T Quotes
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“The boy of ice and stone . . . Who dashed her heart against a jagged shore, only to walk away without so much as a glance.”
“The boy planted his hands on his hips and a broad smile lit his face. "My name's Peter. Can I play too?”
Source: The Child Thief: A Novel
“The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.”
Source: From Here to Eternity
“The boy raised the can to his nose and smelled, his lips wrinkling back as if he'd caught the business end of a skunk.”
Source: The Fortunate Only
“The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“The boy registered them but didn’t answer, already turned inward. He was counting backward from a thousand in multiples of four while working multiplication tables of seven until they met.”
Source: Black Fire
“The boy's death turned me into a person marked by war: it was the Sarajevo equivalent of a campaign medal, although not one to wear with pride.”
Source: War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line
“The boy's friends come over to lead him away, and at that moment, improbably, Locke's gaze lifts. His tawny fox eyes meet mine and widen in surprise. I am immobilised, my heart speeding. I brace myself for more scorn, but then one corner of his mouth lifts. He winks, as if in acknowledgement of being caught out. As if we're sharing a secret. As if he thinks I am not loathly, as though he does not find my mortality contagious.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“The boy’s skeletal frame was now all that remained of him, and through his flesh could be seen the steady beat of his indomitable heart.”
Source: Upon Destiny's Song
“The boy's smile was a mockery of innocence. 'Are you frightened?'
'Yes,' I said. Never lie- that had been Rhys's first command.
The boy stood, but kept to the other side of the cell. 'Feyre,' he murmured, cocking his head. The orb of faelight glazed the inky hair in silver. 'Fay-ruh,' he said again, drawing out the syllables as if he could taste them. At last, he straightened his head. ''Where did you go when you died?'
'A question for a question,' I replied, as I'd been instructed over breakfast.
...
Rhys gave me a subtle nod, but his eyes were wary. Because what the boy had asked...
I had to calm my breathing to think- to remember.
But there was blood and death and pain and screaming- and she was breaking me, killing me so slowly, and Rhys was there, roaring in fury as I died. Tamlin begging for my life on his knees before her throne... But there was so much agony, and I wanted it to be over, wanted it all to stop-
Rhys had gone rigid while he monitored the Bone Carver, as if those memories were freely flowing past the mental shields I'd made sure were intact this morning. And I wondered if he thought I'd give up then and there.
I bunched my hands into fists.
I had lived; I had gotten out. I would get out today.
'I heard the crack,' I said. Rhys's head whipped toward me. 'I heard the crack when she broke my neck. It was in my ears, but also inside my skull. I was gone before I felt anything more than the first lash of pain.'
The Bone Carver's violet eyes seemed to glow brighter.
'And then it was dark. A different sort of dark than this place. But there was a... thread,' I said. 'A tether. And I yanked on it- and suddenly I could see. Not through my eyes, but- but his,' I said, inclining my head toward Rhys. I uncurled the finger of my tattooed hand. 'And I knew I was dead, and this tiny scrap was all that was left of me, clinging to the thread of our bargain.'
'But was there anyone there- were you seeing anything beyond?'
'There was only that bond in the darkness.'
Rhysand's face had gone pale, his mouth a tight line. 'And when I was Made anew,' I said, 'I followed that bond back- to me. I knew that home was on the other end of it. There was light then. Like swimming up through sparkling wine-'
'Were you afraid?'
'All I wanted was to return to- to the people around me. I wanted it badly enough I didn't have room for fear. The worst had happened and the darkness was calm and quiet. It did not seem like a bad thing to fade into. But I wanted to go home. So I followed the bond home.'
'There was no other world,' the Bone Carver pushed.
'If there was or is, I did not see it.'
'No light, no portal?'
Where is it that you want to go? The question almost leaped off my tongue. 'It was only peace and darkness.'
'Did you have a body?'
'No.'
'Did-'
'That's enough from you,' Rhysand purred- the sound like velvet over sharpest steel. 'You said a question for a question. Now you've asked...' He did a tally on his fingers. 'Six.'
The Bone Carver leaned back against the wall and slid to a sitting position. 'It is a rare day when I meet someone who comes back from true death. Forgive me for wanting to peer behind the curtain.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“The Boy Scouts of America stands for a set of principles. These principles have a lot of staying power. The values you learn as a Scout are like a compass. They can help you find your way through difficult and sometimes unchartered terrain. The principles of Scouting give you a sense of what's important. I feel I owe the Boy Scouts a great deal, both personally and professionally.”
“The boy shall have a proper beating,' said Cecil. 'But I beat him already,' I said, 'and don't tell me I didn't do it properly. I'm touchy about these things.”
Source: Chime
“The boy shook violently and wailed. It was a relief and a horror to hear the child — a horror to hear his pained screams, but a relief to know he was alive enough to scream.”
Source: Hotel Miramar: An Old Castle Novel
“The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother's darling, and more, his father's pride, and more. The child is not meant to die, but to be forever fresh born.”
Source: The Heart of George MacDonald: A One-Volume Collection of His Most Important Fiction, Essays, Sermons, Drama, and Biographical Information
“The Boy should watch where he’s going,” she said. “Rachel should not manifest in doorways,” I replied.”
Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)
“The boy smiled -- mostly at Amy. "Sorry, her heart belongs to Ian Kabra," Dan said, except that something in her expression made him realize her heart didn't belong at all to Ian right now.”
Source: The 39 Clues #7: The Viper's Nest
“The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and symbols he does not understand at first but that become intimately familiar beneath his ink-stained fingers, formed again and again in increasingly steady lines.”
Source: The Night Circus
“The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second “you.”
Source: The Maltese Falcon
“The boy stood with the mouth of the cave yawning wide behind him.”
Source: The Rising Force
“The boy stuck his hand out politely and shook hers, then extended it to Fergus, his eyes bright as stars in the night sky. "That's cool," he said, looking down at Fergus's hand and turning it sideways so he could get a better look. "You have little webs between your fingers. Does that hep you swim?"
Marcus cleared his throat, looking embarrassed. "Tito, dude, it's not polite to comment on people's, um, oddities." He shrugged an apology at Fergus, who just laughed.
"I do not mind," Fergus said, grinning at the dark-skinned boy. He leaned down and whispered. "Can you keep a secret? I am actually a Merman from an undersea kingdom; that is why I have webs between my fingers." He held up one bare foot and said in a more normal tone, "Toes, too, see?"
Tito's face was a study in conflicting awe and disbelief. "I never heard of a Merman," he said, dubiously. "I thought there were only Mermaids. And they're made up."
Fergus snorted. "If you do not have any Mermen, how would get more Mermaids, eh?”
Source: Wickedly Wonderful
“The boy that you loved is the man that you fear.”
“The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of.”
“The boy took a step toward her. Lex jumped back, her contentious instincts kicking in. "Stop right there," she warned. "I punch, I kick, and I feel compelled to warn you, I can bite harder than the average Amazonian crocodile."
He smirked and leaned against the doorframe. "And I feel compelled to warn YOU that the bathroom we now share has a leaky ceiling," he said, pointing up. "There's an umbrella under the sink, if you're going to be in here for a while.”
Source: Croak
“The boy took his seat at one side of the fire, his men arrayed about him like the spikes on a porcupine's back, all bristling with spears.”
Source: In the Shadow of Ruin
“The boy took my sketchbook.”
Source: Alone in Paris
“The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.”
“The boy was duly christened, and in the process he started crying and pulled an awful face as if he were having premonitions that one day he might become a titular councillor.”
Source: Plays and Petersburg Tales
“The boy was giving homosexuality a crazy kind of dignity.”
Source: The Love Machine
“The boy was hardly much of a boy anymore, having donned his manly toga several years before, but he still had a rosy-cheeked look about him that made him seem younger than his eighteen years. He wore his hair closely cropped in the style of Augustus. It made his features all the more prominent; dark brown eyes, chiseled nose, and a slight pout in his lips that rounded out his Adonis-like visage.”
Source: Feast of Sorrow
“The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.”
Source: Oliver Twist: Classic English Literature
“The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.”
Source: The Midnight Heir
“The boy was still looking at him. "Your family?" he asked.
Salva shook his head.
"Me, too, " the boy said. He sighed, and Salva heard that sigh all the way to his heart.”
“The boy was the sun in Coriane's sky. On hard days, he split the darkness. On good days, he lit the world. When Tibe went away to the front, for weeks at a time now that the war ran hot again, Cal kept her safe. Only a few months old and better than any shield in the kingdom.”
Source: Queen Song
“The boy was there too, stumbling through the living room horde and passing out magic mushrooms from a paper bag. His eyeballs sparkled inside gaping, play-dough sockets while his limbs hung gaunt and exhausted from eight straight days of self-medicating fear. Another boy in a black tee pinched some mushroom flakes from his bag, nodded his thanks, and mouthed the word “bro” like blowing a man kiss.”
Source: Fallout Dreams
“The boy wasn't beautiful. Not even handsome in this gentle, dusky light. It was only that they were the same age, and that they worked there, shoulder touching through the steaming, aching hours, passing cigarettes back and forth in this lot, the filter's taste changing: slick and slightly sweeter from the blue Gatorade Russia sipped through his shift. Can camaraderie - the bond of working in unison - be eno0ught to make you want to put your mouth to a kid with a busted face, to find him somehow more complete despite his unrecognizable beauty, the smell of his armpits seeping through his work polo, that garlicky, vinegary scent of humanness canceling the drugstore deodorant he wore to hide it? Yes, Hai realized now - it was.”
Source: The Emperor of Gladness
“The boy who became a man progressed from darkness and unlearning to light and responsibility.”
“The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.”
“The boy who had struggled to find friends for so long finally had a whole group of people he could call his brothers.”
Source: All Boys Aren’t Blue
“The boy who initiated me into smack, who I will call Tim, was at that time eighteen years old, and came from Castlemilk. His life was a helter-skelter ride of drug-fuelled binges.”
Source: Lost in Care: The True Story of a Forgotten Child
“The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“The boy who walks in the light.”
“The boy will grow older, and over time there will be other songs – not many – ten or maybe twenty in a lifespan, that stand apar from the rest of the music he will discover. He will realise as he grows older still, and crosses the Canadian border and drives down into Seattle, that not only are these songs holy or sacred, they are hiding songs – what the Aztec Indians call carrion songs – that deal exclusively in darkness, obfuscation, concealment and secrecy. He will realize that, for him, the purpose of these songs has been to shut off the sun, to draw a long shadow down and protect him from the corrosive glare of the world.”
Source: The Sick Bag Song
“The boy will keep the sunboy.’
‘I already owe enough favours.’
Moony chuckled and reclined. ‘The boy may find need of a light for the dark places.”
Source: Maynard Trigg and The Creature Beneath The Veil
“The boy will remain a son and never become a father. He will be forgotten by the crowd once his blood is rinsed clean from the ground; his sister will think of him but soon she will forget him, too. He will live on only in Han's memory, a child punished not for his own insincerity but someone else's disbelief.”
“The boy with grazes on his cheeks was snoring softly. Stella watched him as he slept. She lifted her eyes to the firmament. The skies were changing color. Billy followed her gaze. Since childhood, he was her confidante, her trusted friend.”
Source: The Girl in The Red Cape
“The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn't really see.”
“The boy with the dirty face stood up and hugged Coraline tightly. 'Take comfort in this,' he whispered. 'Th'art alive. Thou livest.”
Source: Coraline
“The boy with the haunted eyes was Dory's secret. Eli. And she knew that she had to see him again.”
Source: Jet Black Heart
“The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.”
“The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.”