She Would Quotes

#1. She thought that they could live together for twenty years and he might never consider asking her about marriage. Tom didn't follow the usual patterns.
If marriage was what she wanted, then she would have to be the one to propose to him.

Bonnie Dee

#2. It was always the same now, the ghost always coming between her and her life in the world, so much more important, since that lost being was still her only companion, and their now-obsolete relationship the one true human contact she would ever have.

Anna Kavan

#3. She had a bottle of water in her pack - a big one with a squeeze-top - but suddenly all Trisha wanted in the world was to prime the pump in the little hut and get a drink, cold and fresh, from its rusty lip. She would drink and pretend she was Bilbo Baggins, on his way to the Misty Mountains.

Stephen King

#4. God forbid, if something happened & she lost him for good, she would give up anything to have him back. Anything & everything.

Beth Harbison

#5. What she hadn't expected was how she would feel about ageing. It was as if they were moving even further apart in her mind. The

Robert Bryndza

#6. For weeks, [Sonia] Sotomayor had seen drafts of Ginsburg's opinion as it circulated among the justices. She knew she was about to be a public target. But she would have the courage of her convictions - perhaps stubbornly, misguidedly - yet with confidence enough to be the one in an 8-1 vote.

Joan Biskupic

#7. No, she did not want to go to hospital. Yes, she would like a cup of tea. Only then did she begin to think rationally again.

Stieg Larsson

#8. I always look at a girls shoes. And if they're wearing heels, i wonder how she would look if she was just wearing those.

Sebastian Stan

#9. Despite her self-reproach, she envied Anna, that she could do what Alice couldn't - keep her children safe from harm. Anna would never have to sit opposite her daughter, her firstborn, and watch her struggle to comprehend the news that she would someday develop Alzheimer's.

Lisa Genova

#10. He would seduce her so thoroughly that she would no longer be able to conceive of herself apart from him; she would be his for the taking, anytime he wanted, anywhere, and in any way he chose to take her, able to deny him nothing. He

Karen Marie Moning

#11. It was all horribly ironic that she felt like she would need to be insane to believe the proof that she had never been crazy.

Wen Spencer

#12. Meg was a great reader and was never without a book; while walking to school she often had one open in her hands, so engrossed she would sometimes trip while navigating familiar streets.

Alice Hoffman

#13. A hummingbird cake, she decided as she turned on the kitchen light. It was made with bananas and pineapples and pecans and had a cream cheese frosting.
She would make it light enough to float away.
She reached over to open the window.
To float to her daughter.

Sarah Addison Allen

#14. That she would never see the moments in my life that were full of neglect and fear and revulsion, moments I can never go back to because I know they will slow me down for the rest lf my life if I let myself remember them for one moment

Melina Marchetta

#15. The decor was attractive and strong, but blander than she would have thought his wealth and position afforded him. Caren couldn't see the point of having that much money if all of it led to beige.

Attica Locke

#16. He defied her notions of how she imagined most supernaturals dressed; she would have expected him to be clad in black leather and chains. Instead, he struck her as classic, masterly, sensual.

Kym Grosso

#17. She would read anything from a dictionary to a treatise on turnips. Print fascinated her, dazed her, made her good for nothing...Kylie Tennant

Kylie Tennant

#18. Sharon looked at Aaron and smiled. She'd made the right decision, hadn't she? Would she come to regret this decision too? She'd made so many mistakes in the past. Was this another one? No, self-doubt isn't an option. Everything is going to work out here. It has to.

Tamara Hoffa

#19. Clary's eyes widened. She wondered if she was about to be broken up with. If so, she would have a thing or two to say to Jace about his timing, after she drowned him in the lake.

Cassandra Clare

#20. She would love it. Just as he loved her. He paused for a second, his fingers touching the door handle. He was in love. The realisation came to him quite suddenly.

Lesley Lokko

#21. The world is, she would say. It just is, boy.

Richard Flanagan

#22. She would remain forever young, forever noble, forever his blessedness, and not all the poetry in the world could express his devotion to her.

Sylvain Reynard

#23. she would have been disappointed if he had not demonstrated such idealism, for he was yet to reach twenty-one; youth without optimism, without a strong sense of the possible, would represent a very sad state of affairs.

Jacqueline Winspear

#24. As the carriage bumped her bones along the dark country lanes, Martha decided that if she ever got back to her own time she would write a book called 'Travel in the Edwardian Era. It would be a short book - OUCH in capital letters followed by fifty pages of bad language.

Stephen Cole

#25. poster of San Francisco. The image of the Golden Gate Bridge with Alcatraz off in the distance was one of her favorites. If she could visit one place in the world, that's where she would go.

Marie Force

#26. The tide of her exhilaration drained from her, leaving her exhausted and heartsick. She would have bound the entire city, made them all into her golems, to satisfy her own need to be useful.

Helene Wecker

#27. The situation wasn't ideal. But it was what she had to work with, so she would work with it. She was a tough one,

Lev Grossman

#28. They were growing closer and closer every day, and Charlotte was finding something magical at Wildflower, something she never thought she would find again - love.

Lindsay Detwiler

#29. I dropped the bug with a shudder. 'Is that why Mab wants me?' I asked Ash, who still stood a few feet away. 'As a weapon?'
'Ridiculous isn't it?' Grimalkin purred. 'She cannot even use glamour. She would be a horrible assassin.

Julie Kagawa

#30. He was so graceful and handsome, so loving, so full of the grandness of just living, that Katie, watching him, thought she would die of being happy.

Betty Smith

#31. Travel light, was all she ever said about the house when he suggested he buy her a lamp or anything, and he suspected that she would have said the same thing about having more friends.

Junot Diaz

#32. I hated going to school, mainly because my sister would drive me and she would put her make-up on while she drove. That's dangerous. That should be illegal.

Jackson Rathbone

#33. She was afraid she'd have no hope at all of recognizing the drop without the wagon and boxes there. She would have to get Gawyn to show it to her,

Connie Willis

#34. And since Evie's husband, St. Vincent, had decided not to go fishing, Evie said
she would rather remain in bed with him.
"You would have much more fun fishing with me," Daisy had told her.
"No," Evie had said decisively, "I wouldn't.

Lisa Kleypas

#35. She would live now, not read.

Alice Munro

#36. We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

Hanoi Hannah

#37. When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.

Chuck Palahniuk

#38. Georgia had felt the colours and the rain, but she would not miss here. And there was something lost. The now-ness of things. It was not pretty.

Diana Evans

#39. Kate refused to go to bed - for if she slept, she would have to wake up, she said, and that she could not bear to do-to face afresh the grief she was as yet so little used to.

Elizabeth Taylor

#40. What she would need to do in the days before she left and on the morning of her departure was smile, so that they would remember her smiling. *

Colm Toibin

#41. Her first step toward this end was to cook dinner on Monday evening. In all of her visions of herself as a wife, she would at least sometimes make meals other than canned soup and sandwiches.

Noelle Adams

#42. Of course, she would think that. It's not like you haven't referred to Thor plenty of times as your furry son.

R.J. Nolan

#43. This would be the way to Fanny's heart. She was not to be won by all that gallantry and wit and good-nature together could do; or, at least, she would not be won by them nearly so soon, without the assistance of sentiment and feeling, and seriousness on serious subjects.

Jane Austen

#44. Even the reeking dark in the lion's cage seemed precious and infinitely preferable to whatever lay beyond. She would go out like the flame of a candle. Where does the candle flame go when the candle is blown out?
She laid her painted face against the iron bars and bared her teeth at death.

Kerry Greenwood

#45. Mysterious like the moon,
she would delight you in her glow,
her light alone can make you question yourself..
&
who was she?
She will never let you know.

Nikki Rowe

#46. She had never been taught to ask permission to do things, and she knew nothing at all about authority, so she would not have thought it necessary to ask Mrs. Medlock if she might walk about the house, even if she had seen her.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#47. Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.

Jean Rhys

#48. Just curious. Like James and Victoria had been curious in the beginning? The thought of Victoria made me tremble, thought the one thing they seemed certain of was that it had not been her. Not this time. She would stick to her obsessed pattern. This was just someone else, a stranger.

Stephenie Meyer

#49. Seraphina had found nothing but an end, she thought, a horribly easy end to pain. Her own wouldn't be easy, because she would have to live with it. Live without Michael. And finally accept that she would live without her dream.

Nora Roberts

#50. If the Masquerade could not be stopped by spear or treaty, she would change it from within.

Seth Dickinson

#51. She didn't know what would happen because of this. But she knew that today, she would hurt no one. She threw back her blankets and though only of today.

Kristin Cashore

#52. Lucy had no wish to entertain that gentleman. None at all. It was not that Lucy did not wish to marry Mr. Olson, for she had no doubt that marrying him was the most practical thing to do. Nevertheless, she would very much rather avoid the necessity of making conversation with him.

David Liss

#53. She would have to take this as a lesson for future; she would never get drunk and unknowingly plot world domination with her best friends ever again.

Beth Ashworth

#54. He said her name, repeatedly, so that she never lost the sound of his voice around it. So that every time someone called her name, she would be able to hear only Aman Erum.

Fatima Bhutto

#55. There was something brittle about her, and he feared she would snap apart at the slightest touch; she had thrown herself so fiercely into this, the erasing of memory, that it would destroy her.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#56. In the outer realm, settlers didn't care about supple skin or glossy pink hair. Practical skills were the real beauty in those colonies, and for once, she would be stunning.

Melissa Landers

#57. Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.

Margaret Mitchell

#58. This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need charity; they need justice.

Isabel Allende

#59. I suddenly saw her quite differently. I saw that she was a person. Not my mother. She had thought it all out. She had wanted to commit suicide. She would never commit suicide. On that night I grew up. Or so I would like to believe.

Doris Lessing

#60. I was struck by Suu Kyi's warmth and generosity. No matter how petite she looks, she exudes amazing strength. More than anything else, I felt like I already knew her, like she was an old friend, because I'd been watching her so intently, and she was exactly what I had figured she would be.

Michelle Yeoh

#61. The better she understood the depths of his feelings, the more confident she would be. He wanted her confident.

Gena Showalter

#62. Edith (the future Mrs. Teddy Roosevelt) developed a lifelong devotion to drama and poetry. "I have gone back to Shakespeare, as I always do," she would write seven decades later.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#63. appetites of such a girl. I was nearly certain, she would attempt something, and soon. February 5, 1541

E. Knight

#64. My wife is my favorite person I've ever met in my 40 years on the planet, and I'm sure she would agree that patience is not her strongest characteristic. I don't know that golf would be the game for her.

Mike Greenberg

#65. She insisted on Knight for her last name. It made her feel strong and bold. A name of armor. For she would defend herself in this new life.

Libba Bray

#66. They would be together always. Soul mates. He would never be alone. Never get lost in madness, for she would never fail to find him and bring him back.

Karen Marie Moning

#67. Or - but this more rarely happened - she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in broken words, and seem intent on proving that she had a heart, by breaking it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#68. I had to help those families understand that the person they knew - the full, vital independent human - now lived only in the past and that I needed their input to understand what sort of future he or she would want: an easy death or to be strung between bags of fluids going in, others coming out,

Paul Kalanithi

#69. Are you quite certain you won't mind having a virgin on your hands?" Not that she imagined she would remain that way for much longer. The penis pressing against her seemed to say that her time as a virgin was down to mere minutes.

Hope C. Tarr

#70. But it had always been my mom's philosophy that the way we treat animals goes hand in hand with the way we treat people, and so she would dedicate her life to stopping men like this one, bushmeat traders hoping for sale

Eliot Schrefer

#71. Maybe this time Quinn could bare his heart and soul to Mhisery, let her see all of him, and maybe, just maybe, if he were lucky enough, she would find the bright lights of New York would never match the stars of Georgia.

Shyloh Morgan

#72. Biddy was never insulting, or capricious, or Biddy to-day and somebody else to-morrow; she would have derived only pain, and no pleasure, from giving me pain; she would far rather have wounded her own breast than mine. How could it be, then, that I did not like her much the better of the two?

Charles Dickens

#73. If Mary Lennox had been a child who was ready to be amused she would perhaps have laughed at Martha's readiness to talk, but Mary only listened to her coldly and wondered at her freedom of manner.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#74. This was the moment where she would decide her fate. She could choose to become the powerful Arella she saw or she could remain ignorant and clumsy. She understood now that the choice was entirely hers.

Sarah Elizabeth Petersen

#75. She would disappear folded like origami into her own dreams

Lauren Beukes

#76. She'd put the envelope Tibby had left for her unopened in her underwear drawer. At first it was so she would see it there, and then she tried to cover it so she wouldn't see it there, but it turned out her underwear was too flimsy to cover anything.

Ann Brashares

#77. as they walked home, and she would

Fannie Flagg

#78. I knew I needed Aubrey. I needed her in the worst way possible. I was selfish and frantic, and I honestly didn't care if I took her to hell with me because she would make the trip the sweetest thing I had ever experienced.
She was mine.
And I'd never let her go.

A Meredith Walters

#79. I love you, I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one - that she won't say it back.

Alex Flinn

#80. I'm A Queer Poet Too! She stressed queer not because she walked around identifying as a queer poet but so that the youth understood she would fuck her.

Michelle Tea

#81. Alexia wondered what it said about her character that Ivy had genuinely believed she would intentionally go climbing about the side of a floating dirigible.

Gail Carriger

#82. If she was liquid, she would drink her; if she was a gas, she would breathe her; if she was a pill, she would down her'; if she was a dress, she would wear her; a plate, she would lick her clean.

Maggie O'Farrell

#83. My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

Uzo Aduba

#84. Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

Milan Kundera

#85. 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

#86. Rachel ain't here. Not that she would wanna talk to you anyhows, you slimy

Sandra Hill

#87. He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.
She was the book thief without the words.
Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.

Markus Zusak

#88. I'd go to the library so I could sit in a big, quiet room and listen to pages being turned. There was a boring librarian who everyone in fifth grade hated. But I loved her because when she would read us stories in her soft voice, she'd turn my head into a snow globe.

Andrea Seigel

#89. Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters.

Virginia Woolf

#90. Like Sarah, treat your husband like what he might become. When all the facts said Sarah would have no vineyard, she became a matriarch to nations. Sarah learned to behave as though she would become a mother to nations
and she did.
pg 21

Michael Ben Zehabe

#91. The Wing Leader said from behind her, "Do you believe monsters are born, or made?"
From what she'd seen today, she would say some creatures were very much born evil. But what Manon was asking ... "I'm not the one who needs to answer that question." Elide said.

Sarah J. Maas

#92. This woman enabled her husband to cheat, and she wasn't doing either one of them any favors. Instead of leaving him, she would take him home, scold him, and then carry on with business as usual. Inside though, she would be hurting.
No woman could love a cheater and not pay the price for it.

Rose Wynters

#93. It is time to "perform," he thought. She would have to be "satisfied." He would have to "service" her. They would make efforts to "interact.

Don DeLillo

#94. My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed, and she would share her dreams with me.

Liz Murray

#95. And even though she could remember most of the sentences and every plot point, the story would never be what it had been. She would never again be who she'd been.

Meljean Brook

#96. He'd gone into their marriage determined that she would never be alone again. In the end,
she'd made him as alone in the world as she.

Sherry Thomas

#97. Boston Frozen with Terror; Serial Killer on the Loose! Could Be Anywhere! Tracy threw back her head. She was not frozen with terror, and never would be. She would find him, stop the killings.

Julian Starr

#98. She was one of her kind, the most American she would ever be, the last American left in this hundred-year flood.

Matthew Salesses

#99. She shook her head in perplexity. "I'll never know where you got the idea that you were destined for greatness." She dropped the rest of the rabbit in the pot and begun to clean the underside of its skin. She would use the fur. "You certainly didn't inherit it from your forebears.

Ken Follett

#100. She would be free of mundane care, she was a pure will towards right. She had sold herself, but she had a new freedom. She had got rid of her body. She had sold a lower thing, her body, for a higher thing, her freedom from material things.

D.H. Lawrence