Said But Quotes

#1. You can kiss me if you like," she said.
Alex let go of her and turned away. "Thanks, Fiona," he said. "But frankly I'd prefer to kiss the horse.

Anthony Horowitz

#2. We'll let that be plan A." Nick said. "But you know as well as I do that plan A often gets fucked when it meets reality.

Laura Kaye

#3. anyway," I said. "But I'll do my best to play John the Baptist for you." Dur

Dan Simmons

#4. We knew you were hurting," Gelert said. "But sometimes - that idiom about being there for somebody, actually just means to be there. Doing anything, saying anything, sometimes you know it'll hurt them worse than just being quiet, and being close.

Diane Duane

#5. You know what I hate about you?" "My hat?" "That too," Holden said. "But mostly it's that I hate everything you say, but you're not always wrong.

James S.A. Corey

#6. Wise is the man who learns the nonverbal language of his wife, who notes the nod and discerns the gestures. It's not just what is said, but how. It's not just how, but when. It's not just when, but where. Good husbanding is good decoding. You've got to read the signs.

Max Lucado

#7. You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.

Jose Bergamin

#8. Hermes, we love you," Hades said, "but you rarely do as you're told, and you always do as you wish, and I haven't the slightest idea what you'd do with an immortality fruit, but I'm sure it would be both creative and disastrous.

Molly Ringle

#9. Nice is nice," Hayter-Ross said. "But being a bitch gets results.

John Scalzi

#10. I like to be direct." "Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages." "I doubt it." "Human interaction is not my strong point," I told him.

E. Lockhart

#11. Carter, not to be unkind," I said, "but the last few months you've been seeing messages about Zia everywhere. Two weeks ago, you thought she was sending you a distress call in your mashed potatoes."
"It was a Z! Carved right in the potatoes!

Rick Riordan

#12. Once we're out of the Wood ... , I said, but my voice died in my throat. I felt odd and sick. Did you ever get out of the Wood, if you'd been in it for twenty years?

Naomi Novik

#13. He continued to look into my eyes, a lot was being said but not in words.

Elise Icten

#14. I do want to believe that there's some place in the world that's more mature than high school," Vicky said. "But I haven't found it yet.

Leila Sales

#15. When I was in Africa, this voice came to me and said, Richard, what do you see? I said, I see all types of people. The voice said, But do you see any niggers? I said, No. It said, Do you know why? 'Cause there aren't any.

Richard Pryor

#16. Happiness isn't always easy," he'd said. "But it's a priority.

Goldy Moldavsky

#17. No homework. I got suspended," Blue replied.
"Get the fuck out," Ronan said, but with admiration. "Sargent, you asshole.

Maggie Stiefvater

#18. Stars are better off without us," he said, but too softly for anyone but Julie to hear.

James S.A. Corey

#19. I wish stories were kinder to their characters," Maddie said. "But I guess trouble is more interesting to read about.

Shannon Hale

#20. She smiled then, a small smile of such aching sadness that it was hard to look at. "You think I don't love my son," she said. "But I do." "It is because I love him that I will not let him put himself beyond redemption.

Leigh Bardugo

#21. No words were said, but everything was spoken.

Lora Lindy

#22. She grinned, a silty grin. 'You were my two dividends, yes? Don't you forget that.'
Then she sighed, took a deep breath, and said, 'But what an investment. My life.

Jerry Pinto

#23. You are soft person you said. But you're soft as shit: it is very soft but stinking!

Ilze Falb

#24. You can't help everyone, Arlen," Ragen said, "but you should make every
effort to help those you can.

Peter V. Brett

#25. Mathematically, maybe," I said. "But trust isn't one of those things that lends itself well to math." "Sure it does," Bob said. "You trust somebody, they betray you, you get a negative value. You never trust, they can never disappoint you, you break even.

Jim Butcher

#26. He closed his eyes. 'Don't,' he said, but she could hear despair in his voice. It made her even angrier. It made her want to live down to his expectations.

Holly Black

#27. But when the other end of the line picked up, it was his voicemail that answered, not the man himself. "I know how devastated you must be to miss me," his cheery voice said, "but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony as soon as possible.

Richelle Mead

#28. In some ways you are as sentimental as Richard,' she said. 'But you could kill us, all of us, even Stephen's brother, and feel nothing.'
I met her honey brown eyes and said, 'I'd feel something.'
'What?' she asked.
'Safer,' I said.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#29. That's what they say," Jun Do said. "But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done." The

Adam Johnson

#30. The chances of anyone colonizing Mars are a million to one!" Or so the newspapers said. But still we came.

G.H. Finn

#31. I am a slow walker," Lincoln said. "But I never walk backwards.

Rick Pitino

#32. Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.

Leonard Cohen

#33. I'll take him to the hospital " Bernardo said "but what do we put on the paperwork "
"Tell them it was a lover's quarrel " Olaf said.
"Over my dead body " I said.
"Eventually " he said.
"Don't be a sick fuck Olaf " I said.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#34. Tone. "All right," she said, "but how do I go about being a boy?

John Steinbeck

#35. What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.

Peter Brodie

#36. But wasn't that progress too, that the elephants were killed off like the mastodon and giant rhino before them, like all other wildlife and wild places? 'We can't stop time,' MacAdam said. 'But you can change the way it goes,' Nehemiah insisted.

Mike Bond

#37. What do you need?" Vadderung asked.
"Advice," I said. "If the price is right."
"And what do you think a sufficient price would be?"
"Lucy charges a nickel."
"Ah," Vadderung said. "But Lucy is a psychiatrist. You realize that you've just cast yourself as Charlie Brown."
"Augh," I said.

Jim Butcher

#38. I can only speak for myself," I said. "But there are none that I have ever loved who I no longer love.

Patricia Briggs

#39. I can't promise we'll ever use you for a hasty getaway," Cole said, "but with a little work, you might be able to race my grandmother-while she's on her scooter.

Gena Showalter

#40. He's an intricate, mesmerizing puzzle; I only succeeded at putting the pieces together because for once in my life I observed. I stopped talking long enough to listen - really listen - not just to what's said, but also to everything that goes unspoken.

Jody Gehrman

#41. The critic said, but don't you feel awkward about biting the hand that feeds you? I said no, I enjoy just gnawing it up to the shoulder.

Myles Horton

#42. Don't go yet, he said, but it was never any use saying don't go yet to her. When she'd decided a thing, she was on her way.

Margaret Atwood

#43. Kingsley, before you say anything that could land you or me in jail, you should know you're on speaker phone with your fan club," Nora said. "Did you know you had a fan club?"
"Non," he said. "But I'm not surprised.

Tiffany Reisz

#44. The earth was our home, she would have said, but no less was it home to the oxen that pulled our plows or the elephants that roamed in the forest and worked for us. They lived with us as partners whose well-being was inseparable from our own.

Eknath Easwaran

#45. It sounds like the cry of a newborn demon ready to destroy all peace and love!" Dietmar said. "But I believe it is merely a bagpipe.

Michael Grant

#46. We'll let the B and E slide," Quirk said. "But corpses keep showing up in your area, we might cite you for littering.

Robert B. Parker

#47. The world has moved on,' we say ... we've always said. But it's moving on faster now. Something has happened to time.

Stephen King

#48. Injustice alway captures the attention of the young," she said. "But as we get older we discover how difficult it is to change the world, and we learn to turn our eyes away from what we can't fix until we no longer see injustice at all.

Trudi Canavan

#49. Brookie was a good boy," she said, "but he did not grow up to be a good man. He had the fatal gift of making people believe him.

Alan Bradley

#50. Then Gansey said, very slowly, "Ronan, you're never going to talk to Jane like that again."
Both Adam and Blue stared at Gansey, who concentrated his gaze on his napkin. It wasn't what he said but how he looked at no one when he said it that made the moment strange.

Maggie Stiefvater

#51. I thought the trees down in Lady Zelana's country were about as big as a tree could get," he said, "but the ones around here are so tall that they probably tickle the moon's tummy when she goes by.

David Eddings

#52. You can't help what you feel, Moira once said, but you can help how you behave.

Margaret Atwood

#53. I may not be happy," she said, "but I will be.

Margo Lanagan

#54. Irial!"
"Still here." Irial didn't open his eyes, but he smiled a little.
"You're an ass," Niall said, but he kept his hands on Irial's chest so that he could feel both pulse and breath.
"You too, Gancanagh," Irial murmured.

Melissa Marr

#55. I take it you don't believe in love at first sight." "Does anyone over the age of thirteen? Do you?" "I don't, no," Darcy said. "But I don't rule out for others what I haven't experienced firsthand.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#56. don't bite the hand that feeds you, they said. but, what if they are chewing mine off?

Shareca Cole.

#57. They promised me I could look all I want." It raised the mallet again. "Yes, they promise," Danny said, "but they lie.

Stephen King

#58. The art depicts duplicity and depravity," he said, "but its purpose is to counteract the human tendency to fill in the blanks with goodness. We do that instinctively, and in ignorance, to compensate for breaches of the soul so deplorable that we can barely fathom them." I

Anne McAneny

#59. Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity.

Carl Hiaasen

#60. Coffee or orange juice?"
"Water is fine."
His eyebrows went up.
"Uh-oh," Auriele said, but she was smiling.
Darryl was not. "Are you implying that my coffee is not the best in four counties? Or my fresh-squeezed orange juice is less than perfect?

Patricia Briggs

#61. A nightmare is something you awaken from, Peter," she had said. "But thoughts and ideas that remain after its terrors have disappeared are something considerably worse.

John Katzenbach

#62. It might not have been Mike,' she said, 'but somebody left something somewhere.'

I couldn't really argue with that. It was as succinct a summing up of the seeming randomness of events in life as I had ever heard.

Bob Tarte

#63. You don't know that." He made a face, doubting this. "You don't. You have your whole life ahead of you."
"Maybe," he said. "But even that's not long to be the person she deserves.

Sarah Dessen

#64. I love you," said Bekka.

"I know," I said.

"I know you know," she said. "But I didn't know that you knew I knew you knew. And now I do.

Scott Alexander

#65. I thought that all magic has its price.'
'Magic does,' Faey said. 'But let us consider this an exchange of knowledge. I'll tell you what you want to know and you'll tell me why you want to know it.

Patricia A. McKillip

#66. The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation ... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

Bernard Cornwell

#67. I wish I knew I was doing this right," Cheris said, "but there's nothing to it but to move forward."

"The only unforgivable sin in war is standing still," Jedao said. "It's better to be doing the wrong thing wholeheartedly than freeze.

Yoon Ha Lee

#68. But doesn't love cause too much pain?" she said. "To be worth it?" "It causes pain, indeed," Grumpy said. "But it's worth it. It's a good pain.

Odette Beane

#69. Owl felt happy as he filled his cup. It tastes a little bit salty, he said, but tear-drop tea is always very good.

Arnold Lobel

#70. I just remembered something you said when we first talked. That your pain only went away when you started thinking about others." "Not just that," Ayub said. "But when I found God."

Karan Mahajan

#71. I love you, I said, but not out loud.

Craig Clevenger

#72. Are we star-crossed?" I asked quietly, a whisper.
"Yes," he said. "But I would fight against the stars for you.

Luna Lacour

#73. He tried to get drunk, "to forget about life for awhile," as that old
Billy Joel song once said, but the scotch couldn't anesthetize his pain
and provide a retreat from the reality of his latest failures.

Keith Steinbaum

#74. I wish I could teach you how to live happily ever after, Petra," she said, "but that is something you will have to learn on your own.

Marie Rutkoski

#75. Not that I lack confidence in the outcome," Ferrin said, "but would you consider entrusting the piece of my neck to somebody who is not about to confront one of the most deadly beings in the world?

Brandon Mull

#76. To replace bricks with bricks is restoration," he said. "But to replace bricks with hewn stone is defiance. To rebuild what was destroyed is restoration, but to boast of rebuilding stronger and greater than before is defiance.

Jonathan Cahn

#77. Throughout her life, whenever Mom was sad or confuse or disoriented, she could never concentrate on television, she said, but always sought refuge in a book. Books focused her mind, calmed her, took her outside of herself; television jangled her nerves.

Will Schwalbe

#78. Idea, " he said, "but before I tell you what it is, I think we have to agree on whether or not we have business to do here. Do we want to try again to do what we tried to do once before? Do we want to try to kill It again? Or do we just divide the check up six ways and go back to what we were doing?

Stephen King

#79. It's outrageous, one woman said, but without belief. What was it about this that made us feel we deserved it? When

Margaret Atwood

#80. Oh I don't know,' he said. 'But maybe, maybe love should be a kind of journey

Anthony McDonald

#81. A lovely young girl lies on a bed in the dark listening to a fairy tale," I said. "But she's naked and the storyteller's hands are all over her.

Glen Duncan

#82. You never get over it", she said, "but you get where it doesn't bother you so much".

Jeffrey Eugenides

#83. A bad thing happened to you kids, Dad said. But it could have been worse.
So much worse, Mom said.
But because of you kids, Dad said, it wasn't.
You did so good, Mom said.
Did beautiful, Dad said.

George Saunders

#84. He wants people to become true Christians by following him, not just doing what he said but letting him live in our lives.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#85. So, what are you doing with my little sister today?" Daniel asked. I closed my eyes in defeat.
"I'm afraid I can't ruin the surprise," Noah said. "But I promise I'll return her intact."
He did not just say that. Daniel cackled

Michelle Hodkin

#86. I would let you hold him," Jane said, "but I'm pretty sure letting-ghosts-hold-my-baby is not on Abby's approved list of things to accomplish in life.

Allie Burke

#87. A nameless soldier dies without mourning," Kell said, "but a brother killed in battle leaves an immeasurable scar.

Ben Hale

#88. You were ready to throw your life away," Kian said. "But are you brave enough to change it?

Ann Aguirre

#89. I don't know much about cars," Joyce said, "but I think someone took my engine.

Janet Evanovich

#90. I made a concerned effort to focus. There was something I needed to say. The most important thing.
I love you," I said, but it sounded like singing. My voice rang and shimmered like a bell.
As i love you,"He told me.

Stephenie Meyer

#91. No," Roland said, "but it's a fair tale. Tell it to the end, please." Eddie did, finishing with the required They lived happily ever after, and the gunslinger nodded. "No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don't we?" "Yeah," Jake said.

Stephen King

#92. At least," Mother said, "that's the story Aunt Esther tells."
"What do you mean?" I asked. "Isn't it true?"
"Stories are never 'true'," Mother said. "But they may, almost by accident, contain 'truth'. Sometimes.

Joyce Carol Oates

#93. Will, you look like hell!" I yelled through the glass door.
"I can't say how you look," he said. "But if you look like you sound, you look like a jerk. Please help me.

Alex Flinn

#94. We can try to run," he said. "But one day we must all face our past.

G.R. Mannering

#95. I've caused you pain, and I'm sorry for it,' she said. 'But perhaps that pain will keep you from forgetting me.

Valerie Martin

#96. We all got to die," she said. "But dying as your true self is always better. God'll take you however you come to Him. But it's easier on a soul to come to Him clean. You're forever free that way. From top to bottom.

James McBride

#97. Sometimes, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation. "I hate everything about our lives right now, Klaus," she said, "but we have to keep our chin up." This was an expression the children's father had used, and it meant "try to stay cheerful." -P. 32

Lemony Snicket

#98. People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#99. Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

Dean Koontz

#100. The lie detector didn't react to anything I said, but I wouldn't dare smile.

Embee