there was still hope.
Still a chance for forgiveness.”
Source: A Canticle of Two Souls
“They needed it to nurture and that’s when I discovered that I needed failure to realize there’s something I need to modify for something better.”
“They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.”
“They needed this anti-virus. If they could find it, it could make all the difference in the world. They had to hurry, though.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.”
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel
“They needed to know because a choice you make without knowing the consequences isn't any choice at all!”
Source: Lost in the Moment and Found
“They needed to share one secret after another with a beautiful woman, to peel away layer after layer, mask after mask, and still find themselves worshiped.”
Source: Angels
“They needed to stay secret to keep their power.”
“They never acknowledge you when you are broke, poor, struggling, washed out, and suffering. But when you are rich, successful, thriving, and truly happy, they publicly recognize and claim you. They think they are entitled to what you have and everything you have worked hard for. That is exactly what toxic, manipulative, abusive, narcissistic people do.”
“They never ask the celebrities why they don't wear their own clothes on the red carpet.”
“They never asked themselves what they gained by trading income inequality for privilege and power inequality.”
Source: The Greater Good: A Novel of Divided America
“They never cared about children or for universal life.”
“They never clapped when you won because deep down, they wished you didn’t.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“They never clocked me on my way to the end zone. They never caught me because I ran scared.”
“They never delete a thing. It just keeps growing and growing, consuming our lives and turning them into more of itself, an endless stream of inane updates, political rants, selfies, memes . . . And all that dreck’s just gonna stick around, what . . . forever?”
Source: Dreck
“They never did
They never will”
“They never die, who have the future in them.”
“They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be able to say, Someone is coming. I am not alone.”
“They never exhale, the trees; on a very windy day, they rustle and inhale, and then the leaves and the branches all tremble as though something means to strangle the life from them. The sky watches on. The world is filled with anticipation, as if to wonder if this day will be a great day, or a horrible day, or the last day.”
“They never expect the knife.”
“They never fail who die in a great cause.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“They never grow less stupid, men who believe in belief.”
Source: Black Leopard, Red Wolf
“They never held hands. Never kissed in front of anyone. And there were no covert hot glances, either. But then again, Blay was a gentleman. And Saxton the Classy Slut put on a good show.
His cousin was a straight-up whore—”
Source: Lover Unleashed
“They never learn, fish. If they pulled against the line and kept pulling, they'd break it. But they give a tug and wait and hope we've gone away." He winked at her. "Always keep on fighting, Matilda my darlin'. Don't end like a fish.”
“They never let Rider [Strong] and I do scenes together because we would look at each other and start laughing.”
“They never look very big on the table, the bodies. It's built to accommodate the largest frames, there's that. And they're naked. But it's something else. That parcel of the being called the soul-weighing twenty-one grams, according to the experiments of the American doctor Duncan MacDougall-takes up a surprising amount of space, like aloud voice. In its absence, the body seems to shrink”
Source: The High Mountains of Portugal
“They never looked at anyone else, only at each other, with an expression that halted me. It was tender, loving, yes, but in an inhuman way, so intense. Divine, I felt. Or insane.”
“They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.”
Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
“They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.”
“They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.”
“They never played games with each other, they never had tow worry where they stood, because if either of them had a moment of wavering, the other would say I love you and would mean it and all doubts were forgiven because in this one case it was found that love conquers all.”
“They never predict anything fun," Granuaile answered. "Just once I'd like to hear a prophet tell someone, 'Thou shalt win a bitchin' Camaro on a game show.”
Source: Trapped: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Five
“They never recognized the unbearable, so the impossible raised his white flag and surrendered to them.”
“They never said winning was easy.”
Source: The Keys
“They never say this,
but it’s true,
it was raining the first time I saw you.”
“They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright!”
“They never stopped arguing and they never slept apart; he spent an entire working life calculating probabilities and she was the most improbable person he ever met. She turned him upside-down.”
Source: And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
“They never talked about being afraid to die. They talked about how great it would be to see their old friends again, about how they were looking forward to being reunited with their parents, husbands, and wives on the other side of this life. When somebody dies, we miss them, and that feeling never really goes away. We just keep on missing them. The longer you live, the more people you miss, until the idea of dying is less about oh shit, I'm afraid, and more about I'll finally be able to see all my friends again...everyone I've missed so much.”
Source: Together We Will Go