Top 100 Sherry Thomas Quotes
#1. He took a strand of hair that had fallen loose from her chignon between his fingers. The gesture shocked her, not because his self-control seemed to have snapped, but the exact opposite - it felt like a deliberate choice on his part.
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#2. a drunk did not expect the bottle to love him back,and she only wished to drink him in whenever she could.
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#3. They all three threw up shields at the same time, Titus for Iolanthe, Iolanthe for Titus, and Lady Wintervale for them both.
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#4. Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn't know my name and barely knew my face.
- Leo
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#5. Wintervale, by being so open, trusting, and artless his entire life, had made his more cynical friends hang on to their secrets. And in doing so, they had preserved themselves from the Bane.
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#6. Because being in love does not give you any excuse to be less than honorable, Lady
Tremaine.
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#7. There was no such thing as a marriage with one happy spouse. Both must be or neither.
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#8. And suddenly she resembled not so much a bland dish of pudding as the surface of a well-known, yet never explored lake, and he, standing on the banks, had just seen a movement underwater, an enigmatic shadow that disappeared so quickly he wasn't sure he hadn't imagined the whole thing.
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#9. Trust ran both ways. How could he ask her to trust him when he hardly trusted her?
He would trust her, in her love, in her strength, in her decency and fortitude.
And when the time came, he would find the strength in himself.
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#10. He admired her surety. She knew her own worth and did not pretend otherwise for those who judged her on her parentage. But by refusing to tolerate fools and play nice, she'd condemned herself to a solitary path, both in defeat and in victory.
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#11. How did one deal with such ingrained cowardice? Then I realized that there is no such thing as courage in the absence of cowardice. Courage is also a choice: It's what happens when one refuses to give in to fear.
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#12. Better be unromantic than thoroughly used and still poor.
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#13. But you do not need to worry, Cooper. What is mine, I keep.
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#14. How ironic that when they'd been married, she'd never thought of growing old with him.
Yet now, years after the annulment, she should think of it with the yearning of an exile, for
the homeland that had long ago evicted her.
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#15. No," she replied, her voice barely audible. "I thought we might create some sparks together. But now I know nothing we do will ever rival the passionate embrace between a hunting rope and a snake.
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#17. You are asking me to give up everything for a cause that isn't mine. I don't want to be part of any revolution. I just want to live.
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#18. Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.
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#19. This time he could no longer hold back his tears. And with them came words that he'd never been able to say to her his entire life. I love you, Helena. I have always loved you. Wake up and let me prove it to you.
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#20. You are the beginning of Eternity now, she said silently to Master Haywood. You have arrived at the end of Fear. And I will love you always, for as long as the world endures.
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#21. Perhaps unrequited love was like a specter in the house, a presence that brushed at the edge of senses, a heat in the dark, a shadow under the sun.
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#22. It won't be disagreeable," he said. "It can be made quite enjoyable."
"Oh, it had better be," she said tartly. "I've heard plenty over the years on your amatory prowess. If I'm not on the roof crowing, I will consider myself disappointed.
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#23. At her incendiary words, he drove deeper - far deeper - into her, unable to help himself.
"So," she said, her fingers on his cheek, "now I've made you mine."
He took her fingers in hand and kissed them one by one. "You made me yours long ago, but now you finally claimed me.
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#25. That was how he would go on tormenting her, after his physical departure from her life. A baroque plan, byzantine even, a plan that both pleased and shamed him.
He awaited only the night, this one grotesque, terrible night.
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#26. Dreams are not real; but when you are inside a dream, it is real to you.
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#27. I wonder now how we got by when you weren't here."
"I have no doubt the devastation was widespread, the suffering universal."
"Indeed, it was the Dark Ages in the annals of Mrs. Dawlish's house. Ignorance was thick on the ground, and unenlkghtenment befogged all the windows.
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#28. He smiled at her. And it hit her like a mallet to the temple, the realization that she was in love with him. Stupidly, dreadfully in love with him.
Overnight, she'd become a fool.
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#29. Outwardly, other than her hair, she had not changed much. She was still more or less the same cool, aloof woman who garnered more respect than affection. On the inside, however, it had been impossible to return to the person she used to be.
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#30. I guess what I'm really trying to say is that you used to shatter easily. But
now you've become less brittle.
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#31. All your
emotions were so intense - your anger like daggers, your unhappiness a poisoned well. Even
your love had such sharp corners and dark alleys.
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#32. I see you are still determined to not listen to me about not venturing abroad after lights-out.'
She sat down across from him at the worktable. 'I never listen to you when I know enough to make up my own mind.
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#34. We will never accomplish anything worthwhile in life if we require the guarantee of success at the onset.
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#35. If she hadn't been at peace, then at least she
wasn't at war with herself.
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#36. So . . . you want me to fall in love with you, while you play kissing games with another girl?
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#37. The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.
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#39. Her jaw dropped. She grabbed him by the shoulders. "I think I have formed an attachment to you. You know, what the English call a desire to have symphonic concerts with someone at all hours of the day?"
He smiled. "And I love you too, darling."
-Lizzy and Will
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#40. Don't worry, darling. I'll look out for myself. And I've reached an age when I have no problem telling someone to fuck off.
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#41. Friendship is untenable for people in our position.
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#42. He used to believe that to forgive was to allow an offense to go unpunished. Now he finally understood that forgiveness was not about the past, but the future.
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#43. Wait, here comes Cooper. In which case, carry on with your melodramatic moaning, but put some majesty into it. You know he lives to hear you judge everything as unworthy.
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#44. Was unhappiness really so invisible? Or did people simply prefer to turn away, as if from lepers?
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#45. Despite all her strengths, there was a certain brittleness to her. Sometimes she retreated into
her keep. Sometimes she ran away. But she did not forgive and she did not forget.
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#46. But sometimes the males of the species brought home shiny, beautiful things,
with hope burning in their hearts.
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#47. Or perhaps I've already despaired - and decided that while despair is fine as an occasional indulgence, it can't be served three times a day.
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#48. And Tomlinson found this in the Times right before I left to come here. Windham
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#49. She wanted to run her hands over him as he whispered the impassioned corollaries of non-Euclidean geometry.
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#50. She was proud one moment, covetous the next, and then fearful the moment after that. It would always be like this, wouldn't it, being the wife of a man she loved but couldn't trust, whose true motives were as murky as the bottom of the sea?
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#51. Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it.
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#52. If all I have to do is remain awake to be considered romantic, than I can promise you a great deal of romance in our marriage.
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#53. She'd never thought of herself quite that way. She was more an idiosyncratic ignorer of established boundaries than a glutton for the new and the uncharted. But perhaps they were one and the same, each one implying the other.
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#54. Fortune favors the brave."
Another moment of silence. And then, Iolanthe found herself shouting at the top of her lungs, her voice nearly drowned by the bellow of all the rebels present, "And the brave make their own fortune!
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#55. I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.
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#56. Did you ever find yourself considering matters from the Chinese point of view?'
'It would be strange if I never did, wouldn't it? Everyone should be able to consider matters form someone else's perspective.
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#57. She had grown so accustomed to this exterior that she didn't always remember what truly lay underneath. Nor did she particularly want to. Why fester in disillusion, bewilderment, and anger when she could float above and pretend to be this sunny, charming girl instead?
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#58. We are all going to die soon. Do you really wish to waste time being angry at me?"
"Yes. I remain an unrepentant optimist. If i see that I am about to die, or you, I will forgive you. But not until then, you bastard.
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#59. Now he could work her likeness into any story of his choosing. Now he could fight dragons for her. And now he could kiss her again.
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#60. It was the beginning of the end.
Or perhaps, it was only the end of something that was never meant to begin.
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#61. This is the story of a girl who fooled a thousand boys, a boy who fooled an entire country, a partnership that would change the fate of realms, and a power to challenge the greatest tyrant the world had ever known. Expect magic.
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#63. The hero is a secret agent? Well, who gives a crap about the rest of his case once he has met the heroine. Time for moody angst!
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#64. One could say lightning is the marriage of fire and air." "One could say mud is the marriage of water and earth," he said dismissively.
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#65. But I can only pray ardently that Fortune walks with you, that you discover hitherto unimagined strength in yourself and encounter unexpected friends along this perilous path that you must now tread.
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#66. Humans, herself included, held no
interest for her except as living machines, mind-bogglingly intricate, beautiful systems that
somehow housed individuals not quite worthy of the miracle of their physical bodies.
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#68. It was a few minutes before Helena could stop panting. She dared not read any further, or she'd crash through the connecting door and ravish Hastings - and she was far from sure how she felt about him.
As she was reading the manuscript of The Bride of Larkspear
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#69. Lexington, met the man who would inspire four long years of unrequited love on her part, she was thinking about fossils. She didn't have any
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#70. There was an intimate connection between them, as if they'd known each other always. They were not strangers; they'd merely never met before.
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#71. There was no idiocy bigger than that committed by a man who believed himself the cleverest creature under the sun.
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#72. I like money very well. It is the means to independence and authority.
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#73. And that is why You do not trifle with the Master of the Domain.
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#74. She felt as if she'd been hugging puppies all day.
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#75. What is it?" she mumbled.
"Something that will make my kisses taste like chocolate.
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#76. Love will make you weak and indecisive, remember?" she murmured.
What a fool he had been. For a journey like theirs, love was the only thing that would make him strong enough.
"Don't ever listen to an idiot like me," he answered.
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#77. Why allow all the old memories to have supremacy? Make new ones, memories of such luster and beauty that, should the old ones come back, they would be pallid and impotent in comparison.
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#78. Then she spied the cauldeon, sitting upright at the very bottom of the crater, filled with the most beautiful exiler she'd ever seen, like distilled starlight.
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#80. Then he made love to her not only as if he had never experienced lovemaking before, but no one had.
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#81. You don't know how to converse. Sometimes I think the spaces between the
stars are filled with your silence.
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#82. He put his hand over hers. "Am I a coward?"
"Because you are afraid? No. Only fools are never afraid.
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#83. The buttons on her back gave way as if before a Mongol horde.
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#84. I will have you know that I have the brightest mind and the keenest wit. Why, people are often astounded by the perspicacity of my discourse and the subtlety of my insight!" He
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#85. The summer night sky over the Hindu Kush, domed by the Milky Way's mage light, was infinitely splendid. Strewn against this craggy luminosity, millions of tiny stars shone, a diamond heist gone awry.
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#86. Love was not blind, but it might mimic a deteriorating case of cataracts.
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#87. Even the boy who cried wolf as right about the wolf once.
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#88. Alas, would that it were as easy to appease the heart as it is to satisfy the stomach.
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#89. Perhaps you forgave him too much, but who among us would not wish to be so generously loved and generously forgiven?
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#90. There existed something in this world that bound a mage tighter than a blood oath: love. Love was the ultimate chain, the ultimate whip, and the ultimate slave driver.
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#91. Are you sure? I might take it as permission to further push my company on you.
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#92. He glanced at her. "You were the moon of my existence; your moods dictated the tides of my heart."
The tides of her own heart surged at his words, even though his words were nothing but lies.
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#93. He kissed her on her ear, a kiss with the barest hint of moisture to it. She could not breath for the electricity of it, a violent spark of pleasure that shook and scarred. His fingers caressed her shoulders. His lips pressed into her exposed nape. Dark, hot sensations spiked into her.
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#94. I only speak the truth. I quite despise myself for these desires that run amok. But run amok they do. I daresay for the rest of my life I will dream of being fondled by you.
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#95. He did not look like an archangel - if archangels looked as he did, there would be no women of virtue left in Paradise.
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#96. Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn't be interesting.
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#97. Was it possible - was it at all possible that she could come out of her most desperate choice with a man as clever as Odysseus who looked like Achilles and made love like Paris ... ?
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#98. For what is the Void but the beginning of Light? What is Light but the end of Fear? And what am I, but Light given from? What am I, but the beginning of Eternity?
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#99. If God doesn't want people to lie, he shouldn't have given the best liars such earnest and innocent faces.
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#100. Some lovers were fortunate enough to grow old together. They'd grown old apart. She did not think him any less handsome. She only wished that she'd been there when the first line on his face had appeared, so that she could have stroked and kissed and cherished it.
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