Top 100 This She Quotes
#1. That's not a lucky thing, Cecil," said Teresa, "it's a sacred thing."
"What's the difference?" Cecil asked.
Teresa smiled. "Roughly this," she said. "A thing is magic if you get what you want through it; but if it is blessed you get what God wants through it.
Meriol Trevor
#2. If you look good, you can act in a Bollywood movie, you don't have to be able to act; and Aishwarya Rai is a great example of this. She is a beautiful woman ... You look at her, I want to look at her. Damn, she is fine; but stop acting or stop trying to act.
Russell Peters
#3. Remember this, she thought. The way the light caught in his unruly hair, the love in his brown eyes, the chapped lips that had kissed her only an hour ago, in the darkness.
Kristin Hannah
#4. You're a little trickier...." Johnny Hands narrowed his eye at Ivy. "Something small like you, perhaps? Or something quick and lethal?"
Lethal? Ivy couldn't believe he was saying this. She was eleven. What did she want with a lethal weapon?
Jennifer Bell
#5. There was a certain bitter humor to lying awake wishing for something one cannot have, after lying awake not so long ago wishing for the opposite thing that one had just lost. Not a very useful sort of adaptability, this, she thought.
Robin McKinley
#6. My young love said to me,'My brothers won't mind, And my parents won't slight you for your lack of kind.' Then she stepped away from me, and this she did say, 'It will not be long, love, till our wedding day.
Padraic Colum
#7. What will you do with all this?" she said, pointing to the tea.
"Invite you back to drink it," he murmured.
"I might say yes.
Nicki Edwards
#8. Are you sure you're allowed to do this?" she said. "No! I'm not! I won't know until after I've done it! That's why I've got to do it! Then I'll know!
Terry Pratchett
#9. And if he wants more, she'll give it. If he says, 'God means for us to do this,' she'll believe him.
Ava Dellaira
#10. Hank, this is great."
"Yes."
He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This, she knew, was a tribute to her, the rarest one person could pay another: the tribute of feeling free to acknowledge one's own greatness, knowing that it is understood.
Ayn Rand
#11. How can you sleep at a time like this?" she asked, but the only answer was a low snore. She looked at him suspiciously. In the short time she had been with him, she had never before heard him snore.
"You're faking," she said.
"No. I'm really fast asleep," came his voice from under the cowl.
John Flanagan
#12. If they lived through this, she promised to herself she'd be different. More open. Less worried. More fun. Less angry. More loving.
J.A. Konrath
#13. How'd you get in here?"
She raised her eyebrows. "You pick pockets." Kat watched his hand fly to his back pocket. "I can pick locks. Looking for this?" she asked, holding up his wallet. "Oops. Maybe I can pick pockets too.
Ally Carter
#14. And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man; she likes him. Now she jumps on this thing and rides it to some kind of standstill. Then she changes it and trains it, and to the exact degree that she's able to do this, she disrespects him.
Jack Nicholson
#15. she thinks she's going to force me out of the race like this, she has another thing coming to her.
Jonathan Allen
#16. What's this?" She pulled out a card and held it away from her face. "I can't read what it says." I took it from her and read it aloud.
1. Beeber Bifocal
2. Twenty Mile House
3. Bee
4. Your escape
Fourteen miracles to go.
Maria Semple
#17. I had a friend who was getting married. I said, 'You're getting married - I didn't know about all this!' She said, 'I need health benefits.'
Nancy Pelosi
#18. History will remember this," she says. "I do not need to.
Michelle Moran
#19. What foul sorcery is this?" she said. "Pretty standard foul sorcery; nothing special." "Okay," she said. "Just checking.
Steven Brust
#20. He took her like He took my mother. To torment me! To kill me and keep me alive to live dead! She did this, she let that bastard do this and your stupid loving GOD allowed it!!" ~Solomon Gorge~
Lucian Bane
#21. Matthew would not like this, she had said. He would have liked it even less had he know how much Strike had liked it.
Robert Galbraith
#22. Where's Mom? I can't wait to tell her all about this." "She's going to be late. An appointment, I think." "Again?" Jessica pouted. "That makes three nights in a row! I thought mothers were supposed to stay home and fix dinner once in a while!
Francine Pascal
#23. Too often my sister talks like this. She doesn't speak like she's wise for her age, she speaks wise for any age.
Sarah Noffke
#24. And then she leaned back her head with the faintest smile and, tapping her chin, asked, Are you in love with him, this mystery composer? How can I be? I asked in return. I don't even know him. Almost every opera is about this, she said, her smile growing. Love before first sight.
Alexander Chee
#25. And when she's fragile like this, she's a little lost bird looking for ts nest. So i give her my wing to hide under.
Maggie Stiefvater
#26. Why are you making a joke out of this?" she asks.
"Because it's stupid, Nik. There's not even room in my day to think about someone else.
Simone Elkeles
#27. ...they would say 'he said this, he did that', but they would never say 'she said this, she did that'. So I would say, they are sick, and I am well. Pardon me.
Charles Bukowski
#28. She thought she mattered little to him, but in this she was mistaken, as the musician was quite smitten, and not nearly so unattached to her as she supposed, but pride, and also fear, and also style, kept him from asking more of her than she offered up.
Mohsin Hamid
#29. Do you know what they call themselves, all these people?"
Alyss shook her head. How could she know?
"Alyssians." Bibwit spelled it out.
Her heart gave a little jump. Alyssians? No, they ask too much of me. "I don't think I'm ready for all of this," she said.
Frank Beddor
#30. What's this?' she asked. 'Is it a sphinx?'
Yes,' he answered, 'and the sphinx is you.
Ivan Turgenev
#31. There were times when life's problems were convincingly outweighed by its possibilities, and this, she felt, was one.
Alexander McCall Smith
#32. There was a time I would have totally agreed with this," she said softly. "You can be a real wanker sometimes.
Sibylla Matilde
#33. When they confronted her like this, she felt like a delicate freaking time bomb just waiting for a time and a place to explode.
Missy Lyons
#34. One Monday, Donna came in and said that her husband had had a heart attack over the weekend. And, by the way, she didn't open with this. She slipped it in about twenty minutes into her shift.
Tina Fey
#35. Tonight we're going to listen to this." She skips ahead to "Mute Witness" and hits repeat.
"What we do tonight will be stored in this song. Every time I put it on from now on I'll feel exactly like now. So if you die, I can still have you
Gunnar Ardelius
#36. I killed the cheating bastard. Who knows, maybe if I'd done it a few days sooner, I could have prevented all of this. But where would the fun be in that? I would have missed out on all this," she said, taking her hands off the steering wheel spreading her arms wide.
Mark Tufo
#37. When my mother heard about this, she was furious, and she crossed Nellie off her prayer list. My dad put her on his instead, so she didn't miss out.
Jeanette Winterson
#38. And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.
Mark Ruffalo
#39. Her whole body stiffened as with a great and firm resolution. This she meant to do, if God gave her wits and strength.
Emmuska Orczy
#40. The Fourth was perfect. She'd make a ceremony, an event, of this. She had a bad habit of never giving ceremony its due. But sometimes life demanded ceremony. Sometimes you owed that to yourself.
Ellen Airgood
#41. When you model, there's no way you can't notice yourself. Do you know what I mean? Because you're constantly surrounded by people saying, 'Oh, she's too short, she's too skinny, she's this, she's whatever.' And you're right there. They're talking about you, and you're right there.
Cara Delevingne
#42. I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.
Teri Hatcher
#43. One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
Alan Bennett
#44. Reid cleared his throat. Um, I wouldn't challenge her on this. She once shot Johnny in the ass with buckshot when his mom ended up in the clinic and he wouldn't go to visit her.
Eve Langlais
#45. 'What have you done?' I whispered.
She swallowed, and the guilt in her eyes was extinguished by a flare of defiance.
'This,' she said, 'is my ticket to outer space.'
Kenneth Oppel
#46. I didn't know someone could love me like this," she said. "Could love me and love me and love me without ... needing space."
Lincoln wasn't asleep. He rolled on top of her.
"There's no air in space," he said.
Rainbow Rowell
#47. As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.
Rumer Godden
#48. Was it always to be like this? she wondered. A moment of joy followed by a new sorrow?
Soheir Khashoggi
#49. You see this?' she wanted to say to him; 'this tasteless glob of half-masticated rubbery gunk? Well this is the same level as you, maybe higher.
Jamie Holoran
#50. This, she thought, was what love and desperation made you do: say things that were better left unsaid, give yourself away in a million little gestures, a thousand little changes of expression.
Cathy Williams
#51. When had she moved so close? Her brain screamed at her to back away. She would regret this. She already regretted this.
Laura Oliva
#52. I can't do this." She opened her eyes. "I can't do this, Beau." "Why not?" "This can't . . . go anywhere. I'll be leaving soon and - " "So don't. Don't go." She pushed away, and his arms fell. "I have to. It won't be safe here forever.
Denise Hunter
#53. Mama said there would be days like this.She never said it would be day after day,after day!~ Unknown
Candace Mumford
#54. What she had believed was indignation or rage or a deep intolerance for injustice came down to this: she was irreducibly in love with this bewitching planet, this thrilling life, this heartbreaking species she belonged to, with its capacity for stupefying destruction and breathtaking magnanimity.
Thrity Umrigar
#55. But one thing I have to say about Darcy and dating is this: she never blew us off for a guy. She always put her friends first- which is an amazing thing for a high school girl to do.
Emily Giffin
#56. I have a retina scanner and display in my eye. It's like a really small netscreen, so there's a lot of wiring. Oh, stars, I can't believe I'm telling you this." She buried her face in her hands. "It's kind of brilliant," said Kai. She
Marissa Meyer
#57. That woman, as nature has created her and as man is at present educating her, is his enemy. She can only be his slave or his despot, but never his companion. This she can become only when she has the same rights as he, and is his equal in education and wor.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#58. Yeah, that's her. Roly-poly little bitch. Fucked her in the ass the other day and, get this, she shit all over me. I'm talkin', this wasn't no little mess. This was Niagara fuckin' Falls pourin' outta her ass.
Madeline Sheehan
#59. It is simple as this: she has a complicated life and her clothes can't help but show it. It is all part of her unique disheveled glamour.
Megan Abbott
#60. Duff's little moans traveled up her spine, made her head buzz. And another thought grabbed hold: She was doing this. She had the power to do this. THat she could be both completely vulnerable and totally in control was mind-blowing.
Libba Bray
#61. I'm bad at this," she said with a laugh as she glanced up at him. "But I do know that people normally like to talk about themselves."
Laith was enamored. Totally, completely. Utterly. "What do you want to know?"
"Everything." Her gaze slowly lifted to meet his once again.
Donna Grant
#62. If they didn't stop this, she was going to come
embarrassingly quickly.
Possibly even right now.
Not to mention the fact she never let men she barely knew unzip her and suck on her nipples.
Amy Andrews
#63. There is no fix for this. She has to endure it, and somewhere along the line she has to learn to live again. Surviving isn't the goal. Living is. This is a battle between me and her grief, and I'm going to be the last man standing.
Anne Calhoun
#64. And fuck diplomacy. Really, just kick that shit to the curb. This, she thought, is about what I want.
Thea Harrison
#65. Is he always like this?" she said irritably. "Flying by the seat of his pants?"
"Pretty much, yeah." Oliver grinned. "He's not a planner. But he happens to be the best improviser I've ever known.
Elle Kennedy
#66. I'm sorry about this,' she said to the dead woman, 'but I'm gonna need your clothes.
Jacques Antoine
#67. Angus thought about this. She was right. That was why our national conversation was so bad. Courtesy had been abandoned in favour of the put-down, the attack, the calculated sound bite. What sort of national conversation was that? The answer came to him immediately: none.
Alexander McCall Smith
#68. If you move to the West Coast, I will make a gun out of this," she said, drunkenly brandishing a tiny straw before searching the rest of the cluttered table, "and these peanuts and this glass and shoot you in the dick, Will."
I winced at the visual. "Wow-" I began.
"In the dick, Will.
Christina Lauren
#69. When I was a child? Only the nostalgia for those days of utter, absolute irresponsibility, now long gone. But for her (and this she would never have admitted to anyone), those days weren't gone at all. She still felt totally irresponsible.
Francoise Sagan
#70. When my mother gets a prompt 'Do you want to download this?' she's going to say yes. It's disingenuous for Microsoft to give you all of these tools with which to hang yourself, and when you do, then say it's your fault.
Bruce Schneier
#71. If he wouldn't take charge of this, she would. "Take off your clothes.
Savannah Stuart
#72. She knew what desire was - though she didn't know she knew. It was like this: she was starving but not for food, it was a kind of painful taste that rose from the pit of her stomach and made her nipples quiver and her arms empty without an embrace.
Clarice Lispector
#73. You're mine. If they touch you, family or not, I will have to maim them." "And what if I touch them? What happens to me?" "Why would you touch them when you have this?" She let her hands skim her frame. "I'm not worried. Have you so soon forgotten your world now revolves around me?
Eve Langlais
#74. Look,I'll pay you for a cup of coffee and the use of this-" she thumped a hand on the sofa and a soft plume of dust rose up "-thing for the night."
"I don't take in lodgers."
"And you'd probably kick a sick dog if he got in your way," she added evenly.
Nora Roberts
#75. She couldn't help a grin, knowing that she had done this. She had brought this monstrosity back to life. It owed her now and it seemed to know it.
Marissa Meyer
#76. If you find him," she whispered, "when you find my father - give him this." She bent and kissed me, fiercely, gently, then straightened and turned me toward the stone. "Go, Mama," she said, breathless. "I love you. Go!
Diana Gabaldon
#77. If your mother had any idea we were talking about this, she'd skin me alive. I'm not being metaphorical about that. I think she could actually, literally skin me. She gets these wild eyes sometimes. There's Cossack blood in her; I'd bet anything.
Claudia Gray
#78. Drink this," she told her friend.
Jess moaned.
"Do it," Kestrel said, "or you'll be sorry."
"What a lovely bedside manner you have," Sarsine said.
Marie Rutkoski
#79. You're going to need this," she said, and pulled out a condom.
"At some point, we're also going to need a defibrillator and a fire extinguisher."
"Promises, promises.
Nora Roberts
#80. I know ... I will never see or meet her again, because she is just a ghost from my dreams. In spite of this, she remains with me as a spark of hope. Because when she throws herself desperately into my arms and my hands embrace her, for the first and last time in my life I feel true love.
Alexandar Tomov
#81. Katie let the curtain fall back into place. Standing before the window, she felt herself let go of the old world and embrace the new. She would survive this. She would go on. That was all there was to it. She wouldn't give up without a fight. She would do whatever it took to survive.
Rhiannon Frater
#82. So often, she had found herself transported by music. She would get lost, lose herself to the time and fullness of the tones, the way it conjured up air around her as she listened or as she played. But this, she thought, one did not get lost in this music.
One was delivered by it.
Kate Noble
#83. I think certain people like to torture me because they think I've had it easier than I actually have and they think: 'Oh, she's got this, she's got that, she's always had everything perfect,' and it's sooo not true.
Mariah Carey
#84. Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy
Leo Tolstoy
#85. She gathered some brown seaweed and made a flat damp poultice of it, and this she applied to the baby's swollen shoulder, which was as good a remedy as any and probably better than the doctor could have done. But the remedy lacked his authority because it was simple and didn't cost anything.
John Steinbeck
#86. Strangely, she still felt no fear. She thought if she survived this, she would never feel fear again.
Robert Jordan
#87. PPROBLEM: You "forget" to take off your shoes in the house.
SOLUTION: There's no solution to this. She'll divorce you if you don't take off your shoes.
Phil Schwarzmann
#88. Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.
Lauren DeStefano
#89. Embrace this," she snarled, and flung a hidden dagger from her vambrace at his head.
Sarah J. Maas
#90. I don't have to be here to do this, she had told herself, and then she'd let her body become whom it needed to be. Unlike
Sonali Dev
#91. There are those who have. And there are those who have not. It's very simple: the girl had not. Hadn't what? Simply this: she had not. If you get my meaning that's fine. If you don't, it's still fine.
Clarice Lispector
#92. WHY did she do this? She was a terrible drunk texter. All the things she wanted to say to people during the day came out at night, like a vampire.
Harriet Evans
#93. Have you seen the cover of Newsweek? They have Martha Stewart on the cover, but it's not actually Martha. It's a doctored photo. They put Martha's head on a slimmer woman's body. And Martha was very upset about this. She said, 'Hey, if I wanted my face on another woman's body, I'd stay in prison.'
Jay Leno
#94. I hate wearing the helmet but I don't want the humans falling in love with me. They couldn't handle all this." She winked before disappearing into one of the rooms."-Breeze
Laurann Dohner
#95. I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.
Terry Pratchett
#96. It's not that he's the sort of man who gives up and dies; he doesn't want her to think that. But it's actually wrong, all this. She married him. And now he doesn't quite know how to carry on without the tip of her nose in the pit between his throat and his shoulder. That's all. He
Fredrik Backman
#97. Here's what I think," says Jasmine between chattering teeth. "If these humans are stupid enough to go hiking in this - " she gestures to the thick mist swirling around us '-then they deserve to be led into a marsh and drowned.
Rachel Morgan
#98. There were two ways to get through something like this, she finally realized. Being utterly dead inside and completely cold-blooded. Or being 100 percent obsessed with living.
B.G. Harlen
#100. Well, I hate to tell you this," she said, "but your friend is an asshole."
"He's not my friend," said Simon. "And I couldn't agree with you more, actually."
-Maia & Simon about Jace, pg.49-
Cassandra Clare
