When She Quotes

#1. It was a puzzle to her, how eagerly she'd rushed into life when she was eighteen or twenty, and in what a desultory fashion it had dragged out ever since.

Anna Quindlen

#2. Grandma sees these things when she talks about them and gestures with her hands like she's painting brush strokes in the air. The way Grandma paints her dreams for me, there's a low sky.

Heidi W. Durrow

#3. Well, she thought, I'm certainly bright. She had wanted to meet a new boy and when she finally did meet one she didn't even find out his name

Beverly Cleary

#4. Not the kind of girl to break up and get back together on a whim; once she's decided something, that's it. There's no waffling, no regrets. It's like she said: when she's done, she's just done.

Jenny Han

#5. Rachel tried to slap Mrs. Samuels when she said this, but she wasn't really sure where her face was and she missed, terribly.

Daniel Wallace

#6. It was a little thing, a baby tree, but still it tangled with things around it and required care to move. And when she pulled it out, it's roots still clung to Earth from it's old home.

Ally Condie

#7. I'm a dude, obviously, and when I'm not in a relationship, I don't do laundry until I want to. But if I live with a girl, you have to do it when she wants to or when we want to, which sucks.

Chris D'Elia

#8. My wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along. With the first baby, when she cried, we'd think, Oh my God, what do we do now? But with Finley, our fourth - he's the easiest baby ever, and I think that has a lot to do with the fact that we're much more relaxed these days.

Chris O'Donnell

#9. Nevertheless, seeing him made Cinder both warm with longing and miserable when she thought of the last few moments she'd seen him. Her,

Marissa Meyer

#10. There was a little girl,
When she was good, she was very, very good.
But when she was bad, she was horrid.

Jun Mochizuki

#11. My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.'

Archie Panjabi

#12. It's simply, gentlemen" - and when she raised her dark eyes they had a slight sheen in them - "I would so like something useful to do.

Gail Carriger

#13. I remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like a loss, like I was falling, falling into nothing, how it clenched me up and made me want to weep, made me actually weep.

Patrick Ness

#14. I love that I have my own business and I can't wait to tell Charlie when she's old enough that I did it all with her as my inspiration.-Carla Palmer, Cheekie Charlie

Holly Hurd

#15. True love is a developed and intense appreciation for someone. It's that perfect awareness that you are finally whole when she's with you, and that hollow incompleteness you suffer when she's gone.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#16. When a peasant has a baby girl, the family puts up a vegetable every year and gives the jars to her when she's married. This

Mark Kurlansky

#17. Rachel's face was still looking at Mathilde from the dark when she went back upstairs. The marital suite, the bed obscene in its empty enormity. In her absence, the sheets had been changed. When she climbed in again, they were cool and smelled like lavender and brushed her skin like accusations.

Lauren Groff

#18. I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.

Conor Oberst

#19. In Sarah Palin's new book, she says when she first laid eyes on her future husband, she said out loud, 'Thank you, God,' which is the same thing the Democrats said when they first laid eyes on Sarah Palin.

Conan O'Brien

#20. I always secretly loved the art of makeup as a child. I would come up with stories and characters and try on my mom's Maybelline eyeliner when she wasn't home. It was a very old-school pencil - you had to burn the tip to make it smudgy enough to use.

Michelle Phan

#21. You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life, - Mecho

David Baldacci

#22. Mom's smiles were so full of feeling that people leaned back a little when she greeted them. It was hard to know just how much was being offered.

Aimee Bender

#23. Hillary Clinton is trying an entirely different approach with Iowa than the one she tried eight years ago when she lost there. She will not start speeches by saying, 'Hello, Iowa, or Idaho, or whichever one you are.'

Conan O'Brien

#24. But when she finally did look up, I realized my fatal mistake. That by not leaping for her when she jumped, she thought that I no longer wanted to catch her.

Shelly Crane

#25. Sojourner [Truth]'s life exemplifies the process that occurs within ourselves as we grow to understand that we hold the authority to shape our own lives. This inner authority came when she embraced all of herself, which enabled her to speak from an authentic voice.

Helen LaKelly Hunt

#26. A man truly falls in love with a woman from a distance, as an observer, as a spectator taking in her true essence when she is unguarded, when she is wholly and honestly unaware of his attention. And she was.

Paul Cwalina

#27. Now he was the Carswell Thorne who had given her strength in the desert. Who had come for her when she was kidnapped. Who had kissed her when hope was lost and death was imminent. Thorne

Marissa Meyer

#28. She was with Jude so rarely that when she was, every cell of her body rang with grateful knowledge of it.

Emma Donoghue

#29. It is better for a girl to marry in such a time when she would begin menstruation at her husband's house rather than her father's home. Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven.

Ruhollah Khomeini

#30. She reminded me of the sea; the way she came dancing towards you, wild and beautiful, and just when she was almost close enough to touch she'd rush away again.

Glenda Millard

#31. When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better
her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties

Virginia Woolf

#32. It is then, when she releases her need to understand, that everything falls into place.

Amy Zhang

#33. ...but an amiable handsome baronet, who said 'Exactly' to her remarks even when she expressed uncertainty, - how could he affect her as a lover?

George Elliot

#34. "How many girls do you kiss against cars?" asked Echo in a clipped manner.
My mouth gaped, but no sound came out. Rico and his two cousins cackled at my expression. I snapped it shut when Echo winked. Damn, I loved it when she dished it back.

Katie McGarry

#35. She fizzed when she smiled.

Dorothy Koomson

#36. Once upon a time she had liked to dance. When she had been about the same age as the little brunette out there who kept lifting her dress up over her head. Now that was living. Just lift your dress if you wanted to get down and don't worry what anyone thought.

Erin McCarthy

#37. If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Austin O'Malley

#38. Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past.

Greg Iles

#39. The lady hasn't lost it yet - the sound of freedom. When she laughs, you can hear the wind in the trees and the splash of water hitting pavement. You can sense the gentle caress of rain on your face and how laughter sounds in the open air, all the things those of us in this dungeon can never feel.

Rene Denfeld

#40. I though, So this is how they send the angel. Stalled at the age when she loved you most.

Nicole Krauss

#41. Do you think that Asian girl over there is pretty? I ask Abram, testing him, wondering if I'm really his type, or if I'm just his type until that rare breed of slutty Asian drops into his lap.
Only when she lets me cheat off of her, he answers.

Jay Clark

#42. Henry's face grows pink, pinker than those ridiculous bras Mom recently left on my bed when she decided I needed something more feminine than a sports bra.

Miranda Kenneally

#43. When she had first held Jacob in her arms and pressed her lips to his tender, fragile scalp, it had felt as though she were being brought back to life, like a wilting plant being watered.

Liane Moriarty

#44. Never show a weakness; never show pain. The vulnerable get eaten. She would break down later when she was alone, but neither he nor anyone else would ever see it.

Ilona Andrews

#45. When she was taken too bad she went off quite alone to the sea-shore, so that the customs officer, going his rounds, often found her lying flat on her face, crying on the shingle. Then, after her marriage, it went off, they say." "But with me," replied Emma, "it was after marriage that it began.

Gustave Flaubert

#46. There were moments bristling with deadness, when she looked out at her life and went, "What?" Or worse, feeling interrupted and tired, "Wha - ?

Lorrie Moore

#47. She made me smile on days that laughter seemed impossible. She made me see hope in things I didn't know existed. That was when she truly became my Estelle. She just didn't know it. Hell, neither did I.

Claire Contreras

#48. I turn over and lie flat on my back,staring at the ceiling. When she slept beside me, I slept well. I need her in my life, in my bed. She was the day to my night. I'm going to get her back.

E.L. James

#49. As she'd left, I'd glanced at her gun.
This time, when she'd pointed it at me, she'd flicked the safety on. If that wasn't true love, I don't know what was.

Brandon Sanderson

#50. Then Dad started going on about the complex geological formations in this part of the coast until Mum told him to shut up. But she was smiling when she said it. Lucy liked that.

Kerrie O'Connor

#51. When she would walk, it was like rhythm. The guys' heads would bounce, but I wouldn't look because I was married.

Angelo Dundee

#52. I want a girl who looks good when she wakes up in the morning. We could take her face and dip it in dough and she'll make some nice-face cookies. Some girls wake up, man, you could put their face in dough and you'll get a gorilla cookie, for real!

Flavor Flav

#53. Pete- What does a woman want out of marriage?
Louisa- Undying devotion and a warm place to put her cold feet when she gets into bed at night.

Janet Evanovich

#54. She was italicising every other word, with that deadly, glittering brightness that a woman puts on when she is dodging a moral obligation. He

George Orwell

#55. And when she cums she screams and she throws a pillow across the room, it goes out the window, over the balcony.

Caroline Kepnes

#56. Well, see, there's this cave in Switzerland I really need to find.' She slipped on her sunglasses; was already in the middle of the street when she turned and looked back at Hale and Gabrielle. 'You coming?

Ally Carter

#57. When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.

Junot Diaz

#58. Women liked Strike - she had come to realize that over the months they had worked together. She had not understood the appeal when she had started working for him. He was so very different from Matthew.

Robert Galbraith

#59. When she awakes, she knows where she is. This place, this ancient place sears one's soul with recognition. 'Heaven' seems an inadequate word for it, but that is what it is known as.

Victoria Kahler

#60. Bless her heart, she must've been drinking when she bought that dress. He

Nora Roberts

#61. She laughed, I love it when she laughs, although the truth is I am not in love with her.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#62. And when she [her daughter] one day turns on me and calls me a
Bitch in front of Hollister,
Give me the strength, Lord, to yank her directly into a
cab in front of her friends,
For I will not have that Shit. I will not have it.

Tina Fey

#63. I like to do things for my wife on Valentine's Day. I open the door for her when she puts laundry in the washing machine.

Milton Berle

#64. My style icons were Gwen Stefani, when she was in No Doubt, and then Shirley Manson in Garbage.

Katy Perry

#65. The Girauds' child was looking more and more like a problem.
Luke pressed his lips into a thin line. When she'd leaned in the stagecoach blazing with fervor over what was in the arcane books, it had taken all his willpower not to throw a bolt of magic to stop her heart.

Ann Gimpel

#66. I wasn't there when she needed me, and that eats me alive every damn day. After

Jackson Kane

#67. He turned. "She would never marry for wordly advantage."
"Yet when she experiences the consequence she gains in such a marriage, she will feel compensated for giving up her freedom!"
"Her freedom!"
"I think her much at liberty.

Helen Halstead

#68. We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.

Jaye Davidson

#69. Even when she slept, she tossed and turned and squirmed, like she was secretly a hurricane forced into a girl-body and told to exist as best she could among people who had no idea what it meant to secretly be a weather pattern.

Seanan McGuire

#70. There comes a time in every Salome's life when she should no longer be dropping the last veil.

Harvey Fierstein

#71. Another scandal for Hillary Clinton - they're saying she used a private email address when she was secretary of state, which means the government couldn't archive and preserve her emails. Then Obama said, 'Don't worry, we saw them. We see everyone's emails.'

Jimmy Fallon

#72. I'm jealous of the daylight that will get to see her eyes when she wakes.

Evie Harper

#73. A lovely fatigue claimed him. He lay down on the grass and listened. He thought about how Kestrel had slept on the palace lawn and dreamed of him. When she had told him this, he'd wished that it had been real. He tried to imagine the dream, then found himself dreaming.

Marie Rutkoski

#74. Loveliest of any blossoming thing to her was that green stalk with its white bells. White was the most beautiful color she knew. Yet when she would say that to Amos he would remind her that the brown of the earth from which the flowers came was a good color too.

Elizabeth Yates

#75. She must have been a nurse. She looked a few years older than me. Pretty. Naturally pretty, the type that's still attractive, even more so, when she's filthy.

Ruta Sepetys

#76. You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.'
How?'
Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.

Jodi Picoult

#77. I'm playing a powerhouse singer who is big competition, but she's also really down to earth and sweet. But the whole sweet thing goes away when she's in competition mode. I love the show, so I'm very excited to be a part of it. I'm going to kill it on 'Glee!'

Jessica Sanchez

#78. My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

Jack White

#79. Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.

Barbara Cartland

#80. Your manager wants to believe that you enjoy your job, or at least you won't spit in her coffee when she looks away. At the office, attitude counts for a lot.

Terri Tierney Clark

#81. Even so, [ ... in the silence after a winter storm has ceased to howl, in the soft whisper of a morning snowfall, in the way the moonlight sparkles over new-fallen snow, you can feel when she has been near by, ever searching. You can sense the presence of the Winter Child.

Cameron Dokey

#82. My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four human generations ago - there were still enough wild bison on the Plains that she was afraid lightning storms would spook them and they would trample her home.

Derrick Jensen

#83. I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.

Daisy Ridley

#84. Jackie O was so capable in so many ways. Hillary tried to redefine the role when she got into public policy, and Michelle Obama is able to move smoothly between form and function, style and substance.

Bellamy Young

#85. Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.

John Steinbeck

#86. Seriously, men." Gina scowls when she turns back to us. "We're royalty when they want to fuck. Thrilled to have as much sex as their anatomy allows, and then we're nothing.
Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.

Katy Evans

#87. She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.

Ann Brashares

#88. Carli Fiorina says companies are consolidating because it's the only way to compete with big, corrupt government. "This is how socialism starts." Is that also why she bought Compaq when she was CEO of Hewlett-Packard?

Kevin Drum

#89. Marilyn Monroe seemed to have a kind of unconscious glow about her physical self that was innocent, like a child. When she posed nude, it was 'Gee, I am kind of, you know, sort of dishy,' like she enjoyed it without being egotistical.

Elizabeth Taylor

#90. My sorrow, when she's here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be.

Robert Frost

#91. So, I remember when I was a kid, I was waiting for my mom to come home when she was working late, and, you know, I was like, 'Oh my God, what happened to her? Is she OK? Did something happen to her getting in the car?' I was a little kid. But those are actually early onsets of anxiety.

Vinny Guadagnino

#92. I became lost in her face when she orgasmed around my cock, felt the warmth of her smile when we shared a joke.

Alessandra Torre

#93. However, she was horrified the following morning when she opened the Daily Mail at breakfast. The leading article was headed THE HUNS MUST PAY. The paper argued that food aid should be sent to Germany - only because "if Germany were starved to death she could not pay what she owes.

Ken Follett

#94. There's this guy in my club, Pigpen. He's about the same age as Ms. Whitlock, late twenties, and he's a walking hard-on for this woman even though she would never give him the time of day. He practically runs into walls when she's around because he's too focused on checking her out.

Katie McGarry

#95. But make no mistake about it, Jordan. When the time is right and you're ready" - he trailed his forefinger along the edge of her palm and stilled when she shivered in response - "I have every intention of getting you into bed. And sleeping will have little to do with it.

Sara Humphreys

#96. The most sexy trait in a woman is- when she starts taking the world by a storm!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#97. Often when she thought she was reading his body

Greg Egan

#98. Sleep is a very capricious goddess, and it is precisely when she is invoked that she delays coming.
- Page 184

Alexandre Dumas

#99. When she asks, I have to say that Yes, I do like my lifestyle. I couldn't bare to devote any more thought to the question.

Wesley Eisold

#100. It was disconcerting when she asked questions that no one answered. That way lay madness.

K.F. Breene