Top 100 Tillie's Quotes
#1. He just looked at her as if she were an idiot. Or a woman. It was Tillie's experience that most men thought they were one and the same.
Julia Quinn
#2. love was simply the tenacity to make sure that the other half of your heart knew he, or she, was adored in every way.
Tillie Cole
#3. It only took Romeo one look at Juliet and his fate was sealed. Maybe I'm just like my namesake, and maybe you're just like yours.
Tillie Cole
#4. It's me babe... Ain't no other man for you... but me.
Tillie Cole
#5. A toast... to taking a chance, because that chance taken may be the very path that leads you to your happily ever after.
Tillie Cole
#6. When you're near, my heart doesn't sigh, it soars,
Tillie Cole
#7. Eventually, something or someone will come along in your life to show you that what other people think don't matter. You'll find the strength to not let what people say affect you in quite the same way.
Tillie Cole
#8. That's because we were never apart. Since we were kids, we were one. It has always been that way. We found a way back to each other, my love."
Luka's eyes bored into mine, a flare of possession in their glare. "And will always be that way," he said assertively. "I'm never losing you again.
Tillie Cole
#9. More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible
Tillie Olsen
#10. My thighs ached from the force of his grip. My back
Tillie Cole
#11. My mama's white and my papa is black. I'm your worst fucking nightmare,
Tillie Cole
#12. I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.
Tillie Olsen
#13. For believers in true, epic, soul-shattering love. This one's for you.
Tillie Cole
#14. He kissed me until there was no part of me that didn't know who it belonged to. He kissed me until my heart again fused with his - two halves of one whole.
Tillie Cole
#15. We were always fated to be together. He is my everything. He is my entire world...
...Styx is my salvation.
Tillie Cole
#16. Why the war paint, Pix?
Because I can't stand the girl underneath....
"Why the tattoos ?"
Because I can't bear seeing the scars of my past.
Tillie Cole
#17. I t-tried to stay away, do the right thing. B-because I ain't no go for you. But f*uck, I want you so b-bad I feel like I- I c-can't breathe. Can't p-push you away n-no more. Need to have you c-close.
Tillie Cole
#18. Inessa," he said in a husky voice, "without you here with me, I'd rather be dead. With you in my heart, and me in yours, I am alive.
Tillie Cole
#19. And that is when I knew. I knew that what I was feeling was love. It had to be. Because it was all-encompassing and irrational, yet at the same time it felt so perfect and true.
Tillie Cole
#20. He was my very own forbidden fruit, one of which I had to keep far far away.
Tillie Cole
#21. You, Molly Shakespeare, have just publicly made out with the most desirable guy on campus. A guy that never commits to anyone. A guy that other guys are shit scared of and girls would gladly give a lung for.
Tillie Cole
#22. You have light within you, Styx, and I feel it shining through like the rays of the midday sun. It is beautiful. You are a good man.
Tillie Cole
#23. What in me demanded that goodness in her? And what was the cost, the cost to her of such goodness?
Tillie Olsen
#24. I want you to show me what being with a man should be like. What giving my body and soul to you should be like.
Tillie Cole
#25. Then that fuckin' nose twitched again. And I sank back into my woman... a pair of wolf eyes bringing me home.
Tillie Cole
#26. She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.
Tillie Olsen
#27. And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
Tillie Olsen
#28. Just try and live. Try and be happy. Or else, what's the fucking point?
Tillie Cole
#29. I think hearts beat a rhythm like a song. I think, that just like music, we're drawn to a particular melody. I heard your heart's song, and yours heard mine.
Tillie Cole
#30. I'm changed; she's changed me. I'm under her damn spell and I sure as shit don't wanna get out.
Tillie Cole
#31. Why be miserable when you can be happy? It's an obvious choice to me.
Tillie Cole
#32. Why does any human want anyone? My body recognises you as something that's good for me. My mind recognises you as someone who's right for me, and my soul recognises you as someone who is meant for me.
Tillie Cole
#33. Hey Mol.
Hey You.
You gonna give up that lucky sweet kiss?
If that's what you want.
It most definitely is.
Tillie Cole
#34. The soothing vocals of "Ave Maria" serenaded from the small speaker, and Austin looked at me and shrugged in embarrassment. "It makes her smile," was all he said. I lost a piece of my heart to him right then.
Tillie Cole
#35. We're star crossed, Shakespeare. Fateful star-crossed lovers. We have a lifetime to get to know each other, unlike our namesakes. I'll makes sure we get our happily ever after.
Tillie Cole
#36. Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.
Tillie Olsen
#37. I want to understand you, Maddie. I want to understand your world.
Tillie Cole
#38. A home is not a place. It's not a country or a town or a building or possession. Home is with the other half of your soul, the person who shares in your grief and helps you carry the burden of loss. Home is with the person who throughout it all never gives up on you and brings you eternal happiness.
Tillie Cole
#39. To me it appears that you have simply exchanged one controlling environment for another. I am worried that you are not free here at all. You have simply been given a greater cage in which to roam." My
Tillie Cole
#40. You can have me, solnyshko. You can have all of me. You always have, and you always will.
Tillie Cole
#41. It was for the best," she said gently. "I wanted no beauty. I needed no more beauty." "I
Tillie Cole
#42. Luka had a kind smile and the most beautiful dark-brown eyes. But it was Luka's upper left Iris smudged with a small splash of blue that made our mothers think we were destined to be. Mama said God placed a piece of my eye within his so we would always know we shared one soul.
Tillie Cole
#43. I came to college to study, Cass, not to whore myself out to drunken frat boys!"
She gaffawed. "Whatever, darlin', you won't be thinking of studying when your ankles are wrapped 'round some stud's neck as he wears you like a necklace, tickling your belly button from the inside!
Tillie Cole
#44. Gotta take life by the balls at some point and squeeze those fuckers with the skill of a whore.
Tillie Cole
#45. I have come to understand that death, for the sick, is not so hard to endure. For us, eventually, our pain ends, we go to a better place. But for those left behind, their pain only magnifies." Poppy
Tillie Cole
#46. I had no idea how to live a day without her next to me. How to breathe without her by my side.
Tillie Cole
#47. I have only ever liked one boy in my life. I have only wanted one man to have as my own. I have only ever had one dream since I was eight. Styx, the dream is you. You stole my heart fifteen yes ago and you still haven't given it back.
Tillie Cole
#48. This isn't the end. It's just a little pause in our lives. And I'll be watching over you, every single day. I'll be in your heart. I'll be in the blossom grove that we love so much, in the sun and the wind.
Tillie Cole
#49. Be critical. Women have the right to say: This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.
Tillie Olsen
#50. You're not the only one who feels like splitting when times get rough, baby, but from now on, I won't let you run anywhere if I'm not right there running beside you.
Tillie Cole
#51. Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.
Tillie Olsen
#52. Not to have an audience is a kind of death.
Tillie Olsen
#53. We were both just too messed up to ever be with each other in the way we needed to be. Two shooting stars that burned out too quickly, never quite reaching each other's skies.
Tillie Cole
#54. But now, when he smiles at you, his eyes smile too
Tillie Cole
#55. I love you, Li. You're mine. My woman. My property. My fuckin' old lady...my fuckin' forever.
Tillie Cole
#56. No talking baby," I whispered as my lips closed in on hers. "I'm gonna kiss you now and I'm gonna show you how fuckin' good it feels.
Tillie Cole
#57. This day would bring only one of two possible outcomes: liberty or death. I faced both with a smile on my face. The
Tillie Cole
#58. The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
Tillie Olsen
#60. It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.
Tillie Olsen
#61. Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.
Tillie Olsen
#63. It takes an awfully good man ... to beat no man at all. - Tillie
Tamera Alexander
#65. I know I'm different. I know I don't see the world like everyone else does. But I want to see your world, Maddie. Even if it's the only one I'll ever understand.
Tillie Cole
#66. We are Flame and Maddie. And we have survived.
Tillie Cole
#67. It's funny. I used to look up at the stars and feel so small and unimportant. But I've come to realize that the only thing that can ever make you feel alive and important is the one person who takes you for you.
Tillie Cole
#68. Once upon a time there were three little sisters,' the Dormouse began in a great hurry; 'and their names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well
' 'What did they live on?' said Alice, who always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking.
Lewis Carroll
#69. Famiglia isn't always blood, mio caro. Famiglia is built on bridges of love. Famiglia is there for you without condition. Famiglia supports you in your darkest moment of need.
Tillie Cole
#70. I'm gonna love you with all these scars, with this sexy-as-fuck- short hair. However the fuck you look, wearing a damn Glad bag if you want. I'm in this with you 'til the very end.
Tillie Cole
#71. Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.
Tillie Olsen
#72. But none of them are you." Luka pointed to his eye again. "We match. Why would I want anyone else? Nobody else if you. Long brown hair, blue eyes and tanned skinned beautiful you.
Tillie Cole
#73. One day, my sweet girl, some lucky man will come and help you understand the very meaning of love. He will sweep you off your feet and show you what it is to place your heart in someone else's care to willingly offer them the gift of your soul.
Tillie Cole
#74. He had taken a piece of my tainted soul...of my heart...and made him a part of me. He was in my every cell, my conscience. He was simply part of me.
Tillie Cole
#75. because sometimes all we get are moments. There are no do-overs; whatever happens in a moment defines life - perhaps it is life.
Tillie Cole
#76. I get so lonely that at times, I literally think it might kill me.
Tillie Cole
#77. Tillie Olsen. James Joyce. Robert Stone. I must have read Updike's Rabbit, Run five times and Bellow's Herzog
Pamela Paul
#78. What challenges us, what should break us, can in the end be our greatest blessing. Because our failures can make us great. Our most basic of human adversities can inspire within us an almost superhuman strength. Our weaknesses are simply our untested wings waiting to be flown.
Tillie Cole
#79. That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks ...
Tillie Olsen
#80. I am so proud of you, Flame," she whispered, and I felt my chest get tight again. "Just when I believe I could not love you even more, you go and prove me wrong." "I love you too," I said and kissed her head.
Tillie Cole
#81. As they say in Hollywood, that's a wrap! And the oscar goes to Tudor North and Tash Munro for an outstanding debut performance in a sex scene!
Tillie Cole
#82. I had learned of late that someone who appears wicked on the outside, may actually turn out to possess the kindest soul of all. Flame projected violence and hate, but when he looked upon Maddie, you could see nothing but adoration in his stare.
Tillie Cole
#83. There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.
Tillie Olsen
#84. I was wrong. So damn wrong. You need a strong man, babe. You need a man to love you, to protect you, to be your fuckin' world." Her breath paused and I smirked. "It's me, babe. It's so fuckin' me.
Tillie Cole
#85. For the first time in my life, I feel wanted... like I finally belong. There is nowhere on Earth I would rather be than here with you. You do not cage me, Styx. You make me soar.
Tillie Cole
#86. It is my eternal right to love you. And I will fight for that right until the sun sets on my life.
Tillie Cole
#87. Tillie studied her mother's face. The face which had seen thirty-seven years of life. Twenty-one years of marriage. The birth of ten babies. The death of one.
Deeanne Gist
#88. But I didn't bother looking up. What the fuck were the stars and moon, when I had her? I couldn't take my eyes off her. I could barely fucking breathe.
Tillie Cole
#89. My heart slammed in my chest. "Yeah. The most beautiful," I answered.
Tillie Cole
#90. This is the whistle-stop memoir of how a lower-middle-class girl from the north of England one day changed the way she lived her life and set off on a bumpy path that ultimately led her to her own slice of the happily-ever-after pie.
Tillie Cole
#91. It is a long Baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion and in pain than to live untouched. Yet how will you sustain?
Tillie Olsen
#93. Underneath the scars, the muscles, and the tattoos was a hurt and lost man.
Tillie Cole
#94. Just like your picture, Maddie. I'm holding you just like your sketch.
Tillie Cole
#95. He was living, breathing poetry. Not love poetry, but the poetry which tears out your heart, rips it to shreds, pushes it back into your chest, and makes you question what the hell just obliterated your soul.
Tillie Cole
#96. Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.
Tillie Olsen
#98. A bashful smile ghosted his lips and his tense shoulders relaxed. "We're in fuckin' deep, aren't we, Shakespeare?
Tillie Cole
#100. And tomorrow night, my two loves-one pure yet broken and the other so dark that I now realized I didn't know him at all-they would fight to the death.
Tillie Cole
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