T Quotes
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“This isn’t fair,” Klaus said finally, but he said it so quietly that the departing islanders probably did not hear. Only his sisters heard him, and the snake the Baudelaires thought they would never see again, and of course Count Olaf, who was huddled in the large, ornate bird cage like an imprisoned beast, and who was the only person to answer him. “Life isn’t fair,” he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.”
Source: The End
“This isn't goodbye forever. This is goodbye for now. A clean break for now. I can't do any in between. I don't except you to wait for me. Okay?"
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Source: A False Start
“This isn't goodbye, okay. There are no goodbyes... not between us.”
Source: Effortless
“This isn’t happily ever after.
It’s so much more than that.”
Source: The One
“This isn’t how things were supposed to happen. I was supposed to be me.
Not this.”
Source: Where the Dead Go to Die
“This isn't 'I do something for you, you do something for me'. This is hard-core friendship. Varsity level. This is me asking you to do something for me without getting anything in return. This is friendship, Howie.”
Source: Blood of My Blood
“This isn’t … it isn’t a trick, is it?” Her voice was smaller than she wanted it to be.
The shadow of something dark moved across Kaz’s face. “If it were a trick, I’d promise you safety. I’d offer you happiness. I don’t know if that exists in the Barrel, but you’ll find none of it with me.”
For some reason, those words had comforted her. Better terrible truths than kind lies.”
Source: Six of Crows
“This isn't-" Jean said, turning to her with a dismissive jerk of his hand. His hand went still midair when he got a good look at Jeremy. Jeremy assumed he meant to finish with "normal", but what came out was a startled, "Blond.”
“This isn’t just a book about education. It’s a blueprint for what must come next.”
— Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call”
Source: Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call
“This isn’t just a book.
It’s an oracle.
A scream.
An emotional outpouring
from a soul tired of being a puppet
in this loud, cruel system.”
With love,
— Phoenix Moon”
Source: Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes
“This isn't just a story. This is...a way to understand the world, passed down from person to person, and changing each one on the way. It's the smell, the touch. Books are art that talks to us.”
Source: The Fragments
“This isn’t just about fixing education. It’s about remembering what matters before we forget.”
— Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call”
Source: Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call
“This isn’t just about resisting progress. It’s about refusing to disappear inside it.
The systems rising around us were not built to protect meaning, nuance, or soul.”
— Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call”
Source: Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call
“This isn’t like a job we have while we go to college. This is what we like — feed ourselves with.”
“This isn’t like the nose. That came off, like it was being picked at, pulled, tugged like taffy. This is from the inside. I can feel it when I’m going to sleep. Through the optic nerves. Drinking, gently, slowly, like brandy punch through a straw.”
Source: Helpmeet
“This isn't love. It's something broken and ugly. I wanted it so badly I didn't care what it looked like.”
“This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.”
Source: The Bone Clocks
“This isn't my last brush with catastrophe while making Destination Truth. Rather, it's merely the opening act in a cabaret of close calls, all in the name of exploration. I'm not saying that making D.T. is dangerous; it's not, per se. It's just that when you go out of your way to find adventure, sometimes adventure bites you on the ass. The key is figuring out how to walk away in one piece.”
Source: Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter
“This isn't on you,' he told her.
It was nothing more than wicked coincidence. UCAs got made most often by cops or prosecutors who recognized them.”
Source: Personal Injuries
“This isn't one of your movies, Father, this is real life. There are not a bevy of directors, writers, actors, designers and editors to set this film. It is yours alone.”
Source: The Gilded Life of Matilda Duplaine
“This isn’t over, Sylvia. I’ll leave you now, but I’m watching. I will not let that bastard hurt you.” I said this just as I reached the door. As she shut the door I heard a strangled whisper, “No, you’re perfectly capable of doing that on your own.”
Source: Across The Hall
“This isn’t right. This isn’t who I am supposed to be.
How do you know? it whispers back. If you would allow yourself to think clearly for one single moment, you would know. You would know everything you have been trying not to be.”
Source: Bear, Otter, and the Kid
“This isn't sex."
I blinked. "Oh. Then what is it?"
"An emergency!"
I started to argue and then thought twice about it. Considering what Mircea would do to Pritkin if he ever found out about this...Yeah. Emergency sounded good.”
Source: Curse the Dawn
“This isn't so bad, is it?" Claire asked softly, arms going around Erica's waist. "We're all here, we're healthy, we're getting on. Sort of.
~ Surviving Christmas With The Family”
“This isn't some poltergeist that needs to be exorcised, Dani. Like I told you, it's a living, breathing energy, trying to be the top dog.”
“This isn't some trashy romance novel where you get that crappy insta-love. There's no supernatural pull from the fates demanding we be together as soul mates for all of eternity while fighting off the bad guys. Love takes time. It takes work. It's not just something you throw yourself into because if you do it right, you'll only ever have to fall in love once. I only intend to fall in love once, and when I do, I won't be falling in two weeks time.”
Source: The Love Game
“This isn’t the Day of Judgment. This is the day of great mercy. The Day of Judgment is in His hands. The day of mercy is in ours. All of us who received His forgiveness have done so because of His mercy. All we’re praying is, “God, I know I’m no better than the people of this city. Please show them the same undeserved mercy You’ve shown to me.” God longs to extend His mercy to people who no longer recognize the difference between their right hand and their left. (See Jonah 4:11.) That is not a derogatory remark about their intelligence. Far from it. It’s a statement about the ability of the majority to distinguish between right and wrong.”
Source: God is Good: He's Better Than You Think
“This isn’t the end. This isn’t over, not by a long shot. I’m going to make these people pay. One way or another, they’re going to pay.”
Source: Betrayal In Black
“This isn't the first time you two are meeting, is it?"
He didn't answer that. That wasn't his to tell. Ashna would tell her family and China in her own time, if at all. He just had to do this.
China dropped into a chair, then jumped up again. A whole new wave of understanding suffusing her face. "That's why you asked to be on the show. Oh God, you're Frederick Wentworthing her."
He shouldn't know what that meant but he totally did. "I'm half agony, half hope, Ms. Dashwood." He tried to shrug, but she looked in his eyes and her whole face turned into a giant awwww.
She pressed her hands into her face. "You can't do that to me. You can't quote Persuasion to me."
It was his mother's favorite book. It's where his name had come from. "Listen. I'm not going to force her to do anything. I'm just going to ask, and if she says no, I won't pressure her. I promise."
"Why do I get the feeling you're pretty sure she won't say no?"
"As I said, half agony, half hope.”
Source: Recipe for Persuasion
“This isn’t the last night, and the next person to act like Ven is going to disappear tomorrow is getting an axe to the neck.”
“Typical Vold,” Andel muttered. “Jumping straight to an axe to the neck when a simple ‘please’ might have sufficed.”
Vale chuckled, drawing a few surprised looks. He shrugged. “I don’t think you’ve ever said that word. I don’t think any of us have.”
“Not true,” Andel defended. “Half a decade ago I asked you all to please die for good and leave me to eternal peace.”
“You’re right,” Fjor muttered dully. “Manners make all the difference.”
Source: A World of Lost Words
“This isn’t the last time that you’re going to get knocked down, so don’t make it the last time that you’re going to get up.”
“This isn’t the lunch I’d planned for myself,” Babette said. “I was seriously thinking yogurt and wheat germ.”
“Where have we heard that before?” Denise said.
“Probably right here,” Steffie said.
“She keeps buying that stuff.”
“But she never eats it,” Steffie said.
“Because she thinks if she keeps buying it, she’ll have to eat it just to get rid of it. It’s like she’s trying to trick herself.”
“It takes up half the kitchen.”
“But she throws it away before she eats it because it goes bad,” Denise said. “So then she starts the whole thing all over again.”
“Wherever you look,” Steffie said, “there it is.”
“She feels guilty if she doesn’t buy it, she feels guilty if she buys it and doesn’t eat it, she feels guilty when she sees it in the fridge, she feels guilty when she throws it away.”
“It’s like she smokes but she doesn’t,” Steffie said.”
Source: White Noise
“This isn’t the medieval era, my lord. I’ll be damned if I need to put on a dog-and-pony show with a peer as part of a business deal.”
“Speaking as the other half of the dog-and-pony show,” Westcliff said sardonically, “I’m not fond of the idea either.”
Source: Scandal in Spring
“This isn't the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer.”
“This isn't the time for bravado, Mr. Orsini,' he said.
Brentford couldn't help himself. 'No, it isn't,' he said. 'Perhaps you could come back later?”
Source: Luminous Chaos
“This isn't the work of our people, Delilah. It's a corruption of power. The gods are neutral, good and evil manifests in the deeds of mortals.'
'Or, just maybe-- The power is our own and the credit horribly misplaced.”
Source: Rat Queens, Vol. 2: The Far Reaching Tentacles of N'rygoth
“This isn’t then though. This is my hometown. A place where your business aired to the public, and often before the newspaper ever got a hold of it. A place where a façade was an art.”
Source: Slayers
“This isn't to deny that there were fierce arguments, at the time and ever since, about the causes and goals of both the Civil War and the Second World War. But 1861 and 1941 each created a common national narrative (which happened to be the victors' narrative): both wars were about the country's survival and the expansion of the freedoms on which it was founded. Nothing like this consensus has formed around September 11th.... Indeed, the decade since the attacks has destroyed the very possibility of a common national narrative in this country.”
“This isn't Tokyo.”
Source: Magic Knight Rayearth I, Vol. 1
“This isn’t what I wanted for your moving daybut this is what it’s like to be black in this country or anywhere in the world. They interrupt our joy. Our history. Our progress. They know they can’t stop us unless they kill us but they can’t kill us all,so you’re living your life and suddenly interrupted by white fear or suspicion. They fear sharing anything. Our success is a threat.”
Source: The Black Flamingo
“this isn’t what i wanted
i thought i needed you
until i realized
that you never deserved me”
Source: Algedonic
“This isn’t what I wanted to be, I never thought that what I said would
have you running from me”
“This isn’t what thirty is supposed to look like. It’s not what thirty is supposed to feel like. By thirty, you’re supposed to have things figured out, aren’t you? You’re not supposed to be questioning everything you’ve built your life on.”
Source: After I Do
“This isn't where I intended to be. Killing a person has a funny way of getting your life off-track.”
“This isn't where I intended to be. Killing a person has a funny way of getting your life off-track. (Dark City Lights)”
“This isn’t your fault, you know. It really isn’t. You’ll get through this.”
Source: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
“This isn't your fight, Patch," I said quietly.
His eyes burned with an intensity I'd never seen before. "You're mine, Angel, and don't you forget it. Your fights are my fights. What if something had happened today? It was bad enough when I thought your ghost was haunting me; I don't think I could handle the real thing.”
Source: Silence
“This isn't a Christmas special! This is my life. In the real world, miracles and goodness just don't happen.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.”
Source: Three Beastly Kendra Chronicles: Beastly, Lindy's Diary, Bewitching
“This isn't a game for me. I love you, Ivy, and one day you're going to believe me.”
Source: Kissed by an Angel