Top 100 Sherry Thomas Quotes
#1. What is it?" she mumbled.
"Something that will make my kisses taste like chocolate.
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#2. She felt as if she'd been hugging puppies all day.
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#3. I like money very well. It is the means to independence and authority.
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#4. There was no idiocy bigger than that committed by a man who believed himself the cleverest creature under the sun.
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#5. Humans, herself included, held no
interest for her except as living machines, mind-bogglingly intricate, beautiful systems that
somehow housed individuals not quite worthy of the miracle of their physical bodies.
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#6. The hero is a secret agent? Well, who gives a crap about the rest of his case once he has met the heroine. Time for moody angst!
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#8. This is the story of a girl who fooled a thousand boys, a boy who fooled an entire country, a partnership that would change the fate of realms, and a power to challenge the greatest tyrant the world had ever known. Expect magic.
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#9. It was the beginning of the end.
Or perhaps, it was only the end of something that was never meant to begin.
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#10. Now he could work her likeness into any story of his choosing. Now he could fight dragons for her. And now he could kiss her again.
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#11. We are all going to die soon. Do you really wish to waste time being angry at me?"
"Yes. I remain an unrepentant optimist. If i see that I am about to die, or you, I will forgive you. But not until then, you bastard.
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#12. Did you ever find yourself considering matters from the Chinese point of view?'
'It would be strange if I never did, wouldn't it? Everyone should be able to consider matters form someone else's perspective.
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#13. I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.
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#14. Fortune favors the brave."
Another moment of silence. And then, Iolanthe found herself shouting at the top of her lungs, her voice nearly drowned by the bellow of all the rebels present, "And the brave make their own fortune!
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#15. She'd never thought of herself quite that way. She was more an idiosyncratic ignorer of established boundaries than a glutton for the new and the uncharted. But perhaps they were one and the same, each one implying the other.
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#16. If all I have to do is remain awake to be considered romantic, than I can promise you a great deal of romance in our marriage.
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#17. Some lovers were fortunate enough to grow old together. They'd grown old apart. She did not think him any less handsome. She only wished that she'd been there when the first line on his face had appeared, so that she could have stroked and kissed and cherished it.
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#18. If God doesn't want people to lie, he shouldn't have given the best liars such earnest and innocent faces.
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#19. For what is the Void but the beginning of Light? What is Light but the end of Fear? And what am I, but Light given from? What am I, but the beginning of Eternity?
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#20. Was it possible - was it at all possible that she could come out of her most desperate choice with a man as clever as Odysseus who looked like Achilles and made love like Paris ... ?
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#21. Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn't be interesting.
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#22. He did not look like an archangel - if archangels looked as he did, there would be no women of virtue left in Paradise.
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#23. I only speak the truth. I quite despise myself for these desires that run amok. But run amok they do. I daresay for the rest of my life I will dream of being fondled by you.
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#24. There existed something in this world that bound a mage tighter than a blood oath: love. Love was the ultimate chain, the ultimate whip, and the ultimate slave driver.
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#25. Love will make you weak and indecisive, remember?" she murmured.
What a fool he had been. For a journey like theirs, love was the only thing that would make him strong enough.
"Don't ever listen to an idiot like me," he answered.
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#26. Alas, would that it were as easy to appease the heart as it is to satisfy the stomach.
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#27. Love was not blind, but it might mimic a deteriorating case of cataracts.
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#28. I will have you know that I have the brightest mind and the keenest wit. Why, people are often astounded by the perspicacity of my discourse and the subtlety of my insight!" He
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#29. The buttons on her back gave way as if before a Mongol horde.
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#30. You don't know how to converse. Sometimes I think the spaces between the
stars are filled with your silence.
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#32. Then she spied the cauldeon, sitting upright at the very bottom of the crater, filled with the most beautiful exiler she'd ever seen, like distilled starlight.
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#33. Why allow all the old memories to have supremacy? Make new ones, memories of such luster and beauty that, should the old ones come back, they would be pallid and impotent in comparison.
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#34. Her jaw dropped. She grabbed him by the shoulders. "I think I have formed an attachment to you. You know, what the English call a desire to have symphonic concerts with someone at all hours of the day?"
He smiled. "And I love you too, darling."
-Lizzy and Will
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#35. That was how he would go on tormenting her, after his physical departure from her life. A baroque plan, byzantine even, a plan that both pleased and shamed him.
He awaited only the night, this one grotesque, terrible night.
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#37. At her incendiary words, he drove deeper - far deeper - into her, unable to help himself.
"So," she said, her fingers on his cheek, "now I've made you mine."
He took her fingers in hand and kissed them one by one. "You made me yours long ago, but now you finally claimed me.
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#38. Perhaps unrequited love was like a specter in the house, a presence that brushed at the edge of senses, a heat in the dark, a shadow under the sun.
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#39. You are the beginning of Eternity now, she said silently to Master Haywood. You have arrived at the end of Fear. And I will love you always, for as long as the world endures.
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#40. You are asking me to give up everything for a cause that isn't mine. I don't want to be part of any revolution. I just want to live.
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#42. He took a strand of hair that had fallen loose from her chignon between his fingers. The gesture shocked her, not because his self-control seemed to have snapped, but the exact opposite - it felt like a deliberate choice on his part.
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#43. But you do not need to worry, Cooper. What is mine, I keep.
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#44. Better be unromantic than thoroughly used and still poor.
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#45. How did one deal with such ingrained cowardice? Then I realized that there is no such thing as courage in the absence of cowardice. Courage is also a choice: It's what happens when one refuses to give in to fear.
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#46. He admired her surety. She knew her own worth and did not pretend otherwise for those who judged her on her parentage. But by refusing to tolerate fools and play nice, she'd condemned herself to a solitary path, both in defeat and in victory.
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#47. Trust ran both ways. How could he ask her to trust him when he hardly trusted her?
He would trust her, in her love, in her strength, in her decency and fortitude.
And when the time came, he would find the strength in himself.
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#48. There was no such thing as a marriage with one happy spouse. Both must be or neither.
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#49. Because being in love does not give you any excuse to be less than honorable, Lady
Tremaine.
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#50. Wintervale, by being so open, trusting, and artless his entire life, had made his more cynical friends hang on to their secrets. And in doing so, they had preserved themselves from the Bane.
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#51. Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn't know my name and barely knew my face.
- Leo
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#52. They all three threw up shields at the same time, Titus for Iolanthe, Iolanthe for Titus, and Lady Wintervale for them both.
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#53. a drunk did not expect the bottle to love him back,and she only wished to drink him in whenever she could.
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#54. How ironic that when they'd been married, she'd never thought of growing old with him.
Yet now, years after the annulment, she should think of it with the yearning of an exile, for
the homeland that had long ago evicted her.
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#55. She was proud one moment, covetous the next, and then fearful the moment after that. It would always be like this, wouldn't it, being the wife of a man she loved but couldn't trust, whose true motives were as murky as the bottom of the sea?
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#56. She wanted to run her hands over him as he whispered the impassioned corollaries of non-Euclidean geometry.
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#57. Or perhaps I've already despaired - and decided that while despair is fine as an occasional indulgence, it can't be served three times a day.
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#58. Despite all her strengths, there was a certain brittleness to her. Sometimes she retreated into
her keep. Sometimes she ran away. But she did not forgive and she did not forget.
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#59. Friendship is untenable for people in our position.
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#61. So . . . you want me to fall in love with you, while you play kissing games with another girl?
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#62. If she hadn't been at peace, then at least she
wasn't at war with herself.
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#64. I see you are still determined to not listen to me about not venturing abroad after lights-out.'
She sat down across from him at the worktable. 'I never listen to you when I know enough to make up my own mind.
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#65. All your
emotions were so intense - your anger like daggers, your unhappiness a poisoned well. Even
your love had such sharp corners and dark alleys.
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#66. I guess what I'm really trying to say is that you used to shatter easily. But
now you've become less brittle.
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#67. I wonder now how we got by when you weren't here."
"I have no doubt the devastation was widespread, the suffering universal."
"Indeed, it was the Dark Ages in the annals of Mrs. Dawlish's house. Ignorance was thick on the ground, and unenlkghtenment befogged all the windows.
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#68. He stopped and looked at her. "Your laughter is the same," he said. "I used to think you all sophisticated and worldly, until you laughed. You still laugh like a little girl getting tickled, all hiccupy and breathless.
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#69. I will keep you safe, he murmured. He meant it. As long as he was safe, she was safe. But how long would he remain safe?
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#70. I often question your actions, but rarely your reasoning. And this isn't one of those rare instances.
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#71. What stupid children they had been, to cause each other such pain and then to hold on to their wounds so fiercely. She
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#72. He was silent. She hoped she'd injured his feelings - assuming he had feelings to injure in the first place.
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#73. You might be the scariest girl I've ever met," he told her.
"Let's not be dramatic," she said drily. "I'm the only girl you can remember ever meeting.
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#74. Sometimes people change, said a voice inside him.
And sometimes they don't.
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#75. But stupid things have a gravity and a momentum of their own; they crush good thinking and resistance as colonists with guns and cannons overcame spear-throwing natives.
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#76. I won't bite, you know," he said. "I might lick, but I won't bite."
"I don't want you to lick either."
"I will lick only where you like, how is that?
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#77. His climax began gathering again, rising toward a point of no return. He didn't know if he could restrain himself this time: He was too close, too near to being overwhelmed.
She cried out, trembling exclamations.
He lost all control, his release hot, violent, and endless.
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#78. Rain came down in sheets. It had been a miserable spring. Already he despaired of ever again walking under an unclouded sky.
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#79. To the beginning of the rest of our lives.
- Leo
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#80. The entire point of life was the ability to make one's own choices. Foreknowledge of anything - especially the circular kind, such as Kashkari's presence at Eton because he'd dreamed of it - was terribly limiting and ran counter to the concept of free will.
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#81. You overestimate the courage of those in power. They are often more interested in holding on to that power than in doing anything worthwhile with it.
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#82. Her Leo, so bright, so beautiful.
And in the end, so catastrophically flawed.
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#83. They say that when an elemental mage called forth flame, she stole a little from every fire in the world. That would make Iolanthe Seabourn quite the thief.
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#84. That the loss of a man, even if he had been the love of her life, was not the end of a woman's existence.
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#85. He was summertime itself, young, luminous, lit from within by rekindled hopes and reawakened dreams. And every beggar along his path - herself included - could expect redoubled generosity and kindness.
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#86. He'd gone into their marriage determined that she would never be alone again. In the end,
she'd made him as alone in the world as she.
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#87. He should not, but he cupped her face and kissed her. Because they were past the point when words were any use. Because he was once again afraid to die. Because he loved her as much as he loved life itself.
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#88. There was a great deal of skill in her smile, a smile meant to make a boy who had done nothing with his life make him feel accomplis and remarkable-vile even.
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#89. As long as I live and breathe, I will be with you.
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#90. Do not undervalue what you are ultimately worth because you are at a momentary disadvantage.
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#91. I beg you to exercise wisdom and restraint and remember that not all opportunities are created equal. Some are nothing but steps leading down toward catastrophe.
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#92. Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.
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#93. I love everything about her, including her talent for breaking my heart.
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#94. Did the
two of you marry again? Please tell me yes. If he is my brother-in-law again, he is less likely
to kill me for what I did."
Bryony looked at her a moment, then leaned in and whispered in her ear. "He won't kill
you. He just wants you committed to an asylum.
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#95. Some hopes were weeds, easy to eradicate with a yank and a pull. Some, however, were vines, fast growing, tenacious, and impossible to clear.
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#96. Nothing," he said. "Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn't know my name and barely knew my face.
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#97. I always think I cannot love you more if I tried, but I always do.
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#98. Some things are not meant to be, Leighton Atwood had said the night before. But if they were not meant to be, then why did the forces of destiny keep bringing them together?
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#99. I love you. I will love you until the end of the world.
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#100. Never mind what a man says; watch what he does.
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