T Quotes
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“They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.”
Source: Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels
“They put on fresh gloves and got back to business. Jazz wiped up the blood splatters in the freezer and tossed the tissues in with Howie’s waste. It bothered him that he was leaving evidence behind without some sort of oxygenated bleach, those blood splatters would still show up under Luminol. Of course, the odds of anyone deciding to spray down the morgue freezer and switch on an ultraviolet light were pretty minimal, so it’s not like it was evidence that anyone would ever find or use. Still: Billy Dent’s First Commandment was “Thou shalt not leave evidence.”
“They put the Jewish interest above America's interest and it's about goddamn time that the Jew in America realizes he's an American first and a Jew second.”
“They put the Negroes in the schools, and now they've driven God out.”
“They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in Rockland State Hospital to discourage homosexual feelings. The effect is that you lose your memory and become a vegetable. You can't read a book because you get to page 17 and have to go right back to page one again.”
“They put their feelers out for all the names and then they'll cast you up to the point a name steps up, and then it doesn't matter how much they love you, there's a certain marketing value on that name, and there you go.”
“They put up this bloke's picture on Crimewatch UK with a phone number and said 'Have you seen this man?' Well my auntie rang them up and said 'No'.”
“They questioned whether any heaven or hell existed apart from this life: heaven was when men laugh and are merry, hell was sorrow, grief and pain.”
Source: The World Turned Upside Down Radical Ideas During The English Revolution
“They radiated that orgasm-free lifestyle so unique and universal among Seabrook women.”
Source: It Happens in the Hamptons
“They raise us to be soft as silk, distract us with luxury and wealth beyond measure, so we never rock the boat that carries us. They expect us to be so bored by our power that we let them do the ruling in our stead. Behind every throne is a masked servant who seeks only to make a puppet of the one who sits on it.”
Source: The Priory of the Orange Tree
“They ran all over Fort Benning. All over kingdom come. Airborne was simply infantry dropped into war without any means of transport. Anywhere you had to go you went on foot, which required men of exceptional endurance. The goal of the first week was to weed out anyone who wasn’t supremely fit. No sense training you to jump if you didn’t have the stamina.”
Source: The Riveter
“they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked trees which promised cooling; they flung themselves into the shade to taste their lip sweat and contemplate the wildness that had come upon them so suddenly”
Source: Sula
“They ranged from bleakly depressing (due to an excess of realism) to highly unlikely (due to an excess of optimism).”
Source: Network Effect
“They rarely discovered a star red as a distant crime or a star-fish.”
Source: Magnetic Fields
“They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“They rather watch us die so they can make money than to save us. Our sufferings and death it is a profitable business to them.”
“They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.”
Source: Death Comes for the Archbishop: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
“They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher.”
Source: The Spirit of Imagination
“They're a pack of dimpled fuckwits and you can tell them I said so.”
Source: The Passenger
“They’re a real pain,” the Indonesian said, gesturing at the bodiless vampires as they flew away in fright. “Wayward women. They should have known it’s more trouble than it’s worth practising that witchcraft.” “Are they demons like you?” My father asked. The man was amused by my father’s question. “They’re not much different like you and I,” he said with a smile.”
Source: A Request For Betrayal: The Constant Companion Tales
“They’re a slow-moving lot, reporters. Slothlike. Weighed down by all that righteous indignation about the freedom of the press and the public’s right to know, not to mention the liquid lunches they see as their constant due. Go out now and you’re playing right into their grasping, ink-stained hands.” He cocked an ear to the door. “I’m doing my best to protect your reputation here. It wouldn’t do to have a serving wench caught in a compromising position with the lord of the manor.”
“You don’t have the cleavage to make a good serving wench, Eli.”
Source: Playing with Fire
“They're academics, surveyors, researchers, not action-hero explorers from the serials I liked because they were unrealistic and not depressing and sordid like reality.”
Source: All Systems Red [Dramatized Adaptation]
“They’re accustomed to seeing the future, Paul thought. In this place and time they’re blind…even as I am. And he sampled the time-winds, sensing the turmoil, the storm nexus that now focused on this moment place. Even the faint gaps were closed now. Here was the unborn jihad, he knew. Here was the race consciousness that he had known once as his own terrible purpose. Here was reason enough for a Kwisatz Haderach or a Lisan al-Gaib or even the halting schemes of the Bene Gesserit. The race of humans had felt its own dormancy, sensed itself grown stale and knew now only the need to experience turmoil in which the genes would mingle and the strong new mixtures survive. All humans were alive as an unconscious single organism in this moment, experiencing a kind of sexual heat that could override any barrier.”
Source: DUNE
“They’re afraid I’ll die,” Prajapati thought. “They’ll always be afraid I’ll die, and they’ll always be trying to kill me.”
Source: Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India
“They're afraid of our ability to hear the stars. [...] And to them it makes us alien.”
Source: Skyward
“They’re after us, Mister Johnny, and it don’t matter if we try to stay out of their way, or we don’t. They ain’t never going to leave us alone. You kill three of them and they try to kill you. You kill three more of them and they kill one of us. When will it end?”
Source: Drink Deep from the Well of Good Intentions
“They're all crazy, Oncat. Invisible armies, monster princes. Let's go set fire to something.”
Source: Ruin and Rising
“They’re all gone now, and there isn’t anything more the sea can do to me. . . . I’ll have no call now to be up crying and praying when the wind breaks from the south, and you can hear the surf is in the east, and the surf is in the west, making a great stir with the two noises, and they hitting one on the other. I’ll have no call now to be going down and getting Holy Water in the dark nights after Samhain, and I won’t care what way the sea is when the other women will be keening.
- Maurya; Riders to the Sea”
Source: The Complete Plays of John M. Synge
“They're all the same-- the cop, the criminal, the defense, the prosecutor-- they all share a fundamental belief in the malleability of truth”
“They’re all waiting for permission. From who? Men? The Church? Their mothers? The version of themselves when they were teens?”
Source: Us, Women
“They’re already married! It’s too late for them to fall in love now!”
Source: Secret Society of Kings, Witches and Spirits
“They’re already there,” Asche said.
“How’d you know?”
“Because we’re late.”
“Oh.”
The corners of Asche’s lips curled. “The important guests always arrive late to the party.”
Source: Ocean's Blood
“They're as tiresome as truthful people. Everything in art should be false. Everything in life should be art. Ergo, everything in life should be false: complexions, teeth, hair, wives ... 'specially wives.”
Source: Twilight Sleep
“They're auras, Davey. I see them, too. The longer you stare at them, the wider the energy field expands until more colors begin to show themselves.”
Source: The Man Who Followed Jack Kerouac
“They're bartering for costumes. Grace has a big heart. She lends costumes to those who can't afford the full rental price. Kids repay her with candy, after they've been trick-or-treating."
Bartering? This he had to see. He walked toward them, only to stop by a rack of capes. He squinted between hangers, staying hidden. He recognized the children. Each of them lived with single parents or in a foster home. For all of them, money would be tight. Most couldn't afford a cool costume.”
Source: The Cottage on Pumpkin and Vine
“They're (Bats) found on every continent except Antarctica, and they account for one in every five mammal species.”
Source: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
“They're blind to a simple truth: complex minds can't develop on their own. If they could, feral children would be like any other. And minds don't grow the way weeds do, flourishing under indifferent attention; otherwise all children in orphanages would thrive. For a mind to even approach its full potential, it needs cultivation by other minds.”
Source: The Lifecycle of Software Objects
“They're both afraid. They look at their children--Alan has four kids, too--and they're afraid and ashamed of their fear, ashamed of their powerlessness. And they're tired. There are millions of people like them--people who are frightened and just plain tired of all the chaos. They want someone to do something. Fix things. Now!”
Source: Parable of the Talents
“They're both convinced
that a sudden passion joined them.
Such certainty is beautiful,
but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
Since they'd never met before, they're sure
that there'd been nothing between them.
But what's the word from the streets, staircases, hallways--
perhaps they've passed by each other a million times?
I want to ask them
if they don't remember--
a moment face to face
in some revolving door?
perhaps a "sorry" muttered in a crowd?
a curt "wrong number" caught in the receiver?
but I know the answer.
No, they don't remember.
They'd be amazed to hear
that Chance has been toying with them
now for years.
Not quite ready yet
to become their Destiny,
it pushed them close, drove them apart,
it barred their path,
stifling a laugh,
and then leaped aside.
There were signs and signals,
even if they couldn't read them yet.
Perhaps three years ago
or just last Tuesday
a certain leaf fluttered
from one shoulder to another?
Something was dropped and then picked up.
Who knows, maybe the ball that vanished
into childhood's thicket?
There were doorknobs and doorbells
where one touch had covered another beforehand.
Suitcases checked and standing side by side.
One night, perhaps, the same dream,
grown hazy by morning.
Every beginning
is only a sequel, after all,
and the book of events
is always open halfway through.”
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
“They're brainless girls, otherwise they wouldn't be seen dead here. They're pretty, with ugly, appealing smiles and conversations we can't hear. They breathe smoke and blow it out, and words drop from their mouths and get crushed to the floor. Or they get discarded, just to glow with warmth for a moment, for someone else to tread on later.”
Source: Fighting Ruben Wolfe
“They're butterflies because...well, he thought it was cool. They eat humans.”
Source: D.Gray-man, Vol. 11
“They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“They're Coming.”
Source: Obliterated: Everything is About To Change
“They’re common, but they’re also beautiful. And the beauty isn’t because of the events, but because they’re beautiful in your eyes,” said Liu-laoshi. “Those who’ll blame everything under the heavens but themselves will think even a blue sky with white clouds is mocking them. For Shen-laoshi, stormy weather is all for helping you temper your will. I’ve always lived with the agony I experienced at my death. Whatever I saw was full of blood. But with Shen-laoshi’s lesson plans for leading people onto the true path and his own views on the world recorded in the notebook, written on my heart, engraved on my very soul, what grudges and resentments can I still have? Over a hundred years have passed. If I still stay tangled up in these little matters of the past, then I truly am blind.”
Source: 他们都说我遇到了鬼 [They All Say I Encountered a Ghost]
“They’re connected,’ he continued, his voice husky. ‘What one sees, they all see. What one experiences, they all feel. And when one finds prey, more follow.’ He swallowed hard. ‘They’re
faster than us, stronger than us, and when there’s more than one you’ve got next to no chance, which is why we have to—’
‘What do they do once they find you?’
His dark eyes fixed on mine, the bad one open just a crack.
‘They feed.”
Source: Anomaly
“They're crystal blue, a shade that shouldn't exist on the human body, I shade I immediately crave, a shade that makes my heart beat a little bit faster--almost as if I recognize it. I want to steal it, paint it, throw it into every room I ever decorate. It's the most perfect blue I've ever seen. Even from this distance his eyes are simply remarkable.”
Source: The Chaos of Stars
“They're dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die.”
Source: Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
“They're dead. We're alive. We have things to do.”
Source: Wither
“They’re delightful,” Belle said, sighing. “I wish I had a dozen of them at home.” “Children?” the Beast said, eyes wide and eyebrows high. "Talking teacups.”
Source: As Old as Time
“They're desperate or crazy or both. That's enough to make anyone dangerous.”
Source: Parable of the Sower