W Quotes
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“What she didn't understand is, that if every man can have access to it. It being her; her attention, her body, her time, her heart and her mind, then "it" holds no value. What makes "it" invaluable, precious and rare, is not every man having access to it.”
“What she does not see behind her is the disturbance her nuns have left in the forest, the families of squirrels, of dormice, of voles, of badgers, of stoats who have been chased in confusion from their homes, the trees felled that held green woodpeckers, the pine martens, the mistle thrushes and the long-tailed tits, the woodcocks and capercaillies chased from their nests, the willow warbler vanished in panic from these lands for the time being; it will take a half century to lure these tiny birds back. She sees only the human stamp upon the place. She considers it good.”
Source: Matrix
“What she felt for him wasn't a sin.
"If you'll remain a gentleman?" she asked.
Nolan swiveled on his heels and twirled her into the shadowy booth. He stepped inside the small space with her, their bodies forced even closer together. "Define gentleman," he said, his breath already hot against her neck.”
Source: The Lovely and the Lost
“What she felt most of all on the day when Bill sat down next to her behind a funeral parlor she could not bring herself to enter, was the sense that she had lost something vital; not just a purse or a credit card, but the life she could have led if things had been just a little different, or if God had seen fit to put just a little more of some important chemical in her system.”
“What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and hollows, for the time given.”
Source: Away from Her: Stories
“What?” She gasps. “Who did you do it with? You can’t go out there and pick up some random stranger. Oh no, Carrie. You didn’t. You didn’t pick up some guy at a bar.”
Source: Summer and the City
“What she had believed was indignation or rage or a deep intolerance for injustice came down to this: she was irreducibly in love with this bewitching planet, this thrilling life, this heartbreaking species she belonged to, with its capacity for stupefying destruction and breathtaking magnanimity.”
“What she had done over the past year had required an equivalent expenditure of energy to a year-long sprint, and when she thought of it that way it was obviously an unreasonable thing to do. Remaining sane--clinging and grasping at it, seeking to please a propriety constructed by people whose boyfriends had never killed themselves--was in fact the most insane thing she could have done, and anyone properly equipped by the right kind of experience would understand that.”
Source: The Great Night
“What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was. It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.”
“What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”
“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”
Source: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
“What she had shared with Akiva could not be touched by shame. Madrigal lifted her voice to say, "We dreamed together of the world remade.”
Source: Daughter of Smoke & Bone
“What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty.”
Source: Nineteen Minutes
“What she heard was a deep and pervasive silence.”
Source: The Measure of the Magic
“What she knew was sand and wind and innumerable stars. The rumble in a camel’s throat as it swayed over shifting dunes, its trappings jingling in time with its steps beneath her. She knew the sting of thirst and the taste of dried fruit, the glare of sun and the frigid, bone-numbing cold of the air when the sun gave her throne over to the moon. She knew that, to survive, one must often revise one’s caliber, and one must completely depend upon Jesus Christ.”
“What she liked most about sex was that feeling of all the normal posturing and social rules falling away; the giddy panic of realizing you've lost control and you're not getting it back. Instead, you're just helplessly writhing, victim of an ancient itch.”
Source: Margo's Got Money Troubles
“What she liked was simply life. "That's what i did it for," she said, speaking aloud to life... Could any man understand what she meant, either, about life? …But to go deeper, beneath what people said, and these judgments, how superficial, how fragmentary, they are. In her own mind now, what did it mean to her, this thing she called life? It was an offering…it was her gift.”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway
“what she loved: life, London, this moment of june.”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition
“What she means is, I might look like a pussy but I'm really a badass demon.”
Source: Silver-Tongued Devil
“What she means is that nice and kind are not the same thing. Plenty of people aren’t nice at all, but they’re kind. And that’s what matters.”
Source: I Kissed Shara Wheeler
“What she missed most about dating men was that small, disconcerting time frame when you thought that maybe you could change them.”
Source: Lake Success
“What she missed the most about the person she'd been, Maya realized, was her hope for a coming world that turned out never to have been possible. She was nostalgic for an imaginary future.”
Source: The Holdout
“What she most wanted was to blend in with her background by changing color and shape, to remain inconspicuous and not easily remembered, this was how she had protected herself since childhood.”
Source: 1Q84
“What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“What she needed was someone who would take her for the whole night. Someone decent and respectable, with an apartment of his own. But how could you ever judge what men were really like? It was the young ones with the swaggering walks and the loud mouths who ended up bursting into tears and showing you pictures of their girlfriends. It was the bespectacled bankers and lawyers who liked to knock you around.”
Source: Archangel
“What she needs are stories.
Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget.
Stories come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems, films. And books.
Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we call psychosis is sometimes simply realism. But human beings can't live on realism alone.”
Source: The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin
“What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.”
Source: THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH
“What she really craved was a connection. That feeling you got when you knew you were supposed to be with someone.”
Source: In Dreams
“What she really felt like doing was reading. Escaping into the Enchanted Wood, up the Faraway Tree, or with the Famous Five into Smuggler's Top.”
Source: The Forgotten Garden
“What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially when the waves were high and the ship rose and fell, or when it was snowing and the flakes stung her face.”
“What she really wanted [...] was [...] "to experience every emotion to the limit" so she could go beyond every limit.”
Source: Eurydice in the Underworld
“What?" she said, suddenly feeling uncomfortable under his scrutiny. She knew it was silly. He'd seen her at her absolute worst.
"You just look so... cute," he said. "Clearly breaking the law excites you.”
Source: Deliverance At Cardwell Ranch (Cardwell Cousins, Book 4)
“What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.”
Source: Summer rain
“What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.”
Source: Stargirl
“What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart. The old man on the bench, for example, made her cry. The lumberjack ants made her laugh. The door of many colours put her in such a snit of curiosity that i had to drag her away;she felt she could not proceed with her life until she knocked on such a door.”
“What she seems to fear most is not that Rue will be killed by some other tribute, but rather that she and Rue will face each other as the last two survivors in the Games, forcing Katniss to sacrifice her erstwhile ally for the sake of a promise to her sister. As horrible as it sounds, Rue’s death at the hands of Marvel was good moral luck for Katniss.”
Source: The Hunger Games and Philosophy: A Critique of Pure Treason
“What she thinks and feels is this: This is a world of men. They come into your country, they invade your home, they kill your family. They turn your body into the battlefield — the territory of all violence — all power — all life and death. And we take it. We do. We keep taking it. We have lost track of the reasons we do not slaughter the world of men, but we do not. Yes, there are good men. She sees the face of her father. She sees how the filmmaker loves the writer. She sees the yet-unwritten life of the writer’s son. She sees her. . brother. Beautiful smear. But it is the world of men that creates pure destruction. And this is a truth we cannot bear: Since we bear them into the world, we cannot kill them. Cannot be done with them. Cannot exile them into oblivion.”
Source: The Small Backs of Children
“What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".”
“What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.”
Source: The Hours: A Novel
“What she was coming to realize, but what no woman was allowed to utter aloud, was that there was no guarantee your child would be adequate compensation for the life you gave up to have it. More and more, life looked an awful lot like a hoax perpetrated on women and designated to further men’s lives at the expense of their own.”
Source: The Sport of Kings
“What she was doing was, she was letting it be his idea. She was walking him along, holding his hand tightly enough to lead him, loosely enough for him to be unaware of it. She was an absolute natural. Or maybe all women could do that to all men, if they wanted to.”
Source: Underground Airlines
“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
Source: The Uncommon Reader
“What she was not clear on were the reasons for keeping the cabriolet. There was the fact that it had been Monroe's, but that did not feel like the holding point. She worried that it was the mobility of the thing that held her to it. The promise in its tall wheels that if things got bad enough she could just climb up and ride away.”
“What she was retreating from was any profundity of feeling and therefore any commitment more intense than light church attendance and an interest in roses.... History is of course crammed with people like Mother, who are just sitting it out.”
Source: Moon Tiger
“What she writes is not just a mirror held up to reality but a hope which give birth to the courage .”
“What she writes is the water of life! powerful and the most precious ..”
“What she writes! It's a collaboration between God and the poet - rose colored crystals of life”
“What she writes! the tears of writer, the tears of reader. the breathings of beautiful soul ..”
“What shed, earth’s clay—
Transaction held in the air,
Flower became honey.”
Source: Cherry Blossoms: A Haiku Poetry Book