Her Not Quotes

#1. I do sillier things sober, to be honest. I'm quite a silly person. Freya pulled my skirt up in a shop other day, I could've killed her - not literally, of course. But that was her not me.

Donna Air

#2. Her mother always told her, "If he hits you, then you leave," but Jack had never hit her, not with his fists.

Shannon Celebi

#3. I had given her a reassuring smile and patted her hand and told her not to worry, I wouldn't do anything stupid. It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.

Barack Obama

#4. No, I haven't fucked her. Not that I wouldn't love to. Trust me, if she didn't work for me, I'd hit that harder than Mohammed Ali.

Emma Chase

#5. Pandora. Zeus sends her off to marry Epimetheus, a not especially bright man she's never even met, along with a mysterious covered jar. Nobody tells Pandora a word about the jar. Nobody tells her not to open the jar. Naturally, she opens the jar.

Liane Moriarty

#6. Genya would have to keep her face hidden, but she didn't seem to mind. She'd wrapped her shawl around her head and declared, 'I shall be a woman of mystery.' I reminded her not to be too intriguing.

Leigh Bardugo

#7. I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy.
-white oleander

Janet Fitch

#8. The vicar gave him permission and he kissed her - not hard, for lust, nor long, for love, but a light brush of his lips for the brief space of time that she would stay in his life.

Courtney Milan

#9. That fiend! Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana's bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter; there was something in the right-hand corner of her mouth that wanted her not to call Peter names.

J.M. Barrie

#10. The way he looked all of her and saw all of her. Not the fairest. Not the princess. Just the girl she was. He knew her like no one else did, and she'd thought she'd knew everything about him, too. Who he was. What he'd do.

Sarah Cross

#11. He loves me
he loves me not
He loves her
He loves her not
He loves me
He loves me not
-I ran out of petals

Amanda Lovelace

#12. Whenever someone told her not to think about something, it had quite the opposite effect. Once she knew she shouldn't dwell on something, it took on even more importance in her mind.

Joanne Fluke

#13. You couldn't think of a single thing to do for her? Not with all your supposed ingenuity, your willingness to see the rules as profoundly optional?

Rob Thomas

#14. It felt as if she were bleeding - but it wasn't blood that leaked out of her, not something that could be easily transfused. Instead she was losing her dreams.

Kristin Hannah

#15. But I never loved her. Not the way I should've. Not the way I love you.

M. Leighton

#16. The song ended, but I kept my arms wrapped tight around her, not letting her move an inch. If she was having some internal battle again, she could do so in my arms.
"Watcha doing, wifey?" I joked, secretly enjoying the sound of that.

Karina Halle

#17. Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot.

Cate Tiernan

#18. Cecile made it sound like it was no big deal. "I've been fighting for freedom all my life." But she wasn't talking about protest signs, standing up to the Man, and knowing your rights. She was talking about her life. Just her. Not the people.

Rita Williams-Garcia

#19. What are you doing?" Angela complained. "Are you trying to make me jog? You know I think people who jog should be shot at midday."
"Why at midday?" Kami asked absently.
"There's no need to ever get up at dawn," Angela told her. "Not even to shoot joggers.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#20. The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

Emma Goldman

#21. Be free of her sinus headaches which have caused her not to appear before us on TV lately, and that those headaches not have anything

Philip K. Dick

#22. He loved her for her, not for what she was to him.

Mina Carter

#23. I'm going to find a way to fix you"
"I'm not broken", Amy says in a voice as empty as her eyes.
I lead her down the hall, deposit her in her chamber, and tell her not lo leave. I have no doubt she will follow my order.

Beth Revis

#24. I can't take any more of being careful around her. I want her. Not just for now, but for always. - HEW

Michelle Warren

#25. It was not just a touch, an action. It was a simplification of both of them: They were no longer Noah Czerny and Blue Sargent. They were now just him and her. Not even that. They were only the time that they held between them.

Maggie Stiefvater

#26. I have to say, old friend, you were supposed to help train her, not drop her off a cliff.

Brandon Sanderson

#27. Rose.It was her. Not some copy, not some actress. I knew it with every beat of my frantic heart. Then terror filled her eyes.

"Evelyn," she gasped. "He's in here - "

A hand appeared out of the shadows and clamped over her mouth. And she vanished.

Tarun Shanker

#28. Whether she knew it or not, she needed someone who believed in her, not everything else in this crazy house.

Sarah Addison Allen

#29. When she had asked him how he was able to kill two men with his bare hands, he had gone into asshole mode, telling her not to look a gift horse in the mouth.

Brad Taylor

#30. Jade?" He raised her chin with a finger when she didn't respond. She reluctantly returned his gaze, wanting the intensity in his eyes to be for her, not simply for the responsibility of her.

Brittney Joy

#31. She looked at him like it physically hurt her not to speak, and yet she stayed silent.

Dennis Sharpe

#32. Just curious. Like James and Victoria had been curious in the beginning? The thought of Victoria made me tremble, thought the one thing they seemed certain of was that it had not been her. Not this time. She would stick to her obsessed pattern. This was just someone else, a stranger.

Stephenie Meyer

#33. So I told her that I loved her, not for telling me the thing she had told me, but for the courage involved in telling something like it, something that sad.

Mark Leidner

#34. Look for her not in the valleys below, nor in the temple rooms. For she has gone, gone into the high passes, far beyond this dying moon.

Rebecca Carson

#35. Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all - and yet so desirable?

Margaret Mitchell

#36. If he didn't love her enough to risk everything then she didn't want him. She wanted a man who loved her and would do anything for her, not someone too scared to do anything about it.

R.L. Mathewson

#37. I walked over to her, not so much because I felt like I needed to be close to say what I needed to say, but because I hated to be on the other side of the room when I could be near her. It

Vi Keeland

#38. (I)t was Lady who saved my mother's life. Lady, who made it possible for her not only to walk away from my father, but also to keep going. Horses were my mother's religion. It was them she wanted to be with all those Sundays as a child, when she'd been made to put on dresses to go to mass.

Cheryl Strayed

#39. I looked up at Ellen and her not-glowing pentagram. Harm none is the rule, Ellen: bad witch, no cookie.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#40. That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. Good for her! Not for me.

Amy Poehler

#41. Report for the upcoming wedding. If we're going to be sneaking into New Beijing Palace while Levana is there, why don't we just assassinate her? Not to be all cold-wired murderer about it, but wouldn't that solve a lot of our problems?

Marissa Meyer

#42. He wanted her cooperation, her sympathy, her active and intellectual help. He wanted her, not her heart, but her brains, and those material advantages which birth had given her. - Alexandra Farraday

Agatha Christie

#43. (But he could not bring himself to say he loved her; not in so many words.)

Virginia Woolf

#44. Come get your apples! Chernobyl apples!' Someone told her not to advertise that, no one will buy them. 'Don't worry!' she says. 'They buy them anyway. Some need them for their mother-in-law, some for their boss.

Svetlana Alexievich

#45. For the record, kid, Summoning a demon to kidnap her, not the best way to meet a woman. It usually backfires on you.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#46. It was one of those limp conversations two people have who are never going to see each other again. She couldn't wait to get away from me, and I couldn't wait to get away from her. Not because we didn't like each other, but because there wasn't any point to our being together any longer.

M.E. Kerr

#47. -understand. She'll want to visit her family."
"If she does, it can only be for a day at the most. I don't approve of her, but the people are fond of her, not to mention the Italians. It would be very inconvenient if she died.

Kiera Cass

#48. I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world.

Leo Tolstoy

#49. In every laugh, he hears her, in every tear, he sees her. Not a mere reflection, the complete 'her'.

Faraaz Kazi

#50. To pity those that know her not
Is helped by the regret
That those who know her, know her less
The nearer her they get.

Emily Dickinson

#51. I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.

Charles Bronson

#52. She should laugh at such ambitions on his part: nothing about him held any romance for her, not his crown, not his black heart, not his beautiful liar's face.

Sherry Thomas

#53. He had tears in his eyes even as he told her not to cry.

Kamila Shamsie

#54. To be honest, I don't think you deserved her, but I don't think any of us deserved her really. She was always going to be the smartest, kindest, funniest, loyalest person we would ever meet, and the fact of her not being here well it just isn't right

David Nicholls

#55. - he took her in his arms and cradled her; offering her not God's comfort but his own, merely human, consolation.

Alan Brennert

#56. Azazello begged her not to worry, assuring her that he had seen not only naked women but also women with their skin flayed clean off

Mikhail Bulgakov

#57. In addition, he was surprised to admit, he trusted her not to stab him in his sleep. These seemed like good qualities to have in a wife.

Kel Kade

#58. To see her is a picture-
To hear her is a tune-
To know her an Intemperance
As innocent as June-
To know her not-Affliction-
To own her for a Friend
A warmth as near as if the the Sun
Were shining in your Hand.

Emily Dickinson

#59. but she was damn sure he should be in love with her - not some spindly-limbed, slant-eyed, pointy-eared elf bitch.

Anonymous

#60. Clary curled up on the ground seeing in front of her not the shell of a destroyed town but the eyes of the brother and the sister that she would never have.

Cassandra Clare

#61. Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

Morris Raphael Cohen

#62. In a way, I was incrediibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).

Meg Cabot

#63. And they're smiling at her, not half-smiles either, but full-on total-face smiles that are only partly fake.

Margaret Atwood

#64. There had seemed no other way to view her, not until that moment when he'd fallen from the window. Rude shock: running down the lawn, the turf exploding from the bullets' impact, he had wondered, only once and without understanding his own feeling of loss, exactly what he was leaving behind.

Meredith Duran

#65. I loved her not for the way she danced with my angels, but for the way the sound of her name could silence my demons

Christopher Poindexter

#66. If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#67. If the angel deigns to come it will be because you have convinced her, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning; to be a beginner.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#68. She was lucky if he stood behind her. Not so lucky if he came to crush her. And a woman might only learn the truth of it - when he walked out of her life.
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Lenore Wolfe

#69. Relax. You're in good hands. Tabby wont hurt you.
She stabbed me!
Damn! I told her not to stab any more Hunters. I hate it when she does that.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#70. You must be a terrible burden to your mother. I am feeling so sorry for her not to have a proper daughter.
Mrs. Apusenja - To the Nines

Janet Evanovich

#71. Miss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and Brenda giggled about on the telephone. This was too real and too deep to talk about, even to think about very much.

Katherine Paterson

#72. More people care about you than you know, Scarlet. No matter how you got your scars." I covered my cheek, looking at her. "Not just those scars. The ones that make you think you're unlovable.

A.C. Gaughen

#73. She turned towards me, put her fingertips against my chest. She was enjoying it somewhat, too, the little betrayal of Mark's memory. She still loved him, differently; now and again there must be these retrospective cruelties, to consolidate her newness, to let her not love him in the old way.

Glen Duncan

#74. They are all so beautiful,' she said.
He looked down at her. 'Not half so beautiful as you are,' he said. 'Nor do they speak to me, nor touch me. Even Fourpaws will not touch me. Beauty, will you marry me?

Robin McKinley

#75. Came to her, not the athletic, graceful leopard of the ballroom at Hanford House but her very own wounded animal. Her husband. Her lover. Her best friend.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#76. Layne knew he was in love with her. Not only that, he'd never stopped loving her. Not once, not for a second, not for twenty-one years.
Fuck him.

Kristen Ashley

#77. He moved against her. Not in a hungry-for- food way, but in a hungry-for-her way.

Robin Bielman

#78. Then he kissed her, not just a brush of lips as she'd done, but a kiss a kiss that scalded her tongue. The tree burst into full blooms. The garden fluttered around her. A riot of flowers shot out of the earth. She was mud-covered as he pulled back.

Melissa Marr

#79. I would never trust her. Not one hundred percent. Not the way some people can trust their mothers.

Jacqueline Woodson

#80. Mrs. Carter raised her chin. "The essence of a lady comes from within," she said in a gentle but firm tone. "A lady can wear rags, but as long as she holds her head up and carries herself proudly, people will see her, not her clothing.

Debra Holland

#81. A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.

Keith Miller

#82. It's not about slaying monsters," he told her. "Not these days. I think it's about learning to live with them. Anyway who says we're the good guys?" "I

Robert Dunbar

#83. Her eyes register the darkness beyond the windows, then travel back to the neglected groceries. Something in her sags. And for a moment, I see her. Not the watts-too-bright, smile-till-it-hurts her, but the real one. The mother who lost her little boy.

Victoria Schwab

#84. If you really dig a chick, you should talk to her, not steal her picture.

Michael Nesmith

#85. It reveals that people are confusing."
Rovender corrected her. "Not Confusing. Complex.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#86. "Then what do you see?" asked Irene, who perceived at once that for her not to believe him was at least as bad as for him not to believe her.

George MacDonald

#87. And I wanted this girl who was like no girl I had ever known, wanted her not in spite of her moods and her secret bruises and her sad attempts at artifice but because of them, because of them all.

Tana French

#88. That's my girl," she said, her eyes holding a shared pain as she saw my confusion. "Al, where are you going to put her? Not in your room. She'd pull a line through you and kill you when you hog the blankets. I'll take the waif in. I promise I'll bring this one up properly.

Kim Harrison

#89. I'm here, Dr. Fein, because it upsets my mom that I'm having an impossible time with my life." "Should it upset her?" "Not really. Life is impossible.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#90. He sighed heavily for effect.

"I don't think my wife would like me talking about her. Not with the trial around the corner.

R.L. Mathewson

#91. None of us mattered to her, not me, or her critics or defenders. No more than bugs on a lampshade.

Alice Munro

#92. From the first that was a part of his attraction to her: not her brokenness but her potential for being mended and, even more, the challenge that mending her would pose. He

Michael Chabon

#93. It's not that I don't like my mum's face; it's just that it belongs on her, not me.

Dawn French

#94. His mother is dead, yet she has never not been, in theory, at his shoulder. He wants her not to have known and suffered or even witnessed all the things that followed her death. Including all this now. But that would be like wishing her dead. Merely dead.

Graham Swift

#95. Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing ... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.

Vikram Seth

#96. She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known

William Shakespeare

#97. When you think she deserves someone better? When you can't imagine being the one who actually gets to keep her? That's how you know you're the one who deserves her. Not some asshole in a puffy shirt carrying a sword.

Tessa Bailey

#98. It was the least she could do. For Nehemia - for. . . a lot of other people. There was nothing left in her, not really. Only ash and an abyss and the unbreakable vow she'd carved into her flesh, to the friend who had seen her for what she truly was.

Sarah J. Maas

#99. He scooped up Victoria practically before she hit the ground, well within the five-second rule. If she'd been a potato chip, he could have still eaten her. Not something I particularly wanted to contemplate.

Josh Lanyon

#100. He should talk to her - not on the phone where so much could be hidden, but face to face. He wanted to see her. Look into her eyes, no matter how painful, and find the truth.

Jennifer Beckstrand