Top 100 She Spoke Quotes
#1. What was striking about Ms. Wilson, and was also true of the other outsiders who volunteered their time that day, was that she spoke to us prisoners with great respect, as if our lives ahead had hope and meaning and possibility. After all these months at Danbury, this was a shocking novelty.
Piper Kerman
#2. When we destroy it." She spoke clearly now, steadily now. "If it comes in a form with a dick, I will personally castrate it".
Nora Roberts
#3. Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.
Chris Christie
#4. Her mouth was right on his ear, and she spoke her wicked thoughts aloud. "I want you inside me."
That was it. With a violent growl, he snapped. "Damn you, Elizabeth.
Monica McCarty
#5. She seemed to Bond to give a quick involuntary shrug of the shoulders as she spoke, but then she leant impulsively towards him. 'I have some news for you from Mathis. He was longing to tell you himself. It's about the bomb. It's a fantastic story.
Ian Fleming
#6. She spoke under her breath to Nick. "Is there a reason he's only wearing one sock?" "He puked on his foot." "Oh." She turned back to Huxley. "Can we get you another sock? Maybe a blanket or something?
Julie James
#7. As she spoke, she watched the expressions on the faces go from incredulous shock, to hopeful belief, and finally to awestruck acceptance
Dan Brown
#8. When she spoke, Tom held his breath, so eagerly he listened; when she sang, he sat like one entranced. She touched his organ, and from that bright epoch even it, the old companion of his happiest hours, incapable as he had thought of elevation, began a new and deified existence.
Charles Dickens
#9. She spoke as if she belonged to an anti-sausage society or a league for the suppression of eggs.
P.G. Wodehouse
#10. His kisses were so mind-numbing that when Blake said, "Car door," it took Livia a few seconds to remember she spoke English.
"Dad. Oh. My dad's home.
Debra Anastasia
#11. Tears began to surge up into her eyes, and she found herself doubling up her fists, with the thumbs inside, as she had done as a child; she felt her jaw wobble, and when she spoke her voice could hardly be heard.
Philip K. Dick
#12. His eyes went soft and silver as she spoke. "Zhe shi jie shang, wo shi zui ai ne de," he whispered.
She understood it. In all the world, you are what I love the most.
Cassandra Clare
#13. I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.'
'Treated like what?'
She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.
David Nicholls
#14. He knew it the minute she spoke. He knew that was all he needed, those two soft words with her limbs wrapped around him and, God help him, he'd do anything for her.
Kristen Ashley
#15. She spoke with the usual cadences of the young: sentences curling upward at the end, all statements fading into a smoky, implied question mark, as though nothing could be said with any reasonable certainty.
Laura Kalpakian
#16. the smattering of candles about the dark room gave the illusion of dancing in starlight. The moment made her believe that if she spoke her desires aloud, they might actually come true.
Sarah MacLean
#17. Everything about her always seemed to dance. Her lips as she spoke, her eyes as she laughed, even her hands as she made the cup of coffee I just ordered.
Holli True
#18. For the murder of Jest, the court joker of Hearts, I sentence this man to death.'
She spoke without feeling, unburdened by love or dreams or the pain of a broken heart. It was a new day in Hearts, and she was the Queen.
'Off with his head
Marissa Meyer
#19. She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn't understand us at all.
Bob Hope
#20. If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.
Jodi Picoult
#21. And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#22. Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke.
"Yes, a little
but not on land
and not with needles
" Alice was beginning to say.
Lewis Carroll
#23. As she spoke, her voice never wavered; it was the voice of someone who has forced a larger meaning out of tragedy. Or
Barack Obama
#24. The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.
Scott Westerfeld
#25. She spoke fast, and seemed to be a combination of stressed out and on the verge of cracking up, which was a mixture I wasn't sure I'd ever seen before.
Morgan Matson
#26. Franca smiled to herself for a time before she spoke. My heart belongs to someone.
Terry Goodkind
#27. She spoke throught her teeth. "Almost, dear. What were the real words you used? The bad words. It's okay to say them again, just this once."
I shrugged, "fine. I said' ... just 'cause Daddy wants you to suck on his ding-a-ling.
Michael Siemsen
#28. Gotten butt-ass, bone-dog naked for your vadge-cam?" Dante offered with an angelic smile, standing close.
"Fucking hell, D." Griff turned to Beth with an apology, but she spoke first.
"Huh-yeah. Thanks, cockbreath.
Damon Suede
#29. She. Spoke. To. Him. First. It was like winning the lottery, getting laid, and climbing the highest cliff all rolled into one. But he needed to play it cool, becase he was trending into lame-o land at a quick pace.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#30. When she spoke his name, Beloved, he believed she meant it. He spoke of an adolescence I envied. Pampered, praised, educated . . . any child's dream. But we all awake from dreams.
Robin Hobb
#31. OK - answer me this: why would anyone want to wear an overcoat in San Francisco in the middle of summer?" Sophie Newman pressed her fingers against the Bluetooth earpiece as she spoke. On
Michael Scott
#32. They tended to give a little start when she spoke, as if the potted plant had tried to join in the conversation.
Liane Moriarty
#33. She spoke with a different sort of determination, calmer, as if it were no longer necessary to fight to the death for every little thing.
Elena Ferrante
#34. She looked at me and the first words that she spoke were: 'I love you.
Ayn Rand
#35. She spoke Basque, which is a language which rarely makes any impression upon the brains of any other race, so that a man may hear it as often and as long as he likes, but never afterwards be able to recall a single syllable of it.
Susanna Clarke
#36. What are you?" she asked, her nose scrunching as she spoke. "Other than a heart-stopping hot guy with obvious boundary issues and problems with anger management?
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#37. As she spoke, Isabel found herself thinking of the power of words. A single word, a phrase, a sentence or two could have such extraordinary power; could end a world, break a heart or, as in this case, consign another to moral purdah.
Alexander McCall Smith
#38. But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?
J.R.R. Tolkien
#39. That dress makes me want to do bad things to you."
There was a long pause in which her sweet honeysuckle scent grew, twisting around him. Finally she spoke, her voice low. "What kinds of things?
Katie Reus
#40. The country she had taken for granted as her own, where she had been born, whose language alone she spoke, had rejected her and despised her.
Pearl S. Buck
#41. Do you know that most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death?" Rachel raised a skeptical brow as she spoke. "Let's just say, I've lost interest." -Being Brave Again
Anais Torres
#42. Auntie Ann's voice cracked when she spoke, like a piano that hasn't been played in too long. "I try not to dwell on what's dead and gone. It has a way of showing back up if it thinks it's been invited.
Jennifer L. Greene
#43. He didn't know what was hotter, her Star Wars reference or the breathiness with which she spoke it.
Kelly Moran
#44. There are indeed ducks in Blackford Pond." "On it," muttered Isabel. "What?" "On the pond. There are ducks on the pond. There are fish in it." Even as she spoke, Isabel had no idea why she was being so pedantic, and
Alexander McCall Smith
#45. I think you have to be fair, Mr Greatrix. To treat people as kindly as you'd want those closest to you to be treated. I might be your tenant but I'm also your friend and neighbour.'
Someone once said to her that when she spoke she made people feel naked against the world.
Sunjeev Sahota
#46. She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do.
Jack Kerouac
#47. Let's just give her a ride into town," Suzanne said.
She spoke briskly, like I was a mess that needed to be cleaned up. Even so, I was glad. I was used to thinking about people who never thought about me.
Emma Cline
#48. I love you, she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest. This, at least, had not been left behind at the hospital.
Augusten Burroughs
#49. Help me, Mother,' Peggy said, and tears came to her eyes as they always did when she spoke to her, because she would never get over the emptiness of a world that no longer held her mother.
Peggielene Bartels And Eleanor Herman
#50. I love you, Lochlan," she said, hating the fact that her voice broke as she spoke the words. "I will always love you and you alone.
Kinley MacGregor
#51. She spoke to him of her problems, and that made him forget his own. She told him that he was intelligent, thoughtful, becoming, and deeply magnetic - everything he wanted so badly for her to see in him. Attention is the greatest gift when you're too afraid to pay it to yourself, the wind ruminates.
Samuel Armen
#52. She spoke seven languages, including Mandarin and Polish, and was finishing up her master's in Intercultural Misunderstanding, which just has to be Europe's next growth industry.
Michael Lewis
#53. When she spoke at last, I knew at once that she was rather drunk. "Seen something you fancy, Nancy? ... " she said.
I swallowed, unsure of what reply to make to her. She walked closer, then stopped a few paces from me, and continued to fix me with the same even, arrogant gaze.
Sarah Waters
#54. My playing had called to another human being at last. Surely, she could be no other than my own true love.
Slowly, I got to my feet.
Speak to me, I thought.
And as if she'd heard me, the young woman's lips parted and she spoke thus:
Have you lost your mind?
Cameron Dokey
#55. She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.
Homer
#56. But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.
Charles Dickens
#57. Sitting watching Anna's eyelids flicker some hours later, Lib found herself longing for the sleep she should have had that afternoon. But this was an old battle, and like any nurse, she knew she could win if she spoke to herself severely enough. The
Emma Donoghue
#58. Like most people who live on the edge, she spoke with two accents, neither authentic.
Madawi Al-Rasheed
#59. A film closed over the past as she spoke, a barrier as brittle and fragile as ice forming. It would grow and strengthen. It would become impenetrable, opaque.
Kim Edwards
#60. Odette nodded at my notebook, where I was writing as she spoke. 'Do the people in America really want to read this? People tell me to write these things down, but it's written inside of me. I almost hope for the day when I can forget.
Philip Gourevitch
#61. By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed ...
Margaret Deland
#62. The more she spoke, the better she felt. Like Ben said, they were finally on the same page.
Nicola Sinclair
#63. There were similarities too. Brooklyn. Like the swaggering lyricist, this tiny Jewish grandmother who demanded patience as she spoke could also pack a verbal punch.
Irin Carmon
#64. As she spoke, the dice started tumbling inside his head.
Robert Jordan
#65. How strange that a girl could trouble your inmost soul so long as she kept her mouth shut, and that the moment she spoke the glamour could vanish as though it had never been.
Agatha Christie
#66. The look I wore must have shocked her, for she turned her gaze back to Lord Golden. She spoke uncertainly. Amber, my friend. Aren't you glad to see me?
Robin Hobb
#67. Pearl spent the passing days buried so deep in the musty, dusty sorcery tomes that sometimes when she emerged, she spoke in archaic english. "Hast thou a light?" she'd asked him this afternoon when her study room had grown dark with gathering clouds.
Gail Dayton
#68. It was impossible to escape her. She provided no natural break in the conversation, and she spoke with such intensity that I would have had to abruptly shout "SHUT THE FUCK UP," punch her, and then run away in order to be free.
Augusten Burroughs
#69. She rubbed her eyes, and after a long study of his face, she spoke
"Is it really you?"
Is it from your cheek, she thought, that I took the seed?
The man nodded.
His heart wobbled and he held tighter to the branches.
It is.
Markus Zusak
#70. Her laugh. The way she smoked before she gave up. Smoke trickling up her nostrils. Spokes of smoke when she spoke.
Craig Raine
#72. She was looking right at me, shaking her head, and I told myself she was wrong, so wrong, even as she spoke. You're a goner.
Sarah Dessen
#73. When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together despite overwhelming odds but might let go again at any moment.
Terry Pratchett
#74. But through it all I held Mrs. Pettibone's words in my heart-the ones she spoke to me after the funeral when she took my hand, looked into my face and said, You've got your father's eyes.
Joan Bauer
#75. When she spoke even now, after forty years, among the slurred consonants and the flat vowels of the land where her life had been cast, New England talked as plainly as it did in the speech of her kin who had never left New Hampshire
William Faulkner
#76. She said I would find Oswald out in the grounds, and such is a mother's love that she spoke as if that were a bit of a boost for the grounds and an inducement to go there.
P.G. Wodehouse
#77. I decided that for me, Akosua, I will be my own nation."
As James listened to her speak, he felt something well up inside him as it had never done before. If he could, he would listen to her speak forever. If he could, he would join that nation she spoke of.
Yaa Gyasi
#78. She spoke slowly and breathlessly but she was smiling a happy smile. We stepped up and hugged her. She felt cold and frail and insubstantial. She felt like she weighed less than her aluminum walker.
Lee Child
#79. I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said.
"It would look stunning, My Lady," she called.
She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.
Kristin Cashore
#80. How is it that she spoke to you of such things?" Quintana asked.
"Oh, you know. She opened her mouth and words came out.
Melina Marchetta
#81. The truth is that she spoke about her misfortune without any shame in order to cover up the other misfortune, the real one, that was burning in her insides.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#82. He dropped his arms on the bed and peered over at Jenna.
She lay on her side facing him, hand tucked under her chin, not looking the least bit settled or relaxed.
"Whatchu need?"
"You." She spoke the word without and hesitation, any doubt, any seeming self-consciousness.
Laura Kaye
#83. If you feel you must become a 'dragon man'," she chuckled as she spoke. "Then I will be by your side every step of the way.
Julia Mills
#84. Do you think, Daniel," she said to him, rolling over onto her back so that she was able to look out of the window while she spoke, "that we might have reached the end of our story?
Maggie O'Farrell
#85. What exactly do you do Kosse?" I ask keeping my tone blunt she looked at me and smiled before she spoke "Well blowing things up is my speciality." she said smugly it's nice to know that Kosse but you must have other skills besides that I think
Charon Lloyd-Roberts
#86. She spoke quietly then, the tiniest crack in her voice, and all at once Lacey Pemerton was not Lacey Pemberton. She was just - like, a person.
John Green
#87. You don't know the beginning of me." She trembled as she spoke. "And . . . you will never see the end.
Renee Ahdieh
#88. We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.
Willard Boyle
#89. So" he asked.
She was stunned and amazed-and happier than she'd ever been before. It couldn't possibly be real, she thought-unless she spoke the truth aloud, with Daniel and the rest of the fallen angels there to witness.
"I'm Lucinda," she said. "I'm your angel.
Lauren Kate
#90. She spoke in the same quiet and unnerving way as she had in the war council, and with the same effect: Liraz spoke, and truth was born.
Laini Taylor
#91. She spoke the language of the Scottish Highlands (which is like singing).
Susanna Clarke
#92. Keep your hands off me. She spoke viciously, through her teeth, and he caught a glimpse of her deVere ancestry.
She was a virago in tiny, fragile, fairy form.
Christina Brooke
#93. She spoke softly and gently, like our ears needed respect, and she carried the worries of the world on her shoulders so that we did not have to. She never once complained.
Gemma Liviero
#94. As she spoke, as she looked out over the garden, Pilar ran a hand absently over Maddy's hair, left
it lying on her shoulder. The gesture made everything inside the girl go warm. And made her sigh.
What's wrong?
Nora Roberts
#95. Won't you have an egg or something? Or a sausage or something? Or something?'
'No, thank you.'
She spoke as if she belonged to an anti-sausage society or a league for the suppression of eggs..
There was another slightly frappe silence.
P.G. Wodehouse
#96. Suzy smiled and the whole class laughed at me, but when she spoke, I heard a new sound, not the song of an angel, but the words of a woman on a pedestal, coming down.
Taylor Mali
#97. She spoke and he could not understand. The sounds were distinct in his ear but they had no shape or meaning. It was as though his head were the prow of a boat and the sounds were water that broke on him and then flowed past. He felt he had to look behind to find the words already said.
Carson McCullers
#98. The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that's why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.
John Green
#99. She lied, sir. She has always lied. I don't think she ever spoke a word of truth. But when she spoke, I believed her.
Prosper Merimee
#100. Claire's hands moved when she talked, rising long and white in the air, as though she would catch the future between them and give it shape, would hand Jamie her thoughts as she spoke them, smooth and polished objects, bits of sculptured air.
Diana Gabaldon
