Tersely Quotes

#1. She would have asked Noah to confirm this, but he was notoriously disinterested in the details of his afterlife. (Once, Gansey had tersely asked, "Don't you care how it is that you're still here?" and Noah had answered with remarkable acumen, "Do you care how your kidneys work?")

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?"
The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: "We should be mindful of everything, for we can interpret everything.

Hermann Hesse

#3. tersely. Then the line

David Baldacci

#4. Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

Horace Mann

#5. He had noticed my bandaged hand.
"An accident," Warthrop said tersely.
"Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife."
Von Helrung's brow knotted up in confusion. "By accident?"
"No," I answered. "That part was on purpose.

Rick Yancey

#6. Michael nodded tersely, eyeing a table across the room. It was empty. So empty. So joyfully, blessedly empty.
He could picture himself a very happy man at that table.
"Not feeling very conversational this evening, are we?" Colin asked, breaking into his (admittedly tame) fantasies.

Julia Quinn

#7. Flying monkeys?" the Gasman called out a guess. "Like in the Wizard of Oz?"
It dawned on me then. "No," I said tersely "Worse. Flying Erasers.

James Patterson

#8. Everybody is agreeing so tersely. I just had a flashback to the month before my parents finally admitted they were getting a divorce.

Samantha Bee

#9. Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her."
"Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea.

Zadie Smith

#10. Aline," he interrupted tersely, "the forces of heaven and hell combined couldn't stop me from making love to you right now."
That hardly left room for ambiguity.

Lisa Kleypas

#11. The house was on fire," i greeted them tersely. "In case you're interested."
they both glanced up overhead as if to make sure the house was still standing. Fang sniffed, smelling the smoke.
It's out, right?" he said

James Patterson

#12. Your perfume. . .' His tone held a faint hint of surprise. 'I'd somehow expected you to wear something more. . .sultry. I don't recognize this fragrance.'
'It's new," Courtenay said tersely. 'It's called Get Lost. You've probably never encountered it before.

Grace Green

#13. You'll know you're doing something right if you feel you don't know what you're doing... if you know what you are doing, you are doing it right- but you might just repeating yourself...

Natasha Tsakos

#14. You look at pictures of Nepal, push a smile button, and you think that's the same as going there.

Dave Eggers

#15. There's a million was of saying
words that mean you won't be staying.
But couldn't we just skip the bye-ing?
We could stay and keep on hi-ing!

Rebecca Doughty

#16. Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#17. If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

Paulo Coelho

#18. You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.

Elie Wiesel

#19. Perhaps writing a story or a novel was not something that should be done for money, or to win praise, but for the sheer sensual pleasure of it. I liked that idea. It made me want to write lots of stories, to give myself that pleasure.

Vanessa Wu

#20. We forget that things can only be things when there is something which is not a thing, the space.

Chris Matakas

#21. And by the way, if she constantly leaving you messages that she's in another castle...she's just not that into you. Move on.

Eric Smith

#22. I hated school ... I freaking hated it. The fact is that it revolved around something you didn't have access to. If you weren't on the football team, if you were in the band, you were a leper. When people say those were the best years of our lives, I want to scream.

Trent Reznor

#23. In the shade of words sits life itself.

Aisha Mirza

#24. I think we're in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don't think that's even questioned.

Josh Fox

#25. Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

Ernst Mayr