Top 100 She Told Me Quotes
#1. What are you doing?" I asked Loretta.
"Stabbing a cushion," she told me.
Joel N. Ross
#2. My whole life, I've felt I was homesick for somewhere I'd never known.' She told me that in Britain, where she grew up, the Celts called it 'hiraeth' - a longing for home.
Kate Lord Brown
#3. Oh, what did she finally decide on?" asked the pilot. "At one point she told me she was thinking of sending the bride a barbed-wire choke chain for Miles, but was afraid it might be misinterpreted." "No
Lois McMaster Bujold
#4. Before my mother died, she told me not to leave Chelsea.
Frank Lampard
#5. I really want to thank Annika Sorenstam. She helped me a lot about my game, about the mentals, and she told me go step by step.
Yani Tseng
#6. My girlfriend's family think I'm shy. Or slightly autistic (she told me one night). I'm not. I just don't like some people. These are some of those people.
Sean Mackaay
#7. I sang her a soft song, and she gave me a hug, and when she told me she loved me, my heart ached.
Staci Hart
#8. Mum, your heart is the same size as your fist,' she told me once in delight, and we both made our hands into fists and held them against our chests and bumped them together: hands as hearts.
Sanjida Kay
#9. I can't help feeling a little bit competitive and a little bit disappointed in myself that I'm already so far behind. After all, Yulikova thinks Barron has a real future with the Bureau. She told me so. I told her that sociopaths are relentlessly charming.
I think she figured I was joking.
Holly Black
#10. And she always, always made it a point to tell me that her name, when spelled backward, was still Hannah. "A palindrome," I said the first time she told me. She looked at me, perplexed, and that's when I knew I could never love her. What a waste of a palindrome she was, that Hannah.
Colleen Hoover
#11. I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well, that explains a lot about the DC Universe.
Neil Gaiman
#12. One night she told me to put out the garbage. I told her "you cooked it, you take it out".
Rodney Dangerfield
#13. If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery.
Lemony Snicket
#14. Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#15. She told me to tell you love is not a feeling. It's a sacrifice.
Jennifer Clement
#16. The truth is that she told me she couldn't love me. When she said goodbye, she was saying goodbye forever.
And yet.
I made myself forget. I don't know why. I keep asking myself. But I did.
Nicole Krauss
#17. Regarding his friend's insight after losing her spouse to cancer: "She told me she had plenty of people to do things with but nobody to do nothing with.
Peter Bach
#18. She told me not to even try. Said you were ... as frigid as a nun and as cold as ice. That one actually stung.
Jennifer Ashley
#19. When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could take an aspect of myself, and from that one bit of personality, I can create a character. This is what I have done, particularly in my novels.
Jonathan Ames
#20. And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.
Chris Christie
#21. brought bone after bone to a skeleton expert until she told me that I was making her so miserable that I should never return,
Lemony Snicket
#22. A piece of me is gone," she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.
Melina Marchetta
#23. Never let a man stay the night," she told me. "Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.
Janet Fitch
#24. The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
Zoe Tapper
#25. My mother spoke to me this morning, she told me that my father is beginning to think of suitors for me to marry.
Emily Whitaker
#26. When I asked Vera why Michael was so obstinate, she told me that some asshole had recently broken Eliza's heart. A drummer, no less. Hell, even I know girls should stay away from the goddamn drummers.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#27. She told me that women who wore makeup had bad values. Putting on makeup would have been a statement - a rebellion. I didn't try it. I grew to feel guilty for wanting to feel attractive.
Aspen Matis
#28. I told her it takes
a lot of solitude to write a poem.
She told me it takes a lot of solitude
to die.
Ronald Baatz
#29. Ariana is a huge supporter of mine; she's a big fan - she told me that when I met her. She's cool, her voice is crazy, she's got a great, great voice.
Big Sean
#30. I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?
Elizabeth Gilbert
#31. You cannot step over a mountain," she told me, "but if you step over pebble by pebble, you'll look back and the mountain will be behind you.
Ann Rule
#32. Katie Arnold-Ratliff. Katie writes like a dream. But she told me that she'd
Elizabeth Gilbert
#33. My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.
Rodney Dangerfield
#34. She told me once there is a part of her in everyone, though Neil believes I'm more Delirium than Tori, and Death taught me to accept that, you know, wear your butterflies with pride.
Tori Amos
#36. I almost hate to say this, but I am the happiest I have ever been in my life," she told me. "Sometimes it takes going through something so awful to realize the beauty that is out there in this world." Brain
Sheryl Sandberg
#37. But it is," returned she; "for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.
Jane Austen
#38. She told me she loved him." "Well, girls always love assholes," said Platt, not bothering to dispute this. "Haven't you noticed?
Donna Tartt
#39. My mother told me stories all the time ... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I was supposed to be, whom I came from, and who would follow me ... That's what she said and what she showed me in the things she did and the way she lives.
Paula Gunn Allen
#40. She told me once that every time she saw my name on her caller I.D. she got butterflies. I got this swelling ache in my chest. It was a good ache - like a heart orgasm.
Tarryn Fisher
#41. Every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top. My mama, she told me don't worry about your size. She says boys like a little more booty to hold at night. Yeah I won't be no stick figure silicone Barbie doll, so if that's what you're into then go ahead and move along.
Meghan Trainor
#42. She told me there was a place on my face she wanted to inhale.
Mikl Paul
#43. Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.
Chuck Palahniuk
#44. She told me it was unlucky to share a reading with others, but the main point, the one I don't mind mentioning because it seems relevant to the story, is that she said I had a kind of evil spirit following me. 'Obviously,' she added, 'that sucks. But if we get you some amber -
Olivia Sudjic
#45. When I was 22, I met with some janky manager, and she told me, 'You're never going to work at this weight.' I think I was a size 6 at the time. There is just this weird thing about how we perceive women in this country. I would love to be a part of breaking that down.
Melissa McCarthy
#46. I remember Tyra Banks giving me encouraging advice during my first Victoria's Secret commercial shoot. I was so nervous, and she told me to just relax and be confident - that made me feel very comfortable.
Adriana Lima
#47. I have no doubt that my mother's pregnancy with me was an accident. Mostly because on several occasions, she told me I was an accident.
Chelsea Handler
#48. Everyone doesn't have to do everything," she told me. "People forget you can also express yourself by what you choose to admire and support. I've had so much pleasure from beautiful and challenging things created by other people, things I could never make or do. I wouldn't trade that for anything.
Will Schwalbe
#49. Izzy. My sister. She told me you liked me. Liked me, liked me."
"Liked you, liked you?" Magnus buried his grin in the cat's fur. "Sorry. Are we twelve now? I don't recall saying anything to Isabelle ...
Cassandra Clare
#50. Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'
Terry Pratchett
#51. She told me that love is when a person introduces you to yourself for the first time. After
Simon Van Booy
#52. She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride.
Gayle Forman
#53. I remember how my grandmother tried to explain our world to me she told me a story she said the ground and the sky love each other but they don't have arms so rain is how they hold one another.
Shane Koyczan
#54. I nod but what I want to do is tell him about what Marie said, that she told me this isn't about who I love but rather who I am. I want to tell him that I've been asking myself that question over and over and it's starting to seem glaringly obvious that I am different from the person Jesse loves.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#55. When I was little, I went to the Sahara desert and met an older woman with beautiful earrings that came all the way down to her stomach. She told me, 'For us Tuareg, jewelry is not meant for decoration. It absorbs negative energy that comes your way.' So think twice when you buy a vintage ring!
Sofia Boutella
#56. My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale.
Candace Camp
#57. I drove her to the airport. She kissed me goodbye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she skipped through security. She never came back.
Gayle Forman
#58. Oh, and she told me that men want only one thing.
And on that note, I must give praise and thanks to the powers that be. I don't want much else from them either.
Darynda Jones
#59. I had thought of being a hermit, but she told me I was over-qualified and suggested instead a profession where I might enjoy the sound of my own voice.
Gillian St. Kevern
#60. You may have lost someone, but you've found something immeasurably more valuable: God,' she told me. 'And God's love lasts forever.
Kristiane Backer
#61. I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.
Joan Rivers
#62. She told me about the cop. And the movie star, and the construction worker. You're not having a life Michael, you're fucking the Village People one at a time
Armistead Maupin
#63. [Amy] pulled a face. 'Honestly, when you grow up you'll learn you may as well try herding cats as keeping men in one place,' she told me solemnly, which I vowed to remember.
James Goss
#64. There is no such thing as magic," she told me. "You can b e l i e v e all you want, but it's never going to do you any good. Nobody flies. We only fall
Melissa DeCarlo
#65. I knew this id who very bravely and bossily came out of the closet when she was only fourteen years old. She told me then that we can't choose who we love. We just love the people we love, no matter what anyone else might want for you.
Madeleine George
#66. Then his voice resonates over the speakers again. 'A good friend helped me find these lyrics again, and I told her if she ever fell, I'd be there to catch her. She told me if I ever sang this song like I just did, it'd be a success. Well, I'm keeping up my end of the deal.
P.K. Hrezo
#67. When my wife drives, there's always trouble. The other day she took the car. She came home. She told me, There's water in the carburetor. I asked her, Where's the car? She said, In a lake.
Rodney Dangerfield
#68. He was some sort of boxing champion," she told me the night she took me out to celebrate my graduation. "He was always punching someone in the nose."
"Macho," I said.
"No," she said. "It was the clarity of expression that appealed to him.
Melissa Bank
#70. I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the Self Help section was. She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose.
Dennis Miller
#71. The difference between old friends and new friends is that new friends just haven't let you down yet.
She told me that everyone has let her down ...
... except for me.
And all I could think was, give me time.
Rick Remender
#72. I love my mom. And this time, I told her I loved her. And she told me she loved me, too. And things were okay for a little while.
Stephen Chbosky
#73. I've been in that void,' she told me once. 'Don't you ever give in to it
Melina Marchetta
#74. I'm Sam Donovan."
"I know who you are. Mrs. Kulavich told me. I'm Jaine Bright."
"I know. She told me. She even told me how you spell your name."
Now, how on earth had Mrs. Kulavich known that?
Linda Howard
#75. She taught me so much, she said to herself. She built me as we were walking around after the sheep, and she told me all those things that I needed to know, and the first thing was to look after people. Of course, the other thing had been to look after the sheep.
Terry Pratchett
#76. The biggest thing in my life right now is my girlfriend. I love this girl. I know I love her because she told me.
Adam Ferrara
#77. Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I wanted.
Jacques Delors
#79. I was in America, someone wanted a photo with me, I put my arm around her and she told me not to touch her.
Rupert Grint
#80. I called my mom, and I was so excited. I was telling her, 'I'm going to be on the Grand Ole Opry! This is crazy!' And she told me, 'Watch out for Jimmy Dickens, because he likes the pretty girls.
Carrie Underwood
#81. She told me the first picture I should take should be of something beautiful and I should allow it to change me." "What did you take a picture of?" His eyes shifted to the window. He stared out into the clouds and his voice softened, "You.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#82. I'm supposed to talk some sense into you," she told me. "But what I really want to say is congratulations. You did the right thing." "The police don't think so." "Typical," she clucked. "Getting hung up on the numbers on your birth certificate when you probably saved a life." "They made
Gordon Korman
#83. I had three long conversations with Marusya over a cup of coffee. She told me her whole rather silly story. To some degree we became friends. I like people like that
doomed, dying, helpless, and brazen. I always say, if you're in trouble, you're not sinning.
Sergei Dovlatov
#84. She told me that she liked white people but didn't have any close white friends and asked if I was interested in cross-pollinating. I told her we would see how things went but not to put the chicken wing before the egg. We grew to be fast friends, and a couple
Chelsea Handler
#85. When my daughter, Clare, was 4, she told me that a school friend had told her what I did for a living. Clare asked me, 'Is it true you play Jack Rabbit?'
Peter Bergman
#86. It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me.
Susan Boyle
#87. In it she told me, "Thanks a lot! I'm ruined - gloriously ruined." I nodded with sudden understanding. "that's it - that describes what has happened to me." I was ruined for life as I had known it before, but gloriously ruined!
Kay Warren
#88. She told me to draw the curtains shut, so I grabbed my pencil and began to sketch.
Jarod Kintz
#89. I told her my father was a retired janitor who liked to go fishing. She told me her father was a podiatrist who liked to punch his wife and two daughters in the face.
Gary Shteyngart
#90. My mother told me one day I walked in to her and said, 'Mom, I'm not going to be sick anymore,' and she said 'Why?' and I said 'Because an angel told me so.' Now, I don't remember saying it; that's just what she told me.
Prince
#91. That's me! Elf had said. I reminded her that she had her sight, she could see, she'd always been able to see but she told me she'd never adjusted to the light, she'd just never developed a tolerance for the world, her inoculation hadn't taken. Reality was a rusty leg trap.
Miriam Toews
#92. She said Robert Joyner had killed himself with a gun. And then I asked why, and then she told me that he was getting a divorce and was sad about it.'
'Lots of people get divorces and don't kill themselves,' I said.
'I know,' she said, excitement in her voice. 'That's what I told her.
John Green
#93. My teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I said happy. She told me I don't understand the assignment, I told her she doesn't understand life.
John Lennon
#94. My hair and I had a really bad argument. She was being sprayed with alcohol and burnt with irons. She was being over processed and yanked and pulled by weave strings and suffocated by glue. She told me if I didn't straighten up and fly right that she was leaving.
Chrisette Michele
#95. In my early life my mother tried to create a nurturing environment in which my mind could play. Her big rule was "Never lose in your imagination." She told me that thoughts were things and that I would become the thing I thought of most. This kind of empowerment is crucial to creative thinking.
Joey Reiman
#96. But she told me she was never going to drink again.
David Gest
#97. My mother told me that truth is like my skin, a beautiful, protective covering, and the things that people say or do can be easily changed or discarded. She told me truth comes from the heart.
Stewart Lewis
#98. No. She told me she was going to marry him, to get French nationality . . . She was obsessed with getting a nationality...
Patrick Modiano
#99. I'll let you and Zia have some quality time," she told me. "Just the two of you and your coat.
Rick Riordan
#100. You were designed to be very smart, Max,' she told me. 'We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was developing.' (The director)
And yet I still can't program my DVD player,' I said. (Max)
James Patterson
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