She Was Different Quotes

#1. Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don't think I really knew my own mother until I had children, and if she was different before, I don't remember.

Nancy E. Turner

#2. I had called that right. Mason said she was different. He was right, but I wasn't going to figure her out. That was all him. My job was to play with her.

Tijan

#3. She was different and the same, and I had known her insofar as you can really know anyone, which is to say not much.

Bennett Madison

#4. He got why Eleanor tried so hard to look different. Sort of. It was because she was different - because she wasn't afraid to be.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. She was different. She liked hearing it, because she wanted to recall just enough of it to remember that she never wanted to go back to being the person she'd been before.

Harriet Evans

#6. Her body beckoned me. She was different, elusive, unobtainable. And my cock wanted unobtainable.

Pepper Winters

#7. Myra wasn't simple or complicated. She was different. She was not perfect, not even close but her flaws were intresting. She always had an opinion, something to say about everything.Most interesting thing about her is that she never said something to please, yet she was nice to be around.

Parul Wadhwa

#8. At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to compare her to, no one to measure her against.

Jerry Spinelli

#9. Not only did
I love her,
but I could tell
the universe loved
her, too.
More than others.
She was different.
After all; I would
be a fool not to
notice the way the
sunshine played with
her hair.

Christopher Poindexter

#10. Tulip hated this feeling. The last time she had felt this way, she had been utterly humiliated and deeply hurt. She couldn't imagine allowing herself to be charmed by another handsome man only to be heartbroken again. But she was different now, wasn't she? Stronger, bolder, and indeed more worldly.

Serena Valentino

#11. Ten years from now, her mother might not even recognize her. Already she was different, but the day would come when she'd be this person her mother had never seen. There would be other people - someone like Carolyn or Alan, or even Violet - who had known her longer than her mother ever did.

Joyce Maynard

#12. She was different from any other women he'd been with. Something he'd known from the moment he'd met her and she'd made a smart-ass comment about him looking like GI Joe on vacation.

Katie Reus

#13. Did he know that she was so dissatisfied with herself that she was always pretending to be different? Probably he did, and despised her for it. More than anyone she knew, Joe Willard was always, fearlessly, himself.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#14. I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.

Stephen Colbert

#15. She wanted to be with him, and though the realization frightened her, it also set her heart racing with anticipation. When she was with Nick, she was a different woman. Some of his glitter fell onto her and made her feel beautiful and sparkly and more alive.

Kristin Hannah

#16. ... it was strange how afraid he was of her answer, even though he knew she desired him. Desire and love were two different things.
Sweat was damp on his skin, fear tight in his chest.
Love me.

Emily Gee

#17. She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.

Laini Taylor

#18. Up until today she'd felt as if she was surviving. Now she felt as though she was living.
Everything was different.

Sarah Morgan

#19. Silent as a flower, her face fell in dismay, aware that the ghost of lust ate and left, sensing that there was a different scent of perfume consuming the room, and that she had numbered and counted the he loves me, he loves me not of each petal, where the lifeless dust had settle.

Anthony Liccione

#20. If he didn't like the way she did things, he was free to do them different - but he never did them different. He just fussed at her.

Larry McMurtry

#21. She felt a calmness in him now, a centered lack of fear, that touched her heart with love, and with some queer darkness, as well. He was so different, her son, so special ... but the world did not love people like that. The world tried to root them out, like tares from a garden.

Stephen King

#22. Maybe, she is right. Maybe I have taken gratitude as an attraction. If that was it then why couldn't I remove her face from my eyes? I am different and she too! I cannot defy my own rules. "Sharya's" are much more dangerous than "Shera's".

Kimaya Mathew

#23. She was almost in love with him. No, that's impossible, she thought: either you are or you aren't. Love's the only thing in this world that is unequivocal. There are different kinds of love, certainly, but it's a you-do or you-don't proposition with them all.

Harper Lee

#24. She was wonderful; no mother could have been more wonderful. But ever after, she demanded that I should not forget it, nor cease to be grateful, nor hold an opinion different from her own, nor even, as I grew older, feel the need for any companionship but hers.

Rosemary Sutcliff

#25. Disbelief. Pain. Resolve. Christ, she was exquisite. He was going to screw her ten different ways until she couldn't stand up, and then send her home to wipe the floor with that man.

Kitty French

#26. Diane suddenly felt like the words she was saying were twisting in her mouth and coming out as different words altogether.

Joseph Fink

#27. She'd call us her bee-utiful girls and take us for hot chocolate on Mondays, because Fridays didn't deserve all the attention. It was funny. I used to think of myself as a Monday and Ellen as a Friday. But Mondays and Fridays were just twenty-four-hour stretches of time with different names.

Julie Murphy

#28. I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let her have more and more booze until she passed out.

David Gest

#29. Bill looks different without a suit. He was wearing his old graduate school T-shirt. Which was Brown. The school. Not the color. His girlfriend was wearing sandals and a nice flowered dress. She even had hair under her arms. No kidding!

Stephen Chbosky

#30. How was your first day of school, Jane?" he asked, voice different than before.
"Oh, you know, public school," she said, not meeting his eyes. "We just watched cartoons all day.

Maggie Stiefvater

#31. I'm getting the feeling that you two don't like me. - Kristy

Matthew Leeth

#32. Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, but when I saw things working against me I simply became disgusted and withdrew. Lydia was different. She reacted. She was the Head Cheerleader at the Game of Violence.

Charles Bukowski

#33. It was perhaps fortunate that I chanced to see Rebecca in her so-different modes -- so damaged and incorrigible in the one, so full of promise and potential in the other -- and that she was on of the first patients I saw in our clinic. For what I saw in her, what she showed me, I now saw in all.

Oliver Sacks

#34. If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn's place right now. She didn't want that sort of existence, but there was something so attractive about the security of feeling like you had stopped moving toward your life, and actually arrived.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#35. It was amazing that she and Ronan didn't get along better, because they were different brands of the same impossible stuff.

Maggie Stiefvater

#36. I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like I suddenly started feeling different. I always knew that I was. I never felt I missed out.

Hayden Panettiere

#37. I fucking loved that girl, Sky. I need to believe that what she did was the only answer she had left, because if I don't, then I'll never forgive myself for not helping her find a different one.

Colleen Hoover

#38. Adjusting herself, she doesn't feel any different. Not really. And now what? Is she supposed to go back to Ben? Are they going to do it again? Was she good? Was he good? Who defines 'good' anyway? Is he going to tell everyone? What will he tell them?

Ann Benjamin

#39. When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls - I'd be the crazy diva Barbie and she'd be the homeless Barbie.

Jordana Brewster

#40. I've been thinking that you, me and Kristy should all have a sleepover or something like that. Wouldn't that be so cool! - Carol

Matthew Leeth

#41. Librarians were somewhat on a par with God-who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many different types of questions? Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

Jodi Picoult

#42. Males and females are unique and different, because their brains are different. There's not a limitation on girls. My grandmother was very strong, and so was my mother. She also knew what it meant to be a woman and wife and was very successful at it.

James Dobson

#43. My mother knew if you bought a couple of really good architectural outfits and put your money into accessories, you could create a million different looks. She taught that to me, which I think was invaluable.

Iris Apfel

#44. He offered his arm and she took it. And the world was the same place.
And forever different.

Mary Balogh

#45. She'd read somewhere that the definition of crazy was doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results.

Laurelin Paige

#46. The Little House was very happy as she sat on the hill and watched the countryside around her. She watched the sun rise in the morning and she watched the sun set in the evening. Day followed day, each one a little different from the one before ... but the Little House stayed just the same.

Virginia Lee Burton

#47. She might be the best-dressed little girl in her elementary school class, but she was still a Greek. Her parents spoke a foreign language, their food was different, and she looked different from the children she went to school with in Corktown.

Suzanne Jenkins

#48. I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.

Patricia McBride

#49. She had told herself more than once not to call it loneliness, since it wasn't any different from one year to the next, it was just how her body felt, like hungry or tired, except it was always there, always the same.

Marilynne Robinson

#50. She looked different. Oh yes, that was it - I didn't love her anymore.
People do look different when you fall out of love with them.

Jessica Thompson

#51. My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in America, and she's from Brazil, so we have different ways of doing things. There's a bit of culture clash there.

Maiara Walsh

#52. This man offered her forever.
And if Prescott had asked a month ago ... If he'd asked the day before she'd encountered Jonathan Redmond at midnight outside the Duke of Greyfolk's house ...
Ah, but she was a different woman now. One kiss had changed that.
And a ballroom orgasm.

Julie Anne Long

#53. the image of the Good Life long ago stamped on her soul was quite different from this, and she suffered in contrast.

Marian Engel

#54. Francie of course became an outsider shunned by all because of her stench. But she had grown accostumed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and being considered different. She did not suffer to much.

Betty Smith

#55. It seemed like no time at all had passed, like it was summer again and she and Cord were playing their games - and yet everything was different. It was like an echo of that time, a little less sharp, a little less thrilling. They had both changed too much.

Katharine McGee

#56. Her only worry sometimes was that she didn't look different enough, that people mistook her for part of a crowd. She'd see a girl in patterned Doc Martens or with a dyed red pixie cut and wish she had the balls.

Mark Haddon

#57. I'm the sexiest of them all! - Carol

Matthew Leeth

#58. The same as she'd always done when she'd seen me suffer because I wanted something to be different than it was and she was trying to convince me with that single word that I must accept things as they were.

Cheryl Strayed

#59. If people changed, it meant that she was allowed to change too. She could be different.
She could be happier.

Lauren Oliver

#60. She shrugged, knowing all too well how easy it was to long for a different life, how hard it was to find one's way there.

Nicole Mones

#61. The herbalist I met a few times - it was great - she gave me literature about the different processes that an herbalist would do to make medicines from certain herbs and things.

Caitriona Balfe

#62. Sylvia had begun her month in New York with princessy pomp and fanfare ... .Her departure on June 27 was entirely different. She left New York shaken, depleted, and utterly alone.

Elizabeth Winder

#63. Did she ever think of that, that things experienced in ways different from hers were equally valuable? That the way that he chose to love her was, in fact, loving her, that the face of love depended on the person giving it?

Elizabeth Berg

#64. You're forgetting ... we never get in trouble in that class. Remember I gave Mr. Hendry that lap dance last year. I'm thinking he's expecting one this year as well. - Carol

Matthew Leeth

#65. Angel was different in every way possible. When he looked at her with those cool gray eyes, she had no idea what he was thinking. That was kind of fun, She just hoped it didn't mean he was a serial killer.

Susan Mallery

#66. She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

Betty Smith

#67. Was it possible? She had taken me with her hoping that as a punishment my parents would not send me to middle school? Or had she brought me back in such a hurry so that I would avoid punishment? Or - I wonder today - did she want at different moments both things?

Elena Ferrante

#68. The Morganville in her wanted to tell people to go home and be safe, but she knew that was verging on crazy. The world these laughing people lived in was a very different place. She was in a very different place.

Rachel Caine

#69. she had shed her old skin that was raw and she has transformed into a person so different from the general. She was bold, well learned, and a phoenix that grew out of ashes.

Kavipriya Moorthy

#70. In fact almost everyone in my yearbook wrote the same thing to me: "To weird girl, you're nice." I didn't think it was bad. When I showed my mother she said, "Everyone is different." Being weird became my tool. I'm weird; that's who I am. It was my coping badge.

Jenny Lawson

#71. All she wanted now was to eat her leftover pasta and curl up with a good book. She needed to escape to a different world because she wasn't overly fond of the one she was living in now.

Lily Harper Hart

#72. A dancer on break approached him. She smiled. Each tooth was angled in a different direction, as if her mouth were the masterwork of a mad orthodontist.
"Hi," she said.
"Hi."
"You're really cute."
"I don't have any money."
She spun and walked away. Ah, romance.

Harlan Coben

#73. I did this TV show, which was my first job ever. It wasn't a real acting part. It was like this promo for this sitcom and the main actress was meeting three different real people and then she was going to decide who was going to be on the episode.

Seann William Scott

#74. She was a Seeker now, marked for life.
She had thought this brand would be an eblem of pride, but now it meant something entirely different. She was damned.

Arwen Elys Dayton

#75. She thought men and women belonged to different races and any getting together was worse than

Lorna Sage

#76. The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."

pg 337

Veronica Roth

#77. Two weeks ago at the U.S. Amateur, my mom caddied, and that is kind of a different feeling, because she's your mom and you have to listen to her. It was really comfortable having my mom there, but it's also really relieving and comfortable to have someone that knows the course off their hat, really.

Lydia Ko

#78. It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

Sarah Addison Allen

#79. Thanks, but no thanks. I need my makeup honey. - Carol

Matthew Leeth

#80. Clark. Superman. She loved two men. It was extraordinary how alike and how different they were.-Lois Lane

C.J. Cherryh

#81. But he did not tell her, for he realised how petty it would appear to her, and how different from what she had expected, less sensational and less touching; he was afraid, too, lest, disillusioned in the matter of art, she might at the same time be disillusioned in the greater matter of love.

Marcel Proust

#82. I was a country kid who went to a public school, and she was more of a middle-class girl who attended a private school. I was into hunting and fishing, and she liked drama and singing in the choir at school and church. Our lives up until that point were totally different.

Jase Robertson

#83. As I held onto Rosemary Telesco for dear life, we both knew the truth. She was going off to camp and eventually, private school. We were on different roads, she and me. Two ships that passed in Sheep Meadow.

Jennifer Flackett

#84. She is different from her people. And when she tries to do as they do, it cracks her heart to the core. Looking at her, I know I was wrong. She is not a distraction. She does not compromise my mission. She is the point of it all.

Pierce Brown

#85. As she walked, trying to find a hotel--any hotel--she was offered at least ten different ways of getting high, four or five ways of getting laid, and at least one way of getting even.

S. Andrew Swann

#86. Great art, she felt, had a calming effect on the viewer; it made one stop in awe, which is exactly what Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol did not do. You did not stop in awe. They stopped you in your tracks, perhaps, but that was not the same thing; awe was something quite different

Alexander McCall Smith

#87. There was more to say, but he couldn't find the words. More to say about how different she was, how different she was making him. How differently the time passed whenever they were together. (72%)

Jessica Lemmon

#88. This was ... This was sickeningly different. It was blind, unreasoning hate that just wanted blood and she didn't understand why. It left her feeling horrified and shaky.

Rachel Caine

#89. Then when she really thought about it she realized she'd been becoming different people for as long as she could remember but had never really noticed, or had put it down to moods, or marriage, or motherhood. The problem was that she'd thought that at a certain point she would be a finished product.

Anna Quindlen

#90. It was the year Frankie thought about the world. And she did not see it as a round school globe, with the countries neat and different-colored. She thought of the world as huge and cracked and loose
and turning a thousand miles an hour.

Carson McCullers

#91. She loved her son and wanted him to make a fresh start here. Her ex-husband always tried to pass Aaron off as normal, not wanting anyone to know his son was different. She wasn't going to go down that road.

Tamara Hoffa

#92. Opening a book was like opening a door to another world, and once she stepped across the threshold, she was transported. When she was reading a story, she lived inside a different skin. She

Susan Wiggs

#93. What are you good at?" asked the owner.
"Going after what I believe in." That was the only possible reply; she had spent her life in pursuit of what she believed in. The only problem was that she believed in something different everyday.

Paulo Coelho

#94. America grinned. "No, it's something else," she said, watching Travis' hand as he patted my thigh. She was right; he was different. There was an air of peace around him, almost as if some kind of new contentment had settled into his soul.

Jamie McGuire

#95. Two or more year ago she was out workin' in her rose garden one mornin' - did you know, boy, she's got over sixty different kinds out there? - and she said to me, said, 'Mr. Blakeslee, I wouldn't even mind dyin' if'n I could be buried in a bed of roses.

Olive Ann Burns

#96. She was so far out of my league that we were practically on different continents. And yet I'd never longed for anything as much as I longed for her. I wanted to be good enough for her; I wanted her to want me.

Kirsty Moseley

#97. She was incomparable in her inspired loveliness. Her arms amazed one, as one can be astonished by a lofty way of thinking. Her shadow on the wallpaper of the hotel room seemed the silhouette of her uncorruption.

Boris Pasternak

#98. All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.

Tracy Letts

#99. Ingrid stared at him and again wondered about the boy she had loved and nurtured for the past five years. She always knew he was Chinese, of course, but that was an entirely different thing from understanding what it was to be Chinese. Lee

Beth Cato

#100. The taboo for straight actors playing gay is gone ... My mother was squirming a bit in the theater because she comes from a different generation.

Dean Cain