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Sherry Thomas Quotes | Quotes said by Sherry Thomas

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #1

    ...So far I have restrained myself. For how much longer, I do not know.
    I have never known such happiness, shot through with such misery. Only four days have passed, they tell me. But that is not true. It has been decades since I saw
    you last.
    You will find me a stooped old man when we meet again. Perhaps I might even need a pair of spectacles to recognize your veil.
    But I remain always,
    Your servant,
    C.

    One of Christian's onesided letters to the Baroness


  • Sherry Thomas Quote #2

    As a youth, I listened to the rain from the bowers of pleasure houses,
    Red silk drapes translucent in the glow of candlelight.
    In my prime, I listened to the rain as a traveler,
    The sky low, the river broad, the calls of the wild geese harsh and cold.
    Now, grey at the temples, I listen to the rain beneath the eaves of an abandoned cloister.
    Has mine been a futile life?
    I have no answers, only the sound of raindrops upon worn stone steps,
    And long hours yet to pass before the light of dawn.

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #3

    Don't worry, darling. I'll look out for myself. And I've reached an age when I have no problem telling someone to fuck off.

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #4

    Even the boy who cried wolf as right about the wolf once.

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #5

    Even they would think you a monster were you to
    orchestrate a divorce right after my confinement.”
    “How long do you recommend I wait, then?”
    “A long time. I know what happens when a divorce is granted:
    The woman never gets anything. And I will not be parted from my child.”
    “So you will contest the divorce?”
    “To my last penny. And then I’ll borrow from Fitz and Millie.”
    “So we’ll be married ’til the end of time?”
    “The sooner you accept it, the sooner we are all better off.”
    His ancestors would have appreciated her hauteur: a fit wife for a de Montfort. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I must have enough rest.”
    He gazed at her retreating back. Foolish woman, did she not realize that he’d already accepted it from the moment he’d said “I do”?

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #6

    Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn't be interesting.

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #7

    For the next three seconds, he still dared to let himself hope.
    Perhaps she was making a grand entrance. Perhaps she would be carried in like Cleopatra, hidden in a roll of fine carpet.
    Perhaps—
    Three porters, grunting, pulled in a handcart.
    A crevasse opened before him and in fell his heart. No need to remove the tarpaulin wrapping. He recognized the stone slab
    by its size and weight.
    She had returned his present. She would have nothing more to do with him.

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #8

    For what is the Void but the beginning of Light? What is Light but the end of Fear? And what am I, but Light given from? What am I, but the beginning of Eternity?

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #9

    Fortune favors the brave.

    Another moment of silence. And then, Iolanthe found herself shouting at the top of her lungs, her voice nearly drowned by the bellow of all the rebels present, And the brave make their own fortune!

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #10

    He wanted to make cast models of her. He wanted to take a set of precision calipers and measure every distance between her features. He wanted her blood and glandular fluids analyzed by the finest chemists in the world—there must be something detectibly different in her inner workings for him to respond so dramatically, as if he’d been given a drug for which science had yet to find a name.
    But more than anything, he wanted to—

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #11

    He’d never encountered beauty of such magnitude and intensity. It was not allure, but grace, like the sight of land to a shipwrecked man. And he, who hadn’t been on a capsized vessel since he was six—and that had only been an overturned canoe—suddenly felt as if he’d been adrift in the open ocean his entire life.

    Someone spoke to him. He couldn’t make out a single word.

    There was something elemental to her beauty, like a mile-high thunderhead, a gathering avalanche, or a Bengal tiger prowling the darkness of the jungle. A phenomenon of inherent danger and overwhelming perfection.

    He felt a sharp, sweet ache in his chest: His life would never again be complete without her. But he felt no fear, only excitement, wonder, and desire.

    Christian's thoughts upon seeing Venetia for the first time (Beguiling the Beauty, Fitzhugh Trilogy 1, by Sherry Thomas)

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #12

    Her jaw dropped. She grabbed him by the shoulders. “I think I have formed an attachment to you. You know, what the English call a desire to have symphonic concerts with someone at all hours of the day?”
    He smiled. “And I love you too, darling.”

    -Lizzy and Will

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #13

    I beg you to exercise wisdom and restraint and remember that not all opportunities are created equal. Some are nothing but steps leading down toward catastrophe.

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #14

    I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #15

    I wonder now how we got by when you weren't here.
    I have no doubt the devastation was widespread, the suffering universal.
    Indeed, it was the Dark Ages in the annals of Mrs. Dawlish's house. Ignorance was thick on the ground, and unenlkghtenment befogged all the windows.

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #16

    I’ve always loved you,” he said, his eyes a blue that was almost violet. “You know this.” She swallowed a lump in her throat. “I only wonder whether I deserve such devotion.”
    “Sometimes people fall in love with those who do not return the same strength of feelings. It is as it is,” he said with a quiet intensity. “What I give, I give freely. You owe me nothing, not love, not friendship, not even obligation.

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #17

    It doesn’t matter where I am; I’m yours.

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #18

    Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn’t know my name and barely knew my face.

    - Leo

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #19

    Outwardly, other than her hair, she had not changed much. She was still more or less the same cool, aloof woman who garnered more respect than affection. On the inside, however, it had been impossible to return to the person she used to be.

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #20

    Perhaps you forgave him too much, but who among us would not wish to be so generously loved and generously forgiven?

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #21

    Some lovers were fortunate enough to grow old together. They’d grown old apart. She did not think him any less handsome. She only wished that she’d been there when the first line on his face had appeared, so that she could have stroked and kissed and cherished it.

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #22

    Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #23

    The explanation for her absence had been staring him in the face all the while, but he hadn’t wanted to acknowledge it: The affair meant nothing to her. He’d been the only one bewitched body and soul. For her, he’d been but a temporary source of entertainment, a way to pass the otherwise tedious hours in the middle of an ocean.
    He’d been the one to press for a continuation of their affair beyond the voyage. He’d been the one to offer his heart, his hand, his every last secret. She never even gave her real name.
    And, of course, never showed her face.

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #24

    The next minute he realized what had happened to him, but not before she’d caught him staring.
    For a decade, I was fixated by her beauty. I wrote an entire article on the evolutionary significance of beauty as a rebuke to myself, that I, who understood the concepts so well, nevertheless could not escape the magnetic pull of one particular woman’s beauty.
    She knew. With surgical precision, she had peeled back his layers of defenses, until his heart lay bare before her, all its shame and yearning exposed.
    He could have lived with this if only he’d kept his secret whole and buried. But she knew. She knew.

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #25

    The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #26

    There was no such thing as a marriage with one happy spouse. Both must be or neither.

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #27

    To the beginning of the rest of our lives.

    - Leo

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #28

    Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it.

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #29

    You are asking me to give up everything for a cause that isn't mine. I don't want to be part of any revolution. I just want to live.

  • Sherry Thomas Quote #30

    You can live forever for me.

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