All Her Quotes

#1. The joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.

Anna Quindlen

#2. I never fully realized how much a New England birth in itself was worth, but I am happy that that was my lot. I have felt it so keenly these last few days. Dear old New England, with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions; the home of all that is good and noble.

Matthew Pearl

#3. Avery McTavish - The Last Boyfriend
Insanity ... She knew how to organize and stay that way. But it seemed to her all her organization skills arrowed toward work and missed her life by a mile.

Nora Roberts

#4. Wisdom is justified by all her children.
Luke 7:35

Anonymous

#5. I sometimes think it would be beneficial if people thought of each other as "historical factorials." Thus, (Myrtle!) would be understood not just as present-day Myrtle but as the product of all her past experiences.

John Allen Paulos

#6. All these men who loved Emma, I think. For all her problems, men were fixated on her. Will anyone ever feel like that about me?

J.P. Delaney

#7. Elizabeth Hardwick told me once that all her first drafts sounded as if a chicken had written them. So do mine for the most part.

Flannery O'Connor

#8. It is the duty of a woman to be obedient to her husband, and unless she is, I would not give a damn for all her queenly right and authority; nor for her either, if she will quarrel, and lie about the work of God and the principle of plurality.

Heber C. Kimball

#9. And Schuyler hoped with all her heart that he would never find out the truth.

Melissa De La Cruz

#10. Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,
Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.

W.S. Gilbert

#11. I could be with Ana, helping her pack all her shit, then going out for pizza with her and Kate and Elliot - or whatever ordinary people do.

E.L. James

#12. This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.

Gustave Moreau

#13. Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again.

George R R Martin

#14. Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too: "I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all! ... The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us."

Vivien Leigh

#15. It was a relief to inhabit someone else's life for a while, to get her personal issues for a brief respite. In a play, she knew exactly how all her character's problems would be resolved. No matter how the cast performed, the end turned out the same. No questions, no worries, no unknowns.

Alexandra Robbins

#16. For all her faults, it was actually my mom who instilled in me a love of reading, and books, for which I will always be grateful. She's a complete bibliophile, so I've pretty much grown up around libraries and books.

Paula Gruben

#17. These men were like leeches; they sucked away at the goodness of a woman's heart until it was dry and all her love had been used up. That took a long time, he knew, because women seemed to have vast reservoirs of goodness in them

Alexander McCall Smith

#18. Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eyes. In every gesture, dignity and love.

J.D. Robb

#19. We must find you a new boyfriend, Wavey had kept telling her, but what if a girlfriend was what Fever needed? She felt as if she had opened the door to a room she had never noticed in a house where she'd lived all her life.

Philip Reeve

#20. She felt nervy as all her excitements turned into weaknesses

Munia Khan

#21. She was not softly delicate in all her ways; but in disposition and temper she was altogether generous. I do not know that she was at all points a lady, but had Fate so willed it she would have been a thorough gentleman.

Anthony Trollope

#22. My mother worked for the social services all her life. She always said that in the middle of all the crap, in the thick of it all, you always had a sunny story turning up. Which makes it all worthwhile.' The next words that come are smiling. 'You're my sunny story, Britt-Marie.

Fredrik Backman

#23. It was obvious that the woman was trying to turn over a new leaf, so we bought all her bowls. I got a gigantic stoneware one with a flat bottom, like you'd use if you were making bread for the whole army, and I knew I would have to change my whole life to have a use for this bowl.

Debby Bull

#24. I want to be tangled up in all her strings.

Shayla Black

#25. My sister, Judy, has always said that she would like to lie in state, propped up in her coffin with her eyes blared wide open, face fixed in a big grin, and have a taped greeting for all her mourners. Something real upbeat and, well, live-sounding, like: 'He-e-e-ey!Cuteshoestellyomamahi!

Jill Conner Browne

#26. I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.

John Milton

#27. We cannot accept any code or creed that uniformly defrauds woman of all her natural rights.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#28. Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.

Blaise Pascal

#29. The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#30. When she was born I wanted to go out and kill someone for her, so she would know for sure, all her life, that I was ready to do it if it needed doing.

Tana French

#31. Rachel will be left pretty lonely if anything happens to him, with all her children settled out west, except Eliza in town; and she doesn't like her husband. Marilla's pronouns slandered Eliza, who was very fond of her husband.

L.M. Montgomery

#32. Gorgon say that Callisto was a woman who laugh all her life but never smile once.

Marlon James

#33. It was hard to know what was worse: him being with her and all her sisters, or him being with none of them because his heart was held by another.
-Cormia

J.R. Ward

#34. I want so badly to take all her words and fit them like the pieces of a puzzle into the hole in my heart

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#35. I wouldn't like to be that famous, I value my privacy. Mind you, Miss Piggy enjoys every moment of it. If it were not for me, she would spend all her time in the limelight.

Frank Oz

#36. She closed her eyes and held all her dreams between her fingers like a dandelion and just blew it. She smiled watching it fly through the air, making everything look beautiful around her while a tear rolled down her cheek.

Akshay Vasu

#37. For all her Targaryen blood, Dany had not the least idea of how to train a dragon.

George R R Martin

#38. Instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her secrets, while keeping our own to ourselves, as always.

Sarah Dessen

#39. For all her cute-as-a-button-ness, Bree had a laugh that reminded me of the noise Charly had made that time she shredded her fingertips on the cheese grater.

Jessica Martinez

#40. And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done.

William Devane

#41. It was, Eliza Hamilton Holly noted pointedly, the imperative duty that Eliza had bequeathed to all her children: Justice shall be done to the memory of my Hamilton.

Ron Chernow

#42. Louie brought his new girlfriend over, and the nicest thing I can say about her is all her tattoos are spelled correctly.

Robert Harling

#43. His appreciative gaze set off an internal chain reaction--erratic heartbeat, rush of heat--like all her cells collectively blushed, sighed, and propped their chins in their hands to stare. Well, if cells had chins and hands.

Angela Quarles

#44. Now, Kieli believed in the words 'no matter what.' Maybe there weren't really any 'no matter whats' in this world, but right now, she believed that there were with all her heart.

Yukako Kabei

#45. Christmas was definitely the best thing ever, even better than pizza. But instead of all her favorite toppings, Amitola was surrounded by all her favorite people.

Aishabella Sheikh

#46. Down the corridor was not back into the bedroom, which was good ... Okay, she had to argue with her ovaries on that one, since all her feminine instincts were clamoring for her to climb tall, alien, and handsome like a frigging tree.

Mina Carter

#47. MADELINE SHEEHAN WILL BE PUBLISHING ALL HER BOOKS IN ALL FORMATS FROM NOW UNTIL HER UNTIMELY DEATH BY HEART ATTACK (AT A VERY YOUNG AGE) DUE TO GOODREADS!

Madeline Sheehan

#48. The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul lingers about his throat, but the soul of the dancer abides in all her body.

Kahlil Gibran

#49. Somehow she could always think better when all her hair was out of her face. Stupid, but true.

Melinda Metz

#50. She wondered then if she had ever been on the right track. She had been reticent all her life, because it turned out that her opinions were different from what others expected. 'That proves either that I am an exceptional idiot, or the reverse.

Nuruddin Farah

#51. She always stood so trim and erect, and you had the feeling that all her grace and softness was caught in the rigor of an idea which you could not define.

Robert Penn Warren

#52. Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth.

Sigrid Undset

#53. Mrs. Obama has a hug - a sincere and friendly embrace - that has become familiar to countless supporters from coast to coast. And when she talks to you, she focuses all her calm attention on your face.

Andre Leon Talley

#54. This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

Jane Austen

#55. She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

George R R Martin

#56. I saw Eternity the other night,
Like a great ring of pure and endless light,
All calm, as it was bright,
And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years,
Driven by the spheres,
Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world
And all her train were hurled.

Madeleine L'Engle

#57. A ghastly creeping terror rises from a place beyond thoughts. Some innermost trapdoor she must leap upon immediately and lean against with all her weight and padlock shut.

Anthony Doerr

#58. Good God, she really did walk in circles. A pang of tenderness centered in Gabriel's chest like an ache.

He wanted all her circles to lead back to him.

Lisa Kleypas

#59. Therese could not think of a single question that would be proper to ask, because all her questions were so enormous.

Patricia Highsmith

#60. You don't really know how beautiful a girl is, until you meet her, all her beauty is in her personality.

Zac Efron

#61. A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

Emily Giffin

#62. Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

Seneca The Younger

#63. Kate approved of the child's father, and so did she. Kate all her life had championed the underdog, and so therefore did she. And what more oppressed puppy in all the world was she likely to find than this one?

Dorothy Dunnett

#64. It was all her fortune. It seemed to her very fine thus to throw it away.

Gustave Flaubert

#65. What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

Al Lewis

#66. She wanted to feel him pound away her fears, a hammer to smash through all her guilt and pain and emptiness.

Lara Adrian

#67. I glance back as I am pulling the door shut. I can see Mrs. Kasperek on her bed, in the apartment denuded of the books that were all her life.

Deborah Meyler

#68. We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore.

Cynthia Nixon

#69. (The sight of her bare feet. What this is doing to Willem's blood pressure. She might as well have taken off all her clothes.)

Gayle Forman

#70. I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.

Zoey Deutch

#71. Rule number one: never assume your mate spends all her time in the kitchen.

Nicky Charles

#72. When she went upstairs to dress, and looked into the looking glass, she noticed with joy that it was one of her good days, and that she was in complete possession of all her forces, - she needed this so for what lay before her: she was conscious of external composure and free grace in her movements.

Leo Tolstoy

#73. There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

Emma Lazarus

#74. Was she strong enough to allow both of them to be themselves? Bahama had instilled in her an honoring of promises, but she could not keep her promise unless she was willing to allow Nik to be Nik, not a projection of someone who could fill in all her empty spaces, heal all her wounds.

Madeleine L'Engle

#75. All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check. A woman
a lady
must be very, very careful of her actions so she did not put spark to the gunpowder that was a man's libido.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#76. She had appetites in plenty: she spent all her strength in repressing them and she underwent this denial in anger.

Simone De Beauvoir

#77. No mother loves all her children the same, not even the Mother Above.

George R R Martin

#78. No one has to know. No one would. It would be her secret, one she would share with the mountains only. The question is whether it is a secret she can live with, and Parwana thinks she knows the answer. She has lived with secrets all her life.

Khaled Hosseini

#79. The piety, the gentleness, the honesty, the sensitivity, all the qualities she has learned to admire in herself, are invitations to violence; all her life, she has been groomed for the slaughterhouse. And though she is virtuous, she does not know how to do good.

Angela Carter

#80. but truly there were times when the sadness of this world was scarcely to be endured, and the violence of love, Alma thought, was sometimes the most pitiless violence of all. Her

Elizabeth Gilbert

#81. Mollie Hunter was both a great friend and a very fine writer for children. She was fascinated by Scotland's history and its folklore - almost all her novels reflect her tremendous knowledge of both.

Joan Lingard

#82. It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default - like it was there all the time, and all her other expressions were just an array of masks she used to cover it up.

Laini Taylor

#83. What do you need me for? Salander's greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings. And all of a sudden all her carefully constructed self-confidence seemed to crumble.

Stieg Larsson

#84. It felt like she took off running without me. Her fingers clenched in on mine. Then relaxed, like she'd lost all her bones.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#85. 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.

Sherry Thomas

#86. A wife, domestic, good, and pure,
Like snail, should keep within her door;
But not, like snail, with silver track,
Place all her wealth upon her back.

Walsham How

#87. When Britney shaves off all her hair and beats paparazzi with umbrellas - that's what celebrities are supposed to do. They're not supposed to be reasonable, middle-aged guys drinking organic tea talking about semiotics.

Moby

#88. Ugh! Why couldn't anyone ever trust her? She wasn't a two-year-old. If her kindness killed her, then she was better off dead than living a cold, unfeeling life where she misered up all her feelings and possessions.' (Sunshine)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#89. My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all.

Lauren Bacall

#90. She grabbed all her clothes from her wardrobe and flung them across the room, screaming her head off until she finally felt sane again. Perhaps tomorrow she would buy those cats. (Holly)

Cecelia Ahern

#91. All her hopes of a future have been torn away from her again
and having those hopes, even briefly, makes this far more painful than not having had them at all.

Neal Shusterman

#92. Thus night with all her snares passed through the upper world and baited all heads sweetly, fed all foolish hopes, for night can bring to men all shrewish day denies, wrapped as a gift in the green leaves of opiate dream.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#93. Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

David Cameron

#94. She seemed shy, yet all her attention was focused on Magnus, as if he were the most fascinating thing she had ever seen. There was no man who did not want to see himself reflected like that in a beautiful girl's eyes.

Cassandra Clare

#95. Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.

Judith McNaught

#96. I love you as big as the ocean and all its fishes. As big as the sky and all its birds. As big as the earth and all her trees.

Susan Abulhawa

#97. Exalted by a sentiment of which she was proud, and that overcame all her arrogance, she was reluctant to let a moment of her life go by without occupying it with some remarkable deed.

Stendhal

#98. most prized of all, her secretaire, a Napoleon III desk, full of nooks and crannies and pigeonholes,

Edna O'Brien

#99. All her life, she was used to being pampered, to having everything she desired, but the things that she valued were never those that could be bought but those small tokens of truth and dogged fidelity which she, herself, could not give to anyone.

F. Sionil Jose

#100. I can't do this," she whispered.
He nodded. "I know."
"I want to but I--"
"It's okay." He brushed a kiss over her jaw and then was gone, proving for the second time now that he was, after all, her perfect Mr. All Wrong.

-Mallory and Ty

Jill Shalvis