Top 100 She Thought Quotes
#1. When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better
her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties
Virginia Woolf
#2. When the horse was little, Massie had covered the walls with posters of young fillies that she thought Brownie would find sexy.
Lisi Harrison
#3. Relationship. Jo wanted me to know, though. She thought
Samantha Young
#4. But when she finally did look up, I realized my fatal mistake. That by not leaping for her when she jumped, she thought that I no longer wanted to catch her.
Shelly Crane
#5. Grief, she thought. It's a strange and a misunderstood emotion.
Anne Rice
#6. She thought that one might not make a dent in the Great Sadness, but one could help make another person whole.
Peter Heller
#7. She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.
Tad Williams
#8. Obviously, she thought, angling her head up to the second story, where filthy windows clouded with dust and decay seemed to transform into yawning faces with soulless eyes.
Jessica Lemmon
#9. The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
Natasha Trethewey
#10. Nevertheless, seeing him made Cinder both warm with longing and miserable when she thought of the last few moments she'd seen him. Her,
Marissa Meyer
#11. She was responsible for the things she chose. That's all. She almost managed a tiny smile. It was simultaneously an incredible responsibility and almost nothing at all, she thought wonderingly.
Hiromi Goto
#12. Without his phone, he seemed to breathe easier, and Bella realized, she thought that held true for most people.
Melissa Foster
#13. Well, she thought, I'm certainly bright. She had wanted to meet a new boy and when she finally did meet one she didn't even find out his name
Beverly Cleary
#14. No, she thought, not new; the old, the always, the now and ever was.
William Gibson
#15. She stayed behind because she thought it would be worthwhile trying the door of the wardrobe, even though she felt almost sure that it would be locked. To her surprise it opened quite easily ...
C.S. Lewis
#16. He was wearing that enigmatic little smile of his, as if he knew something that she didn't. Actually, she thought, it was more like he knew something that she never would.
Julia Quinn
#17. She thought of the grainy video of him she had seen, head tipped back, so covered in blood that she hadn't remembered his features, hadn't remembered him as looking like anything but a monster, laughing, endlessly laughing.
Mad as a dog. Mad as a god.
Holly Black
#18. He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.
Orson Scott Card
#19. Wearily, she sat up. Jesus was not coming today. She would have to die later, she decided. There was no use lying out here like a fool in the rain. One step, she thought. One step and then the next gets you where you're going.
Robert McCammon
#20. she thought maybe she'd be a rock star, but she just ended up another name on the very long list of people Lou Reed was rude to. Yeah,
Cari Luna
#21. No hurry, she thought, a warmth growing inside. All the best wines took time.
Ally Shields
#22. If joy is the aim and the core of existence, she thought, and if that which has the power to give one joy is always guarded as one's deepest secret, then they had seen each other naked in that moment.
Ayn Rand
#23. That was my favorite dagger.
She had a favorite dagger? Seriously? And she thought that I was a freak.
Jennifer Estep
#24. It was always too late, she thought. At the point when you actually realized something important, the moment to do anything about it had already slipped by.
Emily Grayson
#25. For some reason, now, she saw the panel in the Roberts, all those faces. Read Us the Book of the Names of the Dead. All the Marlys, she thought all the girls she'd been through the long season of youth.
William Gibson
#26. Bastard, she spat at him, and she thought he had moved closer. She swung at him, and then suddenly he was where he had been standing all along, the coward.
Robin Hobb
#27. No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.
Virginia Woolf
#28. Maybe she thought of me as a homing pigeon in human form, knowing that I would return, even if I didn't know why.
Bain Taylor
#30. Though it hadn't been in his mind, and even though he would not entertain such an offer, he was nevertheless disappointed to find she thought the idea repulsive.
Terry Goodkind
#31. Tavin cupped his hands to his mouth. "Here, dragon-dragon-dragon!" he yelled.
Lily stared in amazement. Well, that was bold, she thought, and stupid.
Richard Due
#32. But I also hoped that [she] had chosen California because she thought that was her true home, the place where she really belonged, where it was always warm and you could dance in the rain, pick grapes right off the vines, and sleep outside at night under the stars.
Jeannette Walls
#33. My mother tried to kill me when I was a baby. She denied it. She said she thought the plastic bag would keep me fresh.
Bob Monkhouse
#34. Then
dies, and everything that she thought or felt vanishes and is gone forever.
David Nicholls
#35. Aw. She thought I was fruity. I got that a lot.
Darynda Jones
#36. To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness.
Kate Morton
#37. She kept an eye on the horizon, or where she thought it was, and understood that not everything that existed could be seen. Not every border was clear.
Lisa Scottoline
#38. Throughout human history beauty has been seen as a gift from God, but Mom had another notion; she thought that beauty could be earned through self-knowledge. It may be a revolutionary idea, but it has offered me great comfort.
Ruth Reichl
#39. She got the feeling that as long as she was with Alex, she was going to have to get used to orgasming a lot more often than she had in the past.
It was something she thought she could handle.
Paige Tyler
#40. Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.
Flannery O'Connor
#41. My mother never criticized any idea I had. She thought anybody could have anything. Even if I was in a poor family that worked at Ford Motor Company and lived in Dagenham. I could have told my mother that I wanted to work in pantomime. And she'd have said, "Great. I can help you."
Scott Raab
#42. It would be wonderful, she thought, to write a book which would help other people.
Alexander McCall Smith
#44. He would have to get used to it, she thought. He would have to get used to her being more and more preoccupied with books.
Ruth Rendell
#45. He was so pale the freckles stood out on his face the way they did when he was upset or hadn't slept. She thought they might be telling her something if she could only understand the language of freckles.
Alice Hoffman
#46. Maybe hope and sadness can coexist, she thought. That felt like a significant idea. Maybe Cam could hope without denying that huge part of herself that needed to be sad. She didn't have to sacrifice one for the other. Maybe all people were both hopeful and sad in every moment of their lives.
Wendy Wunder
#47. He was doing the right thing. No matter how painful, no matter how upset she thought she was now ... in the long run, ending it here, before she learned the truth about him, was the only thing he could do.
Elisabeth Naughton
#48. And suddenly, as if her head had cleared, she was quite sure that wonderful things did indeed exist. Even if they're only in my own mind, she thought, they're there and worth fighting for. I mustn't give in.
Diana Wynne Jones
#49. She thought that relaxation was attractive only in those for whom it was an unnatural state; then even limpness acquired purpose.
Ayn Rand
#50. She was a failure. That's what she thought. She had come to the forest to see the world, but all she found was wretchedness.
Robert Beatty
#51. There was nothing more unattractive than narcissism, she thought: nothing could transform beauty into a cloying, unattractive quality than that self-conscious appreciation of self.
Alexander McCall Smith
#52. That man had deliberately set out to charm her. It didn't matter that he'd succeeded, she thought perversely. It only mattered that he had done it deliberately, probably because he wanted something from her.
Julia Quinn
#53. Holy shit, she thought. The dragons are throwing cars at me!
Matthew Reilly
#54. Later, when she came to know of the letters he wrote to Congress about Darfur, the teenagers he tutored at the high school on Dixwell, the shelter he volunteered at, she thought of him as a person who did not have a normal spine but had, instead, a firm reed of goodness.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#55. if she looked deeply where the dark sucks in the sparks, she might see something useful. She thought she might see glee. Thank
Thomas Harris
#56. Maybe, she thought, they had never known her, any of them, because if they had, then they would have had to realize what this would be like for her. She
Colm Toibin
#57. The boys went off to fight with swords while girls had to learn dog barks and owl hoots. No wonder princesses were so impotent in fairy tales, she thought. If all they could do was smile, stand straight, and speak to squirrels, then what choice did they have but to wait for a boy to rescue them?
Soman Chainani
#58. I have cried over myself a hundred times this summer, she thought, I have wept over my big feet and my skinny legs and my nose, I have even cried over my stupid shoes, and now when I have true sadness there are no tears left.
Betsy Byars
#59. There was so much suffering in Africa that it was tempting just to shrug your shoulders and walk away. But you can't do that, she thought. You just can't.
Alexander McCall Smith
#60. It's a sad day when Myrnin is the safe choice, she thought. Apparently, he thought so, too, because he gave her a long, troubled look before pressing his thumb to a glass plate inside the room and opening the door.
Rachel Caine
#61. Blood tricked down Molly's neck from the stinging cut Justine had given her. She thought, dear lords and ladies, all I want in the whole wide world is a bath, a pina colada, and the chance to stake this bitch in the heart.
Thea Harrison
#62. Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.
Cassandra Clare
#63. Of all the things she thought might happen when she came here, this wasn't one. To be shot like this. Tears came into her eyes. She closed them, laid her head down on the grass and in a few moments her tears were the only part of her moving
Charlie Higson
#64. Happiness was a little like flying, she thought, like being a kite. It depended on how much one let the string out.
Patricia Highsmith
#65. I am such a bad girl," she thought. Yet...
Anne Rice
#66. After class, it was Ash who had initiated things. He had a radiant smile that spoke to her heart in a way no one ever had, and she thought, This must be what love feels like.
Vrinda Pendred
#67. Well, she thought, that big old dawg with the hatred in his eyes had killed her after all.
Zora Neale Hurston
#68. Words are so heavy, she thought, but as the night wore on, she was able to complete eleven pages
Markus Zusak
#69. But she thought the men's brains had turned to jelly. They couldn't see straight. Faced with a pretty woman they all seemed to lose their reason.
Ann Cleeves
#70. Pity us, yes, but we are brave, she thought, and wild, more life in us than we can bear, the fire infolding itself within us.
Marilynne Robinson
#71. A pretty handsome jerk, I might add, but a huge, colossal megajerk nonetheless. Kenzie gave me a quick glance to see how I was taking this. I shrugged.
Not going to argue with that.
And then a second later:
She thought I was handsome?
Julie Kagawa
#72. The present participle is the Devil himself, she thought, now that we are in the place for believing in Devils.
Virginia Woolf
#73. You are so right, my love, she thought in wild despair. No man, no king, no ghost is strong enough to come between us; only the indominable splendor of your honor, your pride, and your passion can accomplish that.
Marsha Canham
#74. A single instant of kindness, she thought again, her heart breaking. How do we save them all, Aden? One at a time.
Nalini Singh
#75. There was a certain bitter humor to lying awake wishing for something one cannot have, after lying awake not so long ago wishing for the opposite thing that one had just lost. Not a very useful sort of adaptability, this, she thought.
Robin McKinley
#76. She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold; each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her.
Kristin Cashore
#77. There was no disguise for real love, she thought, and suddenly understood all that she did not have.
Elizabeth Brundage
#78. There are choices," she thought, when she had sat long enough. "There are always choices.
Neil Gaiman
#79. People wanted to be redeemed, she thought. Everyone did. We're only human.
Elizabeth Brundage
#80. Wood burns. Roots nourish. Branches shelter. Leaves heal." The words had become her mantra, her way of reigniting her courage when it started to falter. My life depends on a tree, she thought wryly as she cinched her pack.
Teresa Tsalaky
#81. Remember this, she thought. The way the light caught in his unruly hair, the love in his brown eyes, the chapped lips that had kissed her only an hour ago, in the darkness.
Kristin Hannah
#82. The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
Alan Bennett
#83. Is there a lot of stuff you don't understand? she said & I said pretty much the whole thing & she nodded & said that's what she thought, but it was nice to hear it anyways & we sat there on the porch swing, listening to the wind & growing up together.
Brian Andreas
#84. She thought to resume crawling, then consciousness slipped away again.
Steven Erikson
#85. I have to do it, she thought, sitting in the red sunlight. There is a puzzle here - something to be solved. What was it Kelsier liked to say?
There's always another secret.
Brandon Sanderson
#86. The box was nearly finished now, she thought, although it moved so quickly, in the padded claws, that it was difficult to see ... Abruptly, it floated free, tumbling end over end, and she sprang for it instinctively, caught it, and went tumbling past the flashing arms, her treasure in her arms.
William Gibson
#87. With her head on his shoulder, Jean Louise was content. It might work after all, she thought. But I am not domestic. I don't even know how to run a cook. What do ladies say to each other when they go visiting? I'd have to wear a hat. I'd drop the babies and kill 'em.
Harper Lee
#89. There are three different takes on career women in this house, she thought to herself: that of my husband, who respects working women but wishes I wasn't one of them; that of my mother, who hates the very idea; and then there's me, a working woman who has no idea what she really wants! There
Ayse Kulin
#90. Sometimes life was hard, she thought, walking across the grass to be with her friends. Just when you least expected it, you had to start over. There was pain in that, but also satisfaction. With or without her wanting it to, life moved on. And she would, too.
Susan Mallery
#91. Do I know everything about him already? she thought, bewildered. And back came the answer: Everything. You are branded with this knowledge, you will have it for the rest of time.
Eva Ibbotson
#92. There was something about being cared for," she thought. Something magical.
Ted Naifeh
#93. They were in Julius Caesar now and the stage direction "Alarum" confused Katie. She thought it had something to do with fire engines and whenever she came to that word, she shouted out "clang-clang." The children thought it was wonderful.
Betty Smith
#94. Septimus has been working too hard - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.
Virginia Woolf
#95. I love him, she thought. I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him. I've tried, I've strained to love him but I can't. I am building a life with a man I don't love, and I don't know what to do about it.
David Nicholls
#96. She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.
Jodi Picoult
#97. My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.
Meghan O'Rourke
#98. Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?
Eudora Welty
#99. The colour which had been driven from her face, returned for half a minute with an additional glow, and a smile of delight added lustre to her eyes, as she thought for that space of time that his affection and wishes must still be unshaken. But she would not be secure.
Jane Austen
#100. Poor Cindy's heart was torn to shreds.
My Prince! She thought. He chops off heads!
How could I marry anyone
Who does that sort of thing for fun?
The Prince cried, Who's this dirty slut?
Off with her nut! Off with her nut!
Roald Dahl
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