Should've Quotes

#1. Gansey could've had any and all of the friends that he wanted. Instead he had chosen the three of them, three guys who should've, for three different reasons, been friendless.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. It was my fault, too," he continues. "I got him killed." "That's not true." "It is. Five kicked my ass and I couldn't help myself. Had to keep talking, had to show him. It should've been me. You know it; I know it; Marina damn sure knows it.

Pittacus Lore

#3. As I was saying. He could never use you. You own him. You should've seen the way he was looking at you while you were out."
I smiled a little. "How?"
"Like you're the ocean and he's desperate to drown.

Michelle Hodkin

#4. I know, I should've just shut him down like a Broadway Musical, but that's just not the way I'm wired.

Lynne Spears

#5. I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

Gary Allan

#6. Goodbye my almost lover, goodbye my hopeless dream, I'm tryin not to think about you, Can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you, should've known you'd bring me heartbreak, almost lovers always do

A Fine Frenzy

#7. I was almost tragically shy, like, clinically. I should've been admitted somewhere. I think my parents knew, but maybe they didn't think much about it. It's hard walking the Earth shy. You miss out on a lot.

Joelle Carter

#8. He wore a threadbare white T-shirt that should've been as noteworthy as a bowl of oatmeal. Instead, it clung to his chest like it had aspirations of taking over for his skin. Hell, she'd have the same life goal.

Christine Bell

#9. I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts of my body or anything like that. I feel like it's just all in how I dress and how I talk and how I look and feel, and that makes me happy.

Ruby Rose

#10. Ever, my grief is for me, not Lina. She's fine ... happy even. You should've seen her-it was like she was headed off on her most exciting adventure yet.

Alyson Noel

#11. Toby Keith writes songs like 1993's "Should've Been a Cowboy," and what's compelling is that you can't deconstruct its message. "Should've Been a Cowboy" is not like Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive," where Jon Bon Jovi claimed to live like a cowboy; Toby Keith wants to be a cowboy for real.

Chuck Klosterman

#12. Do I even want to know what that was?" I only half way wanted an answer.

"It's something you should've already taken by now." I lifted my head, searching his face, but when I did his face doubled. Fact two: he'd drugged me. Great.

Angela McPherson

#13. Contrary to popular belief," Gretchen grumbled. "It's creepy to watch a girl while she sleeps."
Clint shrugged and smiled. "Sorry, I guess I should've just woken you up.

Aria Kane

#14. It suddenly occurred to him that for the first time in years, they were about to be alone together for more than five minutes.
Just the two of them. On a small jet. Tens of thousands of feet in the air.
Christ.
Maybe he should've packed a parachute, just in case.

Elle Kennedy

#15. Did you love Melanie?" asked Adam unexpectedly.
There was no pause before I shook my head.
"That's a shame," said Adam.
"Why?"
"Well, someone as special as your daughter should've been ... made with love.

Malorie Blackman

#16. Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've ... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

Rick Rubin

#17. Remember when we had trouble beating the last few levels of Zelda? We pooled our allowances and bought the walk-through guide to help us out.' He softly adds, 'You should've asked for help before cheating.

Adam Silvera

#18. Hearing that I'd come so close to dying should've terrified me, but all I could muster up was a weary This day sucks.

Jeaniene Frost

#19. The honest to God truth is that I'm mad at myself. I should've known better.

Miranda Kenneally

#20. Hee hee hee! You should've seen the look on your face!"
"If mom and dad cared about me at all, they'd buy me some infra-red nighttime vision goggles.

Bill Watterson

#21. In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly.

Liam Neeson

#22. You see.. I have this book. Within the pages of this book are things that I should've told you. I call this book "Hesitation".

Andrew King

#23. There was nothing normal or typical about our love. We should've been one hot mess of madness for all that we'd suffered, but just as a flower grows from the sky's tears, our love grew from pain. It blossomed in darkness and thrived with time.

Keri Lake

#24. If you're scared, you should've stayed at home," Byram said.
"If you're not scared, you're stupid.

Cinda Williams Chima

#25. I shouldn't have come," I said.
"Of course you should've. Otherwise I'd be fending off advances from Mrs. Stone.

Brodi Ashton

#26. I'm not a hundred percent sure why I'm here, only that it feels good to be somewhere where no one hates me. It's sad that I would rather be with a total stranger than with people that should've been my family.

Joan Reginaldo

#27. That was one lesson he should've learned the first time. We don't, of course. It's okay, Karla once said, because if we all learned what we should learn, the first time round, we wouldn't need love at all.

Gregory David Roberts

#28. You should've come with me. Had fun, lots of fun." The last sentence was deep with sensuality. "You don't know what you're missin', Faithie."

"Then I don't miss it, do I?" Faith whispered, and Jodie giggled.

Linda Howard

#29. I Should've walked away. Now, it's too late. It's too fucking late for both of us.

Lara Adrian

#30. I love you, Ava. I should've started this whole crazy thing by saying that. I love you and I missed you like mad. It wasn't a spell. It was you. I found home.

Kelly Moran

#31. I should've let her walk right out the door, but something about Nadya made it tough for me to be the asshole I wanted to be.

Lisa Kessler

#32. I woke with sweat beading across my forehead and my hands balled into fists clutching the sheet over my eyes. The dreams. They were back. Haunting me relentlessly. I thought they were gone ... I should've known better. (Rayne)

Kimberly Brockman

#33. I should've been a nun, he says, half aloud, as his feet leave the ledge.

Dale McGowan

#34. Cuz if he was hot, you should've used it to your benefit. That could've become the best ice breaker in history. Like you two could fall madly in love and you get to tell everyone how you plowed him before he actually plowed you.

J. Lynn

#35. Let everyone, everywhere know that where Your name is called upon, Your people can win battles they never should've won.

Karen Kingsbury

#36. You know, the first two, I probably should've seen coming. The leprechaun costume? Not so much.

Rich Burlew

#37. 'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.

Joe Abercrombie

#38. We think we know where we're aiming, and perhaps we do - but morning comes, and a change in the light, and we find out we should've been trying in a different direction after all.

Sarah Perry

#39. I know it's my fault I should've gave more.

Tyga

#40. [Reggie] had a way of picking the bad ideas, which is why we should've just said no.
(from GAMELAND Episode 1: Deep into the Game)

Saul Tanpepper

#41. The Lynburns built this town on their blood and bones."
"That was their first mistake," Jared said. "They should've built a city on rock and roll.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#42. Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978 ... I wrote like 300 songs and I'm gonna have to re-learn some of them!

Billy Joel

#43. You should've known this ring belongs to me. Eye of the tiger."
I shoved him. "But I have the heart of the wolf, asshole.

Lisa Kessler

#44. Should've known when I met her mama. The big, fat acorn didn't fall too far from the big, fat tree.

Johnny Shaw

#45. Luna had never been good at coping with death. After all she had gone through, she knew she should've been trained.
But she wasn't. She was regrettably human.

Kayla Krantz

#46. I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive.

Frank Herbert

#47. The question I should've been asking myself was, in ninety-nine years, how will I find another Forfeit who will survive the Feed? But the question I actually asked myself was, Could Nikki ever look at me the way she looked at Jack in those final moments?

Brodi Ashton

#48. I should've seen this coming miles away; should've known that you would never bare your soul to me like I bared mine to you.

Whitney Gracia Williams

#49. He thought back to his early twenties when he'd routinely looked for ways to meet women. He should've rented a puppy.

Nora Roberts

#50. But Michael Vick killed dogs, and he did in a heartless and cruel way. And I think, personally, he should've been executed for that. He wasn't, but the idea that the President of the United States would be getting behind someone who murdered dogs?

Tucker Carlson

#51. If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan.

Phil McGraw

#52. We should've brought him a silver stake," Dimitri said. "I'm surprised Eddie hasn't taught him already.

Richelle Mead

#53. I should've been better. But sometimes all you can really stand to do is think about yourself. Sometimes it's the only way to cope. The only way to make sense of something as colossal and and intimidating as the world is to make it about you.

Emma Mills

#54. I saw darkness in her beauty, and she saw beauty in my darkness. Yin and yang. Black and white. Beauty and scars; fury and forgiveness. She should've been my nemesis, but in her, I found something I didn't know I was looking for.

Keri Lake

#55. If evolution was worth its salt, by now it should've evolved something better than survival of the fittest. I think a better idea would be survival of the wittiest.

Jane Wagner

#56. It should've been illegal for a man to walk around like that without some sort of permit.

Julie James

#57. We formed the fellowship of the ring when we should've all just gone on medication

Nancy Werlin

#58. She felt as though she'd found a moment of forever. Like this was how they should've always been

Veronica Rossi

#59. I'm not sure I'll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I should've said.

Megan McCafferty

#60. That kind of love should've been able to beat sickness. That kind of love should've conquered anything.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#61. Hugh should've brought a banner with I AM BAD stitched on it in gold.

Ilona Andrews

#62. I haven't endorsed John McCain. And I've never been there with John McCain because I've always felt that he should've done a much better job for the vets. He has not done a good job for the vets and I've always felt that he should've done a much better job for the vets.

Donald Trump

#63. What happened to [Michael Brown] should've never happened. Never. But when we don't have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don't start with just a rally, don't start from looting - it starts from within.

Kendrick Lamar

#64. Reed, I should've protected myself against you, but I didn't and now you live here, inside of me," I say, pointing to my heart. "I won't ever be able to run from the love I have for you. Your name is written on my heart. I can't hide from it and it will wreck me if something happens to you -

Amy A. Bartol

#65. You should've warned me," Tink muttered crossly. "I'm the one who had to see his dong swinging around

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#66. I shouldn't have let you go. I should've said something yesterday, but it was intense for me, too, and you scared me, Cody. You scare me a lot."
"That's because you're a city dick," I reply. "City dicks are always scared."
"So I've been told."
"Well, you scare me, too", I say.

Gayle Forman

#67. They bit you. You should've changed, too, you know."
"Sometimes I wish I had," I told him.
He closed his eyes, miles away on the other side of the bed. "Sometimes I do, too.

Maggie Stiefvater

#68. Apologize for not being mine when you should've been. Because Emilia, baby..." I tilted my head sideways. "It was always fucking us and you know it.

L.J. Shen

#69. But I never loved her. Not the way I should've. Not the way I love you.

M. Leighton

#70. He should've read the contract a little closer before he signed, but being moments from a painful and violent death had provided a necessary sense of urgency.

Andrea Laurence

#71. I should've known the day was going to turn out bad when it started with my father trying to kill me

Darynda Jones

#72. I should've written a contract up before we slept together so he understood exactly what it entailed outside the bedroom. It meant you have to agree with everything I say, especially when people I don't like are present

Donna Augustine

#73. I probably should've thought about talking to Uncle Gary a lot earlier. He's been married something like four times already, so he's an EXPERT on relationships.

Jeff Kinney

#74. What can I do for you, Detective?' he said cheerily, smiling and nodding at Bailey.
What was I, chopped liver? I had a badge too. Maybe I should've shown it to him. Maybe I should've shown him my gun too.

Marcia Clark

#75. Only two things I know about Albuquerque - Bugs Bunny should've taken a left turn there. And give me a hundred tries, I'll never be able spell it.

Jimmy McGill

#76. I should've told you that you could rearrange continents with that smile of yours.

Shinji Moon

#77. We should've been better, more disciplined. We made untimely mistakes defensively, as a group. This is really humbling for us. After winning the Stanley Cup, we got brought back down to earth, hard. Maybe the humbling is good for us in the long run.

Steve Yzerman

#78. You should've let me twist his head off," Mahon said. "You can't let people insult your wife, Curran. One day you'll have to choose diplomacy or your spouse. I'm telling you now, it's got to be your wife. Diplomacy doesn't care if you live or die. Your wife does.

Ilona Andrews

#79. Maybe we should've stayed like that, just hanging out. Maybe we never should've kissed those Keeley boys.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#80. You wish to be free, but there is no such thing as freedom. You can redecorate dungeon to give illusion of freedom, but you are still in dungeon." "I should've had the choice." "Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom.

Carolyn Crane

#81. I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't know why I'm not gay.

Frank Oz

#82. One thing that influenced me in the States when I was doing this recording was American people feeding me things like Arnold Dreyblatt, even things I should've heard back in New Zealand like Peter Jefferies and Jono Lonie 'At Swim 2 Birds.

Roy Montgomery

#83. You were my fucking sanctuary, that's what you were to me. You were my guilty indulgence. I should've stayed away from you, but I couldn't. I still can't. Jeezus. Look at me. I'm damn near on my knees here

Tijan

#84. I should've died with my parents ... than live in this world," I say, my voice is faint
He asks, "Why choose to die if you can live this world?" He chuckled.
I gave him a faint smile and say, "A world so hateful, some would rather die, than be who they are.

Alyanna Mallari

#85. The Lord probably didn't appreciate her feigning nearsightedness in order to repeatedly lean into her husband when she should've been concentrating on the meaning behind the hymn she was singing.

Karen Witemeyer

#86. I listen to my voice messages like once a month," I remind Henry. "You should've texted me.

Hugh Howey

#87. You should've run faster, Lexi. You should've stayed far away from the Dark. But most of all, you should never have fallen for your Dragon King. It'll only bring you misery and death. Humans and Kings were never meant to mix.

Donna Grant

#88. I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.

Adam Ant

#89. Aw, man, Ava, I should've gotten my own room!" Sully groaned. She

Cynthia Eden

#90. You amaze me Lissa Daniels. Most girls would cave as soon as I gave them the puppy-dog look with these amazing eyes."
"Sorry. I like boys. Not dogs. You should've dated a different girl if you wanted someone to bend to your will.

Kody Keplinger

#91. The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should've arrested him for it.

Junot Diaz

#92. What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year.

Rick Riordan

#93. She shivered as a blustery wind rushed past. She'd made a mistake in returning to the city. She should've stayed in the castle with Antoine. She'd be warm in his arms right now, instead of being held prisoner.

Lisa Carlisle

#94. Cheer up and dry your damp eyes,
And tell me when it rains,
And I'll blend up that rainbow above you & shoot it through your veins ...
'Cause your heart has a lack of color,
And we should've known
That we'd grow up sooner or later,
'Cause we wasted all our free time alone. <3

Owl City

#95. Cancer is a disease of the genome. And that's what happens. You make mistakes in a cell somewhere in your body that causes it to start to grow when it should've stopped, and that's cancer. And those mistakes are mistakes of DNA.

Francis Collins

#96. Lilac Rose LaRoux. Untouchable. Toxic. I should've been named Ivy, or Foxglove, or Belladonna.

Amie Kaufman

#97. I do not believe that Darren Wilson should've been charged, but Brown should not have lost his life. Brown and Trayvon Martin should've gotten their butts kicked badly. They should've been handled physically, but they should not have been killed.

Niger Innis

#98. I've been an Obama supporter since he announced he was campaigning. I was aware of him as a senator, but I wasn't as engaged as I probably should've been.

Pete Wentz

#99. I should've known the eyes. Wide, bright blue, and something about the delicate arc of the lids: a cat's slant, a pale jeweled girl in an old painting, a secret.

Tana French

#100. Now I know who you are U got nothin' on me, I see I should've known it from the start You can't tell me lies Don't even try cuz This is goodbye Goodbye

Demi Lovato