T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“This was what humans fumbled for. This was what they quested for in the dark.”
Source: Werewolves of Brooklyn
“This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened - the stories on my mind weren't that funny.”
Source: Paper Towns
“This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories.”
Source: Paper Towns
“This was what I was learning that day: in a life of faith, you are not always going to be comfortable. In fact, most acts of faith are not comfortable ones to take, but you can always be content. [...] You can be content even when you are not comfortable.”
Source: Live
“This was what I was supposed to want. This was what everything had always told me I was supposed to want.
Supposed to want.”
Source: All Systems Red
“This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.”
“This was what love was. It was total. It brought her together with everything. Anna barely cared if she made it home before someone would notice her missing. She wanted to feel like this forever—exactly this, this soft and fragrant and friendly morning, with the feel of Ariadne still on her skin. Her future, so confused before, was clear. She would be with Ariadne forever. They would travel the world, fight side by side.”
Source: Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“This was what men fought for, what men died for: a chance at life, and to fight on other days - the battle of your choice, of the body, or the heart, or the soul.”
Source: The Sacred Band
“This was what she couldn't get enough of, not if she lived forever: Harry on her skin, Harry's grateful kisses on her neck, Harry and Olive, teeming and sated, brimming over with each other, as if this house and this world had been built by God's hands for their love alone.”
Source: The Forgotten Room
“This was what she needed… the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.”
Source: Mortal Danger
“This was what the universities were turning out nowadays. The science-is-a-sacred-cow boys. People who believe you could pour mankind into a test-tube and titrate it, and come up with all the answers to the problems of the human race.”
“This was what they’d been told all along in the army: “It’s us or them. War’s coming. No way around it.” And now the day had come, and in Alex’s eyes it felt not just inevitable but right.”
Source: The Russian Gladiator: A Psychological Dystopian Thriller Set in Modern Russia
“This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.”
“This was what was wrong with me. All this time I had been trying to figure out the secrets of the universe, the secrets of my own body, of my own heart. All of the answers had always been so close and yet I had always fought them without even knowing it. From the minute I'd met Dante, I had fallen in love with him. I just didn't let myself know it, think it, feel it. My father was right. And it was true what my mother said. We all fight our own private wars.”
Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“This was what was wrong with me. All this time I had been trying to find the secrets of the universe, the secrets of my own body, of my own heart. All of the answers had always been so close and yet I had always forgotten them without even knowing it”
Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“This was what we did as a species, after all: we built ingenious devices, and we destroyed things.”
Source: To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
“This was when he first suspected that the kindly child-loving God extolled by his headmistress might not exist. As it turned out, most major world events suggested the same. But for Theo’s sincerely godless generation, the question hasn’t come up. No one in his bright, plate-glass, forward-looking school ever asked him to pray, or sing an impenetrable cheery hymn. There’s no entity for him to doubt. His initiation, in front of the TV, before the dissolving towers, was intense but he adapted quickly. These days he scans the papers for fresh developments the way he might a listings magazine. As long as there’s nothing new, his mind is free. International terror, security cordons, preparations for war — these represent the steady state, the weather. Emerging into adult consciousness, this is the world he finds.”
“This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.”
“This was when I learned that you have to give up your life as you know it to get a new one: that sometimes you need to let go of everything you're clinging to and start over, whether because you've outgrown it or because it's not working anymore, or because it was wrong for you in the first place.”
Source: If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
“This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.”
“This was when the aging smokestacks atop the monumental factories began to shut off one by one. There were still plenty left running to keep the air over Detroit filled with that choking industrial aptitude, but you were never far from a hollowed-out factory, massive steel tubes on the roofs pointing up toward the sky with nothing left inside but dust and cobwebs. These giant pillars of concrete and metal now jutted high like extended index fingers from broken and casted hands, pointing toward something they would never touch.”
Source: TITLE 13: A Novel
“This was where his happiness lay, to sit in the great library and to read all things.”
Source: Reigning Cats and Dogs
“This was where I’d always found peace. The ocean was my drug of choice.”
Source: Lowcountry Boil
“This was where wanting to touch his forehead, wantin to see if it felt as smooth as it looked like, had gotten me; this was where it all came out. My eyes were all the way open, and I saw I was livin with a loveless, pitiless man who believed anything he could reach with his arms and grasp with his hands was his to take, even his own daughter.”
Source: Dolores Claiborne
“This was where war happened, in someone’s backyard. Sometimes it was yours. Often, it was someone’s a world away. But it did happen. In this moment. In the next breath. Every day.
Every day, someone lived in the midst of destruction and chaos. Every day, someone’s flower boxes filled with gunpowder’s haze, a child’s laughter turned to tears. There had been a day when someone watered those flowers in the evening’s peaceful quiet and the children caught fireflies in mason jars. And that day will come again, when the crickets and the bullets no longer have to compete for the night’s stage. But for now, all anyone could do was fight on the crickets’ behalf.”
“This was where Zoya had been seen sneaking off to all those nights—not to a lover, but to this monument to grief. This was where she had shed her tears, away from curious eyes, where no one could see her armor fall. And here, the Grisha might live forever, every friend lost, every soldier gone.
“I know what I did is unforgivable,” she said. Nikolai blinked, confused.
“No doubt you deserve to be punished for your crimes … but for what precisely?”
She cast him a baleful look. “I lost our most valuable prisoner. I’ve allowed our most deadly enemy to regain his powers and … run amok.”
“‘Amok’ seems an overstatement. Wild, perhaps.”
“Don’t pretend to shrug this off. You’ve barely looked at me since I returned.”
Because I am greedy for the sight of you. Because the prospect of facing this war, this loss, without you fills me with fear. Because I find I don’t want to fight for a future if I can’t find a way to make a future with you.
But he was a king and she was his general and he could say none of those things.”
Source: Rule of Wolves
“This was why he liked me so much. When I jumped on top of him, my knees on his chest, he couldn't ask for anything better.”
Source: A Separate Peace
“This was why I hated beautiful people. They build you up and then they destroy you. And we let 'em.”
Source: The Assassin's Curse
“This was why I loved my Grana. Being with her always made me laugh. She accepted life for what it was. She didn’t pretend or put on airs. She was just Grana.”
Source: The Vincent Boys
“This was why I was here. This was why I would take whatever reception waited for me when I got back. Because, underneath all the anger and the sarcasm, Jacob was in pain. Right now, it was very clear in his eyes. I didn't know how to help him, but I knew I had to try. It was more than that I owed him. It was because his pain hurt me, too. Jacob had become a part of me, and there was no changing that now.”
“This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.”
Source: On Beauty
“This was why love was terrible idea: it made you weak. And there was no one in the world as powerful as me.”
Source: The Heir
“This was why people got mated, Rehv suddenly thought. Fuck the sex and the social position. If they were smart, they did it to make a house that had no walls and an invisible roof and a floor that no could walk on-and yet the structure was a shelter no storm could blow down, no match could torch up, no passage of years could degrade.
That was when it hit him. A mated bond like that helped you through shit nights like this.”
Source: Lover Avenged
“This was why Veronyka had wanted to be a Phoenix rider in the first place: to protect, to save, to champion the weak and powerless.”
Source: Heart of Flames
“This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.”
“This was worse than a coke binge. Worse than black tar or the thrill of E. This was the devil himself snaking his way inside of my heart and bending me to his will. This was addiction, quickly morphing into obsession. And somewhere in the clouded fog that was my brain, I knew this was a game I was going to lose.”
Source: Echo
“This was years ago, I think during the early [Ronald] Reagan years. I came up with a plan that everybody just pay $8.95 in taxes. Cheating would be allowed. But the incentive to cheat wouldn't be nearly as great if you only had to pay the $8.95. There were a few people who would have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars under this plan. I think it was Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, the guys who do the quiz shows. But almost everybody else would be off really cheap.”
“This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.”
Source: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
“This was Zane Alexander, the boy who had been a Casanova since he hit puberty.”
Source: Saved by a SEAL
“This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.”
“This wasn't a bear," Lieutenant Paulding said. The lieutenant was one of King County's designated "This never happened" people. I had to wonder over the years how one got promoted when the cases you worked "never happened".”
Source: Grunge
“This wasn't a carnal thing that started between my thighs, worked its way to my brain, tricking my heart. This was different. New.”
Source: Saving Gypsy
“This wasn't a cognitive idea, but an embodied anticipation and certainty about how things work that required her body to behave in a particular way.”
“This wasn't a commodifiable realization, the kind of thing in college essays or inspirational books or the hardbound journals of gentle ladies. There was no ah, no ha, no relaxation or humor folded into this realization. There was just something real in my head—a rescue boat in a sea where there was no one left to save.”
Source: Nobody Is Ever Missing
“This wasn’t a rescue anymore. It was war.”
Source: Reckoning
“This wasn’t about religion, or who subscribed to which worldview, or who did or didn’t have faith.
It was about friendship.”
Source: Humanism from the Heart: Building Bridges Beyond Belief
“This wasn’t better either
I was happy once when I was here
There was peace and youth,
love for myself and cheer
No man to crave
and no misery,
no insomnia and reverie
Disappointed in me, I contemplate
I don't even remember the girl,
who I now totally hate”
Source: Loveish
“This wasn’t going how Fireman thought it was going to go…but he knew the ending, no matter how they got there.”
Source: Fireman
“This wasn't going to be easy. Honestly, I was tired of being the one who always had to know. Knowing how someone had died, whether by old age, sickness, or murder, quite frankly, sucked. Add in that I was probably betraying the trust of my only friend, and I felt like a real winner.”
Source: A Boy Worth Knowing
“This wasn't how I saw our grand rescue going," Aden whispered. His voice was rough, almost shaky, "I knew I'd never deserve you, but I'd hoped for more time to try."
Him deserve me? I hadn't heard correctly. My head was too light to get a grasp on any of this.
"I said I'd never send you where I didn't dare go, yet here we are." A wry chuckle. "I know it makes you uncomfortable, but I can't let you enter that room without telling you how I feel. You've changed me, Laney Garrow. You opened my eyes long before those pirates came. And then they made me a prisoner, and I thought I was alone in the world, but you jumped through that window...well, it made me decide something. If we do survive this, my first act as king will be to rescind my father's Edict. I don't know much about ruling a country, but I do refuse to become a monster. Women like you deserve as much freedom in this world as any man. I won't be the one to take it away.”
Source: Tides of Mutiny