T Quotes
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“They sat as if in the shadow of their own fate...”
“They sat at their kitchen table and scrolled the day's news and ate sourdough toast and were very much like a living endorsement for marriage.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“They sat eating ham sandwiches and fresh strawberries and waxy oranges and Mr. Tridden told them how it had been twenty years ago, the band playing on that ornate stand at night, the men pumping air into their brass horns, the plump conductor flinging perspiration from his baton, the children and fireflies running in the deep grass, the ladies with long dresses and high pompadours treading the wooden xylophone walks with men in choking collars. There was the walk now, all softened into a fiber mush by the years. The lake was silent and blue and serene, and fish peacefully threaded the bright reeds, and the motorman murmured on and on, and the children felt it was some other year, with Mr. Tridden looking wonderfully young, his eyes lighted like small bulbs, blue and electric. It was a drifting, easy day, nobody rushing, and the forest all about, the sun held in one position, as Mr. Tridden's voice rose and fell, and a darning needle sewed along the air, stitching, restitching designs both golden and invisible. A bee settled into a flower, humming and humming. The trolley stood like an enchanted calliope, simmering where the sun fell on it. The trolley was on their hands, a brass smell, as they ate ripe cherries. The bright odor of the trolley blew from their clothes on the summer wind.”
Source: Dandelion Wine
“They sat in companionable silence, sipping their tea.”
Source: Night Music
“They sat in silence, and George found their aversion to speaking welcome. Other than his wife [Isabelle], they seemed like the only individuals he'd come upon in some time who would rather leave a moment naked than tar it with wasted words.”
Source: The Sweetness of Water
“They sat in silence for a moment. Then Jenna said," The son of a god, huh? That explains a lot."
He raised an eyebrow. "Oh?"
Jenna smirked at him, a mischievous look in her sparkling blue eyes. "You know, the whole super strong, ridiculously gorgeous thing. But obviously you've been told that a lot over the years. I don't expect it means much anymore."
A voice far in the back of head said something faint about bad ideas, but he hit it with a large mental stick until it sputtered and shut up.
"It depends on who says it," he answered, and bent his head down and kissed her.”
Source: Dangerously Charming
“they sat in the absence of her confession. each understanding the other. each completely alone in that understanding.”
Source: Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“They sat in the little diningroom and ate. She'd put on music, a violin concerto. The phone didnt ring.
Did you take it off the hook?
No, she said.
Wires must be down.
She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think.
Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.
Do you remember the last time it snowed here?
No, I cant say as I do. Do you?
Yes I do.
When was it.
It'll come to you.
Oh.
She smiled. They ate.”
Source: No Country for Old Men
“They sat it "Rains Blood" at scenes of battle... you truly...make blood rain”
“They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in the sun. What do you want to do? said the kid. Get a drink of water. Other than that. I dont know. You want to try and head back? To Texas? I don't know where else. We'd never make it. Well you say. I aint got no say. He was coughing again. He held his chest with his good hand and sat as if he'd get his breath. What have you got, a cold? I got consumption. Consumption? He nodded. I come out here for my health.”
Source: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
“They sat on fold-up beach chairs and were talking about polio. The older ones, like his grandmother, had lived through the city's 1916 epidemic and were lamenting the fact that in the intervening years science had been unable to find a cure for the disease or come up with an idea of how to prevent it. Look at Weequahic, they said, as clean and sanitary as any section in the city, and it's the worst hit. There was talk, somebody said, of keeping the colored cleaning women from coming to the neighborhood for fear that they carried the polio germs up from the slums. Somebody else said that in his estimation the disease was spread by money, by paper money passing from hand to hand. The important thing, he said, was always to wash your hands after you handled paper money or coins. What about the mail, someone else said, you don't think it could be spread by the mail? What are you going to do, somebody retorted, suspend delivering the mail? The whole city would come to a halt.”
Source: Nemesis
“They sat on the back porch and looked at the stars while Zombie told the story of a queen named Cassiopeia who lived forever on a throne in the sky.
“But her throne’s tilted down,” Sam said, looking at the constellation. “Won’t she fall out?”
Zombie cleared his throat. “She won’t fall. Her throne is turned that way so she can keep watch over her realm.”
“What’s a realm?”
Zombie pressed his hand against Sam’s chest.
“This is.” Zombie’s hand to Sam’s heart. “Here.”
Source: The Last Star
“They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“They sat quietly together for a few minutes, Joe holding Fiona's hand, Fiona sniffling. No flowery words, no platitudes passed between them. Joe would have done anything to ease her suffering, but he knew nothing he might do, or say, could. Her grief would run its course, like a fever, and release her when it was spent. He would not shush her or tell her it was God's will and that her da was better off. That was rubbish and they both knew it. When something hurt as bad as this, you had to let it hurt. There were no shortcuts.”
“They sat there, the air like ice, Everleigh's Ayane wig When I'm older, I'm gonna dye it purple for real!) and Maura's Super Mario mask (I can't breathe in this thing!) cast aside, eating ever one of their collective peanut butter cups. It felt indulgent. Fun. They licked the chocolate from their fingertips. They threw the paper cups across the floor. They feasted. And then there was just one package left, a full-sized score, two final cups inside. They lifted them, and then, as if they were older, an age Everleigh would never live to see, they clinked them together like glasses of champagne, dinging the chocolate, a toast to themselves.
"Let's do this every year," Everleigh declared.
"I'm in," Maura agreed, mouth full.
"I mean it! Promise. As long as one of us wants to go."
"Of course we will. Always."
It was the happiest they'd ever been.”
Source: Aftertaste
“They sat under a walnut tree on wooden benches draped with kilims and soon the table was covered with small dishes of yogurt, olives cured with angelica, eggplant and whey cooked to a silky paste, piles of basil, cilantro, and tarragon, and a pitcher of doogh, the tangy yogurt drink spiked with mint”
Source: The Last Days of Café Leila
“They saw a smuggler in the shadows, but I was crafting a legacy in silence—one that even time cannot steal”
Source: FREDMOND KING-1940 : THE SMUGGLER
“They saw her husband, this giant of a man in God’s Kingdom, this man, that for over fifteen years was their example of what a great man and husband looked like, walking up to his weeping wife, gently embracing her, soothing her, lifting and holding her soul up high while she released her own pains and worries from the last two days, feeling him, leaning into him, and submitting her pain and fears to her husband out of her love and trust. His strength was shown in his softness. He was made strong in his wife’s pain. He was her man of God”
Source: A Wrath Like Thunder
“They saw him walk away, leave a world he'd never really been part of. They saw him pull his hat down low and get onto his bike. He forgot the Walkman's earplugs. Maybe, Anna thought, he didn't need them anymore; maybe the white noise had finally made it into his head.”
Source: The Storyteller
“They saw me. Milton's smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a boondoggle, born fool. He was going to pull a Danny Zuko in Grease when Sandy says hello to him in front of the T-Birds, a Mrs. Robinson when she tells Elaine she didn't seduce Benjamin, a Daisy when she chooses Tom with the disposition of a sour kiwi over Gatsby, a self-made man, a man engorged with dreams, who didn't mind throwing a pile of shirts around a room if he wanted too.
My heart landslided. My legs earthquaked.”
Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
“They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.”
“They saw their injured country's woe.”
Source: The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)
“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
Source: The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)
“They say "Wine is Satan's falcon,"; apparently he uses it in hunting men!”
“They say "ya gotta stay hungry"... Hey Baby...I'm just about starvin' tonight!”
“They say "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." In the Marine Corps, you can make that horse wish to hell he had.”
“They say 'expect the worst.' I say 'Expect the best and even better will happen.'”
“They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.”
“They say 'life is precious'. To who? To you, when you're young and you've got a few dollars in your pocket. Tell that to the 90-year-old lying awake at the graveyard shift in the nursing home, groaning with dementia. The only reason he hasn't killed himself is that he hasn't figured out a way he can do it with pudding.”
“They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times.”
Source: Good in Bed: A Novel
“They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.”
“They say 74% of everything you're learning in college is a bunch of bullshit you'll never need 83.4% of everything you've got, you bought to satisfy you're greed Because 91% of the world's population links their pssessions to success Even though 88% of the wealthiest 1% of the population drinks to an alarming excess More money more stress.”
“They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.”
“They say a chain's strength is defined by its weakest link. Love is similar: it fortifies you when present, but shatters you the moment it leaves.”
“They say a girl with an ill-fated mother is doomed to follow in her footsteps.”
“They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of the head. But I say a good love is one that casts you into the wind, sets you ablaze, makes you burn through the skies and ignite the night like a phoenix; the kind that cuts you loose like a wildfire and you can't stop running simply because you keep on burning everything that you touch! I say that's a good love; one that burns and flies, and you run with it!”
“They say a good man is worth fighting for. But a man who's good for YOU shouldn't make you fight just for the right to be in his life.”
“They say a happy childhood is a lousy preparation for life. Kids who spend their playground days fat, ginger or gay know the truth.”
Source: Outpost
“They say a happy childhood is a lousy preparation for life. Kids who spend their playground days fat, ginger or gay know the truth. The world has always been full of vicious predators. For plenty of people this carnage and savagery is business as usual.”
Source: Outpost
“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”
Source: Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)
“They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.”
“They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time. . . I don't know about that. It seems to me that the person you are when you're about to die isn't as important as the person you are during the rest of your life. Why should a few moments matter more than an entire lifetime?”
Source: Warbreaker
“They say a man should be judged by his enemies. I am very proud of mine.”
“They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.”
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
Source: As Far As You Can Go Without a Passport: The View from the End of the Road : Comments and Comic Pieces
“They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. I say its closer to 675 or 700.”
“They say a picture tells a thousand words, but photographs reveal only a small part of the real story about a person.”
Source: Repercussions: DUET stories Volume IV - Adult Version
“They say a smile is worth a thousand words, but Dan Armstrong was speechless.”
Source: Hotel Miramar: An Old Castle Novel
“They say a story loses something with each telling.”
“They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.”